Cities similar to Surabaya

Ranked by how close each city sits to Surabaya across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

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.

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IslamabadPakistan6.89clean air, city-centre rent, cost of living
Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam10.610safety, universities, green space
SemarangIndonesia10.910women aged 20–39, cost of living, clean air
LahorePakistan11.99cost of living, safety, universities
JakartaIndonesia14.210universities, cost of living, city-centre rent
HanoiVietnam14.610clean air, universities, safety
ShirazIran14.710city-centre rent, cost of living, local salary
MedanIndonesia15.410universities, cost of living, salary against local costs
GizaEgypt15.510green space, cost of living, clean air
YogyakartaIndonesia16.110safety, 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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