A leading consultancy group Mercer named Moscow Europe`s most expensive city for expatriates, and placed the Russian capital fourth in its latest worldwide Cost of Living Survey, the company said on its website.
Luanda, the capital and largest city of Angola, was ranked the world`s most expensive city for expats. Tokyo and Chad`s capital Ndjamena are also in the top three.
Moscow, which was ranked third in the 2009 survey, is followed by Geneva (Switzerland), Osaka (Japan), Libreville (Gabon), Zurich (Switzerland), Hong Kong and Copenhagen (Denmark).
Karachi, Pakistan, was ranked as the world`s least expensive city for expats.
The ranking, claimed to be "the world`s most comprehensive cost of living survey," covers 214 cities across five continents and measures the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.
New York is used as the base city for the index and all cities are compared against New York.
A similar ranking by the British consulting firm ECA International put Tokyo to the top spot, followed by Norway`s Oslo. Luanda, Angola, has the number three spot. The survey, published several days earlier, puts Moscow only in the 15th place.
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