In a ranking of the world's largest chemical companies based on number of employees, the German chemical company BASF SE, was ranked first, with approximately *** thousand employees. Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp, headquartered in Japan, was the world's second-largest chemical company based on number of employees with thousand employees worldwide.
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