VIENNA has been judged to have the best living standard in the world, while seven other European cities were ranked in the top 10 of the annual Mercer 2011 Quality of Living survey.
The Mercer survey covers 221 cities, which are ranked against New York as the base city.
The Austrian capital, which also finished on top of the list in 2010, was followed in the 2011 rankings by Zurich, Auckland, Munich, Dusseldorf and Vancouver. Rounding out the top 10 were Frankfurt, Geneva, Bern and Copenhagen.
"European cities in general continue to have high standards of living, because they enjoy advanced and modern city infrastructures combined with high-class medical, recreational and leisure facilities," said Mercer's senior researcher Slagin Parakatil yesterday.
The top-ranked US city on the list was Honolulu at No. 29, with San Francisco one spot further back. Boston, Chicago, Washington, New York, Seattle and Pittsburgh also ranked in the top 50.
As usual, Australian cities fared well in the rankings, with Sydney ranked 11th, Melbourne 18th, Perth 21st and Canberra 26th.
On the other end of the scale, war-torn Baghdad was judged as the city having the worst living standard in the world for the second successive year.
As could be expected, the four cities that joined Baghdad in the bottom five were located in war-torn or disaster-stricken areas. Sudan's capital Khartoum ranked 217 on the list, followed by Port-au-Prince in Haiti, N'Djamena in Chad, and Bangui in the Central African Republic.
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