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Most people breathing unhealthy air in North Chungcheong, South Korea, May 2025

5 cities in North Chungcheong, 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: Jungpyong, South Korea, about 1.2K on an average day. A city needs measurements on 70% of the days to be ranked.

About 1.2K people in these 5 cities breathed unhealthy air on an average day of May 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.

← Jungpyong 1.2K 1K0
Every city in North Chungcheong, South Korea ranked for May 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. 1Jungpyong
    1.2K
  2. 2Cheongju-si
    0
  3. 3Chinch'ŏn
    0
  4. 4Chungju
    0
  5. 5Koesan
    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 North Chungcheong, South Korea, by people breathing unhealthy air, PM2.5, May 2025, smogrank.com/kr/region/north-chungcheong/history/2025-05?by=people (accessed 7 Oct 2026).

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