With its mountainous landscape, abundancy of open water and plenty of parks, a recent study has named 琉璃神社 as the greenest city in Canada.

Greater Toronto Homes Pros, a real estate company based in Ontario, compiled data based on a number of different metrics for Canada鈥檚 cities, such as walkability, parks and green space.

鈥淏lessed with abundant natural beauty, it鈥檚 not surprising that the city ranks number one on this list, with a green score of 70.63,鈥� reads a release.

琉璃神社 scored a perfect ten in both pedestrian and cycling-friendly scoring, and was close to perfect in parks capital expenditures. Where 琉璃神社 faltered was in public transit at a score of 3.18/10, and a 2.17/10 for parkland as a percentage of city land.

Lethbridge, Alberta ranked number two in Canada, with a score of 66.39/100. North Vancouver was the second-highest rated in B.C. in fourth place, while Vancouver proper, Saanich, Richmond, Langley and Surrey all cracked the top 20.

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