Question : Excel Formula to search 2 lists to produce a 3rd list

Excel:

I have 2 lists:

List 1:
Sydney
Melbourne
Adelaide
Hobart
Melbourne
Adelaide
Sydney
Melbourne
Adelaide
Perth
Perth
Melbourne
Adelaide
Sydney
Melbourne

List 2:
sydney
Melbourne
Adelaide

I need to write an excel formula that will use every string in list 2 and search for the number of instances in List 1 and produce a List 3 which will have something like:

List3:
sydney 3
Melbourne 5
Adelaide 4


Can anyone help?

Answer : Excel Formula to search 2 lists to produce a 3rd list

Try this: =IF(COUNTIF(A:A,B1)=0,"",CONCATENATE(B1," ",COUNTIF(A:A,B1)))))
and drag down the little black box on the corner of the cell to populate as far as you need to go.