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Local Groups in North America

Canada

Ottawa 103 members Quebec 40 members Toronto 570 members Montreal 243 members Vancouver 258 members Mississauga 69 members Vaughan 41 members Calgary 97 members Halifax 25 members Hamilton 29 members Edmonton 41 members Victoria 32 members Waterloo 47 members Kitchener 40 members Regina 5 members

Costa Rica

San Jose 120 members

Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo 51 members

Mexico

Puebla 33 members Mexico D.F. 373 members Guadalajara 98 members Estado de Mexico 50 members Monterrey 95 members Zapopan 42 members Queretaro 40 members Merida 11 members Cancun 5 members Tijuana 16 members Mexicali 3 members Chihuahua 2 members

Panama

Panama 22 members

United States

San Jose 225 members Baltimore 81 members San Francisco 537 members New York City 959 members Alexandria 100 members Chicago 359 members Minneapolis 136 members Tempe 97 members Pittsburgh 69 members Salt Lake City 90 members Boston 327 members Tampa 69 members Birmingham 29 members Austin 204 members Charlotte 121 members Seattle 320 members Atlanta 221 members Los Angeles 306 members Ann Arbor 70 members Troy 26 members Madison 93 members San Diego 162 members Houston 122 members Columbus 75 members Cincinnati 64 members Orlando 94 members Sacramento 50 members Indianapolis 61 members Detroit 83 members Denver 177 members Washington 166 members Portland 154 members Dallas 190 members Cary 90 members Mitchell 2 members Louisville 37 members Rochester Minnesota 3 members Las Vegas 28 members Jersey City 104 members San Mateo 58 members St. Louis 59 members Jacksonville 32 members Rochester 43 members Pensacola 14 members Oklahoma City 27 members Columbia 29 members Oakland 142 members Spokane 18 members Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia) 3 members Omaha and Lincoln 30 members Irvine 110 members Fort Wayne 13 members Colorado Springs 28 members Albuquerque 19 members Philadelphia 148 members Northern Virginia (Dulles) 77 members Des Moines 40 members Cleveland 50 members South Florida 113 members Portland 18 members Knoxville 32 members NW Arkansas 22 members Boise 76 members Raleigh 18 members Asbury Park 13 members

Local Groups in Africa

Botswana

Gaborone 5 members

Cameroon

Douala 3 members

Egypt

Alexandria 51 members Cairo 197 members Minofiya 10 members

Ghana

Accra 20 members

Kenya

Nairobi 61 members

Mauritius

Quatre-Bornes 5 members

Morocco

Rabat 26 members Casablanca 40 members Agadir 2 members

Mozambique

Maputo 3 members

Nigeria

Abuja 35 members Lagos 179 members Port Harcourt 11 members Kaduna 7 members Ibadan 8 members Warri 3 members

Rwanda

Kigali 6 members

South Africa

Cape Town 171 members Pretoria 115 members Johannesburg 265 members Durban 22 members Port Elizabeth 7 members Bloemfontein 4 members Mossel Bay 7 members Stellenbosch 25 members

Tunisia

Gabes 8 members

Uganda

Kampala 7 members

Local Groups in Asia

Armenia

Yerevan 76 members

Azerbaijan

Baku 36 members

Bangladesh

Dhaka 64 members Bangladesh 56 members

China

Beijing 30 members Hangzhou 5 members Shanghai 57 members Guangzhou 19 members Wuhan 4 members

Georgia

Tbilisi 64 members

Hong Kong

Hong Kong 97 members

India

Pune. Maharashtra India 652 members Hyderabad 356 members Chennai 341 members Mumbai 675 members New Delhi 406 members Kolkata 106 members Ghaziabad 57 members Chandigarh 75 members Vadodara 35 members Indore 72 members Dehradun 21 members Guwahati 17 members Ahmedabad 110 members Bhubaneswar 18 members Bengaluru 1595 members Andhra Pradesh 17 members Rajasthan 24 members Kerala 26 members Nagpur 51 members Delhi 167 members Jamshedpur 9 members Mysuru (Mysore) 46 members Ranchi 17 members Kochi 142 members Lucknow 41 members Varanasi 19 members Patiala 11 members Noida 117 members Jaipur 50 members Raipur 15 members Coimbatore 102 members Surat 22 members Panaji 23 members Trivandrum 41 members Jammu and Kashmir 3 members Shillong 2 members

Indonesia

Jakarta 140 members Yogyakarta 23 members Bandung 32 members

Israel

Tel Aviv 97 members Jerusalem 11 members

Japan

Tokyo 106 members Tsukuba 10 members Kyoto 14 members Ota 7 members

Jordan

Jubaiha 28 members Amman 59 members

Kazakhstan

Almaty 9 members

Kuwait

Kuwait City 11 members

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur 88 members Seri Kembangan 7 members Georgetown 15 members Selangor 5 members

Myanmar

Yangon 10 members

Nepal

Kathmandu 43 members

Oman

Muscat 18 members

Pakistan

Karachi 52 members Lahore 55 members Islamabad 39 members Multan 3 members

Palestine

Palestine 12 members

Philippines

Manila 87 members Quezon City 38 members Mandaluyong City 33 members Makati City 69 members Taguig 30 members Pasig 26 members Cebu 19 members Davao 5 members

Qatar

Doha 21 members

Saudi Arabia

Jeddah 38 members Riyadh 157 members Dhahran 21 members

Singapore

Singapore 278 members Nanyang Technological University 39 members

South Korea

Seocho-dong 9 members Seoul 41 members Seongnam 11 members

Sri Lanka

Colombo 59 members Ja-Ela 5 members Malabe 9 members

Taiwan

Taipei 67 members

Thailand

Bangkok 210 members Khlongsamwa 14 members

Turkey

Istanbul 465 members Izmir 98 members Ankara 150 members

United Arab Emirates

Dubai 198 members Abu Dhabi 48 members

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan 4 members

Vietnam

Hanoi 109 members Ho Chi Minh City 136 members

Local Groups in Europe

Austria

Linz 30 members Vienna 150 members Graz 26 members Vorarlberg 9 members Klagenfurt 4 members

Belgium

Ghent 52 members Brussels 156 members Liege 11 members Hasselt 31 members

Bulgaria

Sofia 91 members Plovdiv 19 members Varna 13 members

Croatia

Zagreb 64 members

Cyprus

Nicosia 26 members Limassol 9 members

Czech Republic

Prague 77 members Beroun 5 members Brno 23 members

Denmark

Copenhagen 179 members Aarhus 68 members Aalborg 19 members Odense 21 members

Estonia

Tallinn 40 members

Finland

Tampere 25 members Jyvaskyla 6 members Espoo 29 members Helsinki 130 members Oulu 4 members Turku 17 members

France

Paris 204 members Strasbourg 8 members Bordeaux 32 members Nice 15 members Lyon 34 members Marseille 8 members

Germany

Berlin 565 members Cologne 137 members Stuttgart 98 members Dresden 26 members Frankfurt 145 members Braunschweig 22 members Munich 291 members Kiel 7 members Hamburg 150 members Ulm and Neu-Ulm 26 members Nuremberg 63 members Ilmenau 6 members Karlsruhe 67 members Bremen 22 members Duesseldorf 110 members Lindau 4 members

Gibraltar

Gibraltar 11 members

Greece

Athens 124 members Larisa 15 members Thessaloniki 32 members

Hungary

Budapest 93 members

Iceland

Reykjavík 16 members

Ireland

Dublin 209 members Waterford 13 members Cork 39 members Letterkenny 8 members Galway 11 members

Isle of Man

Isle of Man 3 members

Italy

Milan 338 members Bergamo 21 members Benevento 15 members Verona 20 members Bologna 69 members Florence 36 members Alessandria 5 members Pescara 7 members Padua 18 members Siena 12 members Rome 109 members Turin 65 members Catania 13 members Genoa 16 members Cagliari 10 members Castelfranco Veneto 12 members Soave 4 members Bari 9 members Rimini 13 members Venice 9 members Udine 10 members Lamezia Terme 5 members Trento 14 members Palermo 8 members

Latvia

Riga 41 members

Lithuania

Vilnius 53 members

Luxembourg

Luxembourg City 38 members

Malta

Malta 40 members

Moldova, Republic of

Chisinau 11 members

Montenegro

Bar 9 members

Netherlands

Nijmegen 25 members Utrecht 178 members Deventer 25 members Amsterdam 367 members Eindhoven 55 members Rotterdam 119 members Breda 18 members Maastricht 18 members The Hague 59 members Groningen 27 members Soesterberg 10 members

North Macedonia

Bitola 3 members Skopje 20 members

Norway

Gjovik 26 members Oslo 200 members Stavanger 25 members Bergen 4 members

Poland

Poznan 64 members Warsaw 234 members Katowice 52 members Wroclaw 74 members Krakow 121 members Tricity 34 members

Portugal

Coimbra 32 members Porto 185 members Lisbon 319 members Funchal 3 members Braga 42 members Lagos 10 members Leiria 12 members Aveiro 21 members Viseu 1 members Caldas da Rainha 20 members

Romania

Bucharest 146 members Iasi 44 members Cluj-Napoca 58 members Sibiu 10 members Timisoara 18 members

Serbia

Belgrade 99 members Uzice 16 members

Slovakia

Bratislava 47 members

Slovenia

Maribor 11 members Ljubljana 35 members

Spain

Barcelona 333 members Madrid 250 members Vigo 22 members Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 14 members Bilbao 31 members Alicante 17 members Seville 14 members Valencia 53 members Palma de Mallorca 10 members Málaga 37 members

Sweden

Malmo 82 members Orebro 1 members Vaxjo 5 members Karlstad 4 members Stockholm 219 members Umeaa 9 members Gothenburg 85 members Helsingborg 15 members Linkoping 16 members

Switzerland

Zurich 220 members Lugano 22 members Geneva 65 members Winterthur 25 members Bern 72 members

Ukraine

Kyiv 107 members Kharkov 21 members Lviv 67 members Odessa 20 members Dnipro 11 members Zaporizhzhia 4 members

United Kingdom

London 1437 members Gloucester 25 members Aberdeen 8 members Dundee 11 members Edinburgh 115 members Cambridge 69 members Manchester 195 members Newcastle Upon Tyne 54 members Birmingham 123 members Leicester 47 members Lancaster 9 members Bournemouth 17 members Leeds 104 members Horsham 37 members Southampton 34 members Sheffield 30 members Exeter 37 members Oxford 67 members Brighton 69 members Belfast 38 members Thames Valley 66 members Glasgow 66 members Bristol 90 members Liverpool 38 members Stoke-on-Trent 8 members Derby 21 members Cardiff 30 members Reading 19 members East Yorkshire ( Hull) 7 members Warwick 6 members

Local Groups in Oceania

Australia

Melbourne 275 members Sydney 339 members Brisbane 119 members Canberra 42 members Townsville 1 members Perth 55 members Adelaide 33 members Toowoomba 1 members Cabramatta West 9 members

New Zealand

Wellington 43 members Auckland 93 members Rangiora 2 members Christchurch 18 members Tauranga 5 members

Local Groups in South America

Argentina

Mendoza 23 members Buenos Aires 450 members Córdoba 64 members San Luis 14 members Salta 2 members Mar del Plata 19 members Tucumán 6 members

Bolivia

Santa Cruz de la Sierra 8 members Cochabamba 3 members La Paz 2 members

Brazil

Campinas 75 members Bauru 16 members Porto Alegre 65 members Brasilia 69 members Araraquara 9 members Belem 2 members Rio de Janeiro 151 members Manaus 23 members Curitiba 75 members Sorocaba 11 members Campo Grande 2 members Florianopolis 74 members Maceio 5 members Joinville 13 members Recife 51 members Cacador 1 members Belo Horizonte 88 members Mogi das Cruzes 8 members Ubatuba 3 members Ribeirao Preto 13 members Goiânia 10 members Sao Paulo 595 members Fortaleza 25 members Blumenau 23 members Salvador 20 members Itajubá 2 members Maringá 5 members Pelotas 4 members Balneário Camboriú 3 members

Chile

Santiago of Chile 241 members Temuco 14 members Valparaiso 30 members

Colombia

Barranquilla 21 members Medellin 127 members Bogota 219 members Cali 62 members Armenia 19 members Bucaramanga 5 members

Ecuador

Quito 47 members Guayaquil 25 members

Paraguay

Asuncion 19 members

Peru

Lima 162 members

Uruguay

Montevideo 88 members

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