(VOVWORLD) - HCM city has moved up two places to 45th of 60 cities in the latest global safety ranking, VnExpress cited the latest Safe Cities Index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
 Foreign tourists walk on Bui Vien backpacker street in downtown HCMC, March 2020. (Photo: VnExpress) |
Vietnam's southern metropolis was placed above Jakarta, Manila, and Yangon in Southeast Asia, but behind Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok.
The index measures cities in 5 continents based on 76 qualitative and quantitative indicators spread across five categories of security: digital, infrastructure, health, personal and environment.
Copenhagen topped the index as the world’s safest city, followed by Toronto and Singapore.