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Most polluted cities in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, January 2026
13 cities in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea ranked by their average PM2.5 over the 31 days. Worst: Kimje at 25.7 µg/m³, #234 of 2,593 cities in the world. Cleanest: Changsu at 15.8. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.
About 190K people in these 8 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of January 2026.
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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