Tainan City is the closest match, 3.8 percentile points from Kaohsiung City across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on clean air, green space and cost of living. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 13.7 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 3 of the 10 are also in Taiwan; the other 7 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Kaohsiung City 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tainan CityTaiwan | 3.8 | 10 | clean air, green space, cost of living |
| Taichung CityTaiwan | 6.4 | 10 | city-centre rent, local salary, clean air |
| KunmingChina | 9.5 | 10 | safety, women aged 20–39, universities |
| HangzhouChina | 12.7 | 10 | local salary, green space, salary against local costs |
| DaeguSouth Korea | 12.9 | 10 | city-centre rent, salary against local costs, universities |
| GuangzhouChina | 12.9 | 10 | salary against local costs, local salary, clean air |
| NagoyaJapan | 13.2 | 10 | green space, salary against local costs, places to eat |
| XiamenChina | 13.3 | 10 | safety, clean air, salary against local costs |
| Hsinchu CityTaiwan | 13.4 | 10 | women aged 20–39, cost of living, city-centre rent |
| QingdaoChina | 13.7 | 10 | green space, city-centre rent, clean air |
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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