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The best city to live in the world… Can you guess?

the Mercer Quality of Living Rankings 2015 ranked Vienna at the top of the list for the fifth consecutive year

Newsroom March 4 12:28

Vienna, Austria, remained at the top of the Mercer Quality of Living Rankings out of 230 cities in 2015, boasting the best quality of living for expatriates. Zurich, Switzerland, and Auckland, New Zealand followed.

Athens, Greece, ranked 85th, on a par with Durban, South Africa, and just a point behind Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, though faring slightly better than Limassol in Cyprus.

The lowest ranking city was Baghdad, worse than Bangui (229), Port-au-Prince (228) and Khartoum (227).

Here’s the list of the top 100:

1 Vienna, Austria

2 Zurich,Switzerland

3 Auckland, New Zealand

4 Munich Germany

5 Vancouver Canada

6Dusseldorf Germany

7 Frankfurt Germany

8 Geneva Switzerland

9 Copenhagen Denmark

10 Sydney Australia

11 Amsterdam Netherlands

12 Wellington New Zealand

13Bern Switzerland

14 Berlin Germany

15 Toronto Canada

16Hamburg Germany

16 Melbourne Australia

16 Ottawa Canada

19Luxembourg Luxembourg

19 Stockholm Sweden

21 Stuttgart Germany

22 Brussels Belgium

22 Perth Australia

24Montreal Canada

25 Nurnberg Germany

26 Singapore Singapore

27 Adelaide Australia

27 Paris France

27 San Francisco United States

30 Canberra Australia

31 Helsinki Finland

31 Oslo Norway

33 Calgary Canada

34 Boston United States

34 Dublin Ireland

36 Honolulu United States

37 Brisbane Australia

38 Barcelona Spain

39 Lyon France

40 London United Kingdom

41 Lisbon Portugal

41 Milan Italy

43 Chicago United States

44 New York City United States

44 SeattleUnited States

44 Tokyo Japan

47 Kobe Japan

48 Los Angeles United States

48 Yokohama Japan

50Washington United States

51 Madrid Spain

52 Birmingham United Kingdom

52 Rome Italy

54 Pittsburgh United States

55 Glasgow United Kingdom

55 Philadelphia United States

57 Aberdeen United Kingdom

58 Osaka Japan

59 Leipzig Germany

60 Minneapolis United States

61 Nagoya Japan

62 Dallas United States

63 Belfast United Kingdom

64 Houston United States

65 Miami United States

66 Atlanta United States

67 St. Louis United States

68 Prague Czech Republic

69 Pointe-a-Pitre Guadeloupe

70 Detroit United States

70 Hong KongHong Kong

72 San Juan Puerto Rico

72 Seoul South Korea

74 DubaiUnited Arab Emirates

75 Budapest Hungary

75 LjubljanaSlovenia

77 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates

78 Montevideo Uruguay

79 Vilnius Lithuania

79 Warsaw Poland

81 Bratislava Slovakia

82 Port Louis Mauritius

83 Taipei Taiwan

84 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

85 Athens Greece

85 Durban South Africa

87 LimassolCyprus

88 TallinnEstonia

89 Riga Latvia

90Busan South Korea

91 Buenos Aires Argentina

91 Cape Town South Africa

93 Santiago Chile

94 Johannesburg South Africa

95 Panama City Panama

96Victoria Seychelles

97 Zagreb Croatia

98 Cheonan South Korea

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