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Most people breathing unhealthy air in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, January 2025

7 cities in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea measured at 2 or more places, ranked by how many people breathed unhealthy air on an average day over the 31 days. The most people breathing unhealthy air: Changwon, South Korea, about 99.3K on an average day. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 281K people in these 7 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of January 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.

← Changwon 99.3K 90K0
Every city in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea ranked for January 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. 1Changwon
    99.3K
  2. 2Kimhae
    68.6K
  3. 3Chinju
    49.6K
  4. 4Yangsan
    34.7K
  5. 5Naesŏ
    13.1K
  6. 6Ungsang
    8.07K
  7. 7Sinhyeon
    7.99K
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 Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, by people breathing unhealthy air, PM2.5, January 2025, smogrank.com/kr/region/gyeongsangnam-do/history/2025-01?by=people (accessed 7 Oct 2026).

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