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World’s greenest cities

• POSTED ON: 8 Dec, 2018
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• POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan
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Cities have been sorted into all sorts of lists – largest, most populated, richest, happiest, etc. Here’s a list that really matters – greenest.

Dutch agency TravelBird released a list of 10 greenest cities in the world. They compiled the Green City Index by analysing the maps of 50 city-members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. They looked at the amount of green space in these cities and divided it into three categories: natural, man-made, and food production. These green spaces were then reported in terms of the number of square metres available per inhabitant of each city.

According to this index, the greenest city is Reykjavik where there is 410.84 metres-squared of green space available for every resident.

Here are the top six greenest cities:

1. Reykjavik
2. Auckland
3. Bratislava
4. Gothenburg
5. Sydney
6. Prague