python - How to extract unique values from pandas column where values are in list

Question

I want to extract unique cities from city column in pandas dataframe. City column has values in list. How would I extract the cities frequency like:

Lahore  3
Karachi 2
Sydney  1

etc.

Sample dataframe:

    Name  Age      City
a   jack   34    [Sydney,Delhi]
b   Riti   31    [Lahore,Delhi]
c   Aadi   16  [New York, Karachi, Lahore]
d  Mohit   32     [Peshawar,Delhi, Karachi]

Thank you

Answer 1

Let us try explode + value_counts

out = df.City.explode().value_counts()