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Most polluted cities in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, March 2025

13 cities in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Iksan at 28.0 µg/m³, #347 of 2,809 cities in the world. Cleanest: Koch'ang at 18.8. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 324K people in these 8 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of March 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.

← Iksan 109K 100K0
Every city in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea ranked for March 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. 1Iksan
    109K
  2. 2Gunsan
    85.4K
  3. 3Jeonju
    82.4K
  4. 4Jeongeup
    31.6K
  5. 5Buan
    5.75K
  6. 6Namsa
    4.57K
  7. 7Imsil
    3.32K
  8. 8Changsu
    1.71K
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 Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, PM2.5, March 2025, smogrank.com/kr/region/jeollabuk-do/history/2025-03 (accessed 6 Oct 2026).

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