Some of the wealthiest people in the European Union live in Oxfordshire.
Bracketed as one region with Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, it is the only part of the UK outside inner London to figure in the top 10 wealthiest parts of the union's 27 member states, new research has revealed.
It ranks alongside Hamburg, Vienna, Stockholm, the Ile de France region of France, and southern and eastern Ireland.
Taking 100 as the average wealth rating per head of population in the EU, inner London residents top the list, scoring 303 per cent, followed by 264 per cent for Luxembourg and 241 per cent for the Belgian capital Brussels, which is also the headquarters of the EU.
Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire comes in eighth place, with a figure of 168 per cent.
At the other end of the scale, north-east Romania recorded the lowest per capita wealth, at just 24 per cent of the average.
The 15 lowest rankings were all in parts of Bulgaria, Poland and Romania.
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