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Twice a year Economist Intelligence Unit comes up with a report the Worldwide Cost of Living, which details costs in different cities.
The report is compiled by comparing "more than 400 individual prices across 160 product and services" including food, drink, clothing, household supplies and personal care items, home rents, transport, utility bills, private schools, domestic help and recreational costs.
To evaluate the cities, the survey takes prices in New York as the base (100), and compared other cities with it.
Here's a list of cheapest and most expensive cities.
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The 10 cheapest cities
Photographs: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
Karachi
Rank: 130
Country: Pakistan
WCOL index: 44
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The 10 cheapest cities
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Mumbai
Rank: 130 (a tie with Karachi)
Country: India
WCOL index: 44
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The 10 cheapest cities
Photographs: Desmond Boylan/Reuters
New Delhi
Rank: 129
Country: India
WCOL index: 48
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Kathmandu
Rank: 128
Country: Nepal
WCOL index: 50
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Algiers
Rank: 126
Country: Algeria
WCOL index: 54
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Bucharest
Rank: 126 (a tie with Algiers)
Country: Romania
WCOL index: 54
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Colombo
Rank: 125
Country: Sri Lanka
WCOL index: 55
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Panama City
Rank: 124
Country: Panama
WCOL index: 56
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Photographs: Susan Baaghil/Reuters
Jeddah
Rank: 123
Country: Saudi Arabia
WCOL index: 57
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Tehran
Rank: 122
Country: Iran
WCOL index: 58
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Issei Kato/Reuters
Tokyo
Rank: 1
Country: Japan
WCOL index: 152
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters
Osaka
Rank: 2
Country: Japan
WCOL index: 146
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Daniel Munoz/Reuters
Sydney
Rank: 3
Country: Australia
WCOL index: 137
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
Oslo
Rank: 4 (a tie with Melbourne)
Country: Norway
WCOL index: 136
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Photographs: Toby Melville/Reuters
Melbourne
Rank: 4 (a tie with Oslo)
Country: Australia
WCOL index: 136
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Tim Chong/Reuters
Singapore
Rank: 6
Country: Singapore
WCOL index: 135
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
Zurich
Rank: 7
Country: Switzerland
WCOL index: 131
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Reuters
Paris
Rank: 8
Country: France
WCOL index: 128
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
Caracas
Rank: 9
Country: Venezuela
WCOL index: 126
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The 10 most expensive cities
Photographs: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Geneva
Rank: 10
Country: Switzerland
WCOL index: 124
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