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Want safe city? Don't miss Swiss
Associated Press
Published March 20, 2005
LONDON - Luxembourg is the world's safest city, but Swiss cities lead the way for combining safety with high quality of life, according to a survey last week.
The Swiss cities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich ranked just behind Luxembourg for safety, along with Finland's capital, Helsinki, according to the survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
When it comes to overall quality of life, Geneva and Zurich share the lead, followed by Vancouver, British Columbia, and Vienna, tied for third, and the German cities of Frankfurt, Munich and Dusseldorf tied for fifth.
The safety survey evaluated 215 locations for crime levels and internal stability.
In the United States, the five safest cities tied for 45th place: Honolulu; Houston; Lexington, Ky.; San Francisco; and Winston-Salem, N.C. New York was 58th, while Atlanta had the lowest U.S. ranking at 90th.
The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, was ranked the least safe city, followed by Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Bangui, Central African Republic; the Nigerian cities of Port Harcourt and Lagos; and Bogota, Colombia.
For its overall quality-of-life rankings, Mercer evaluated 39 criteria such as crime, health, education and transport.
Other cities at the top in that category are Auckland, New Zealand; Bern; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Sydney, Australia.
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