Surabaya is the closest match, 10.6 percentile points from Ho Chi Minh City across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on safety, universities and green space. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 16.9 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 Ho Chi Minh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SurabayaIndonesia | 10.6 | 10 | safety, universities, green space |
| IslamabadPakistan | 11.3 | 9 | salary against local costs, local salary, places to eat |
| HanoiVietnam | 14.9 | 10 | cost of living, universities, local salary |
| BangkokThailand | 15.0 | 10 | salary against local costs, clean air, universities |
| AgadirMorocco | 15.5 | 10 | safety, local salary, cost of living |
| KrasnodarRussia | 15.5 | 10 | safety, salary against local costs, green space |
| PristinaKosovo | 15.5 | 10 | women aged 20–39, clean air, green space |
| BakuAzerbaijan | 15.8 | 10 | city-centre rent, universities, women aged 20–39 |
| SemarangIndonesia | 16.8 | 10 | clean air |
| AnkaraTurkey | 16.9 | 10 | clean air, safety |
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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