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Most people breathing unhealthy air in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, April 2025

6 cities in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea measured at 2 or more places, ranked by how many people breathed unhealthy air on an average day over the 30 days. The most people breathing unhealthy air: Gumi, South Korea, about 13.5K on an average day. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 13.5K people in these 6 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of April 2025.

Ranked by people: each city's population times its share of unhealthy days, those with a daily mean over 35.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 101+). That is how many people living there breathed unhealthy air on an average day. Only cities measured at 2 or more places at least 3 km apart are ranked: one monitor shouldn't speak for a whole city. Population is the city itself, not its wider metro area.

← Gumi 13.5K 10K0
Every city in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea ranked for April 2025 with monitors in two or more places, one column each, ranked by people breathing unhealthy air: height is people on an average day, colour its average. Point at it to read a city; tap to open it.
  1. 1Gumi
    13.5K
  2. 2Yeongju
    0
  3. 3Gimcheon
    0
  4. 3Hayang
    0
  5. 5Gyeongsan-si
    0
  6. 6Gyeongju
    0
Good0–50
Moderate51–100
Sensitive groups101–150
Unhealthy151–200
Very unhealthy201–300
Hazardous301+

The US EPA's Air Quality Index for PM2.5 (2024 breakpoints). Show values as: µg/m³ · US AQI · India AQI · China AQI · European AQI · UK DAQI · Canada AQHI+. About the scales

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SmogRank, most polluted cities in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, by people breathing unhealthy air, PM2.5, April 2025, smogrank.com/kr/region/gyeongsangbuk-do/history/2025-04?by=people (accessed 7 Oct 2026).

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