Islamabad is the closest match, 6.8 percentile points from Surabaya across 9 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on clean air, city-centre rent and cost of living. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 16.1 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 4 of the 10 are also in Indonesia; the other 6 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Surabaya because both score badly on the same things.
921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.
| Closest on | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| IslamabadPakistan | 6.8 | 9 | clean air, city-centre rent, cost of living |
| Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam | 10.6 | 10 | safety, universities, green space |
| SemarangIndonesia | 10.9 | 10 | women aged 20–39, cost of living, clean air |
| LahorePakistan | 11.9 | 9 | cost of living, safety, universities |
| JakartaIndonesia | 14.2 | 10 | universities, cost of living, city-centre rent |
| HanoiVietnam | 14.6 | 10 | clean air, universities, safety |
| ShirazIran | 14.7 | 10 | city-centre rent, cost of living, local salary |
| MedanIndonesia | 15.4 | 10 | universities, cost of living, salary against local costs |
| GizaEgypt | 15.5 | 10 | green space, cost of living, clean air |
| YogyakartaIndonesia | 16.1 | 10 | safety, universities, cost of living |
Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.
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