These are the most liveable cities in the region
to around 2,300 languages, more than 4.6bn people and myriad cultures and customs. Such diversity is also reflected in its cities. In a, our sister company, Asia and Australasia contained some of the world’s least and most pleasant cities in which to live. Karachi, Pakistan lags near the bottom; Melbourne, Australia soars near the top. But most cities in the region had something in common this year—they became relatively more liveable.
More incremental developments are also making Asian cities better places to live. Take infrastructure. India, for instance, is in the midst of a. Fast new trains are surging into Delhi, an expanded metro is zipping across Mumbai and 10,000km of highways are being built across the country each year. Education is gradually improving in parts of Asia, too. Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, saw the fifth-biggest jump up’s global ranking, in part because of the continued success of its schools. Judged by aggregate learning scores,now outperform their counterparts in Britain and Canada, according to the World Bank.
Asian cities’ gains have come in part because they have leapfrogged western European ones. But not everything is rosy. Indian cities did not register big improvements to their overall scores, partly because of worsening climate conditions.
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