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Most polluted cities in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, 2025
17 cities in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 365 days; 17 above the WHO annual guideline (5.0 µg/m³). Worst: Gumi at 20.4 µg/m³, #239 of 2,624 cities in the world. Cleanest: Dodong-ri at 11.3. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 58.2K people in these 6 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of 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.
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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