Ho Chi Minh City, the southern metropolis, took the 9th position and Hanoi secured the 7th spot, as shown in the Cost of Living Index 2018 conducted by Numero, the world's largest database of user-contributed data on cities and countries worldwide. The index measures the cost of restaurants, house rental, groceries and purchasing power to come up with the average cost of living in each country. Aside from the two Vietnamese cities, other cities in the top ten are in the Philippines and Indonesia.
