Revealed: Europe’s greenest capitals

New research has revealed that Paris has more green space than any other European capital city.

The study by Drinking Straw analysed the number of parks, gardens, wildlife areas, forests, playgrounds and bodies of water compared to the size of the population to see which areas have the most green spaces per 100,000 people.

Paris has a total of 325 total green spaces made up of 171 parks, 127 gardens, one wildlife area, 16 playgrounds and ten bodies of water. When accounting for population, it has 7.62 parks and 5.66 gardens per 100,000 people.

Luxembourg City comes in second place with 13 green spaces despite its smaller population, consisting of 8 parks, one garden and four playgrounds. There were 8.51 parks per 100,000 people, the highest of any city in the study.

Dublin is third on the list, with 66 green spaces: 34 parks, 15 gardens, seven nature and wildlife areas, three playgrounds, one forest and six bodies of water. The study found it to have 6.47 parks and 2.86 gardens per 100,000 people.

London comes in 24^th place of all the capitals studied, which has the most green spaces with 356 in total, but when taking into account the city’s population it falls out of the top ten. Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, with a total of 31 green spaces, comes in 17^th place when adjusting for population.