Bangkok is the closest match, 10.1 percentile points from Hanoi across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on places to eat, green space and salary against local costs. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 18.8 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 1 of the 10 is also in Vietnam; the other 9 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Hanoi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| BangkokThailand | 10.1 | 10 | places to eat, green space, salary against local costs |
| IslamabadPakistan | 12.7 | 9 | clean air, salary against local costs, green space |
| JakartaIndonesia | 13.5 | 10 | universities, salary against local costs, clean air |
| SurabayaIndonesia | 14.6 | 10 | clean air, universities, safety |
| Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam | 14.9 | 10 | cost of living, universities, local salary |
| PristinaKosovo | 16.9 | 10 | city-centre rent, salary against local costs, cost of living |
| YogyakartaIndonesia | 17.1 | 10 | universities, clean air, safety |
| Phnom PenhCambodia | 17.2 | 10 | women aged 20–39, places to eat, local salary |
| KrasnodarRussia | 18.1 | 10 | safety, salary against local costs |
| BishkekKyrgyzstan | 18.8 | 10 | local salary, universities |
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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