Canada's biggest cities continued to rank higher than the top American cities in Mercer's annual global quality of living survey.

Vancouver held on to its fifth place position in an evaluation of 230 cities and continued to be the top North American city.

Vienna, Zurich, Auckland, and Munich all scored higher than Vancouver and European cities dominated the top 10.

Meanwhile, Toronto took the 15^th spot, Ottawa came in 17^th, and Montreal 23^rd—all higher than the top U.S. city: San Francisco at number 28.

Calgary came in 32^nd place.

This year's survey factored in personal safety for the first time. All five Canadian cities which were included in the survey came in at 16^th place while no U.S. cities made the top 50 in this category.

Singapore is Asia's highest ranking city, at 26^th place.

The lowest scoring cities were Damascus (229) and Baghdad, which came in last place.

The top 10 cities are:

1. Vienna, Austria

2. Zurich, Switzerland

3. Auckland, New Zealand

4. Munich, Germany

5. Vancouver, Canada

6. Dusseldorf, Germany

7. Frankfurt, Germany

8. Geneva, Switzerland

9. Copenhagen, Denmark

10. Sydney, Australia

Meanwhile, the 10 least desirable cities are:

221. Conakry, Guinea

222. Kinshasa, Congo, Democratic Republic of

223. Brazzaville, Congo, Republic of

224. Damascus, Syria

225. N'Djamena, Chad

226. Khartoum, Sudan

227. Port-au-Prince, Haiti

228. Sana'a, Yemen

229. Bangui, Central African Republic

230. Baghdad, Iraq