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Mapping The World's Most Polluted Cities

This map is a bit depressing as far as maps go. It shows the pollution levels of the world's cities. Those in India, parts of Africa, and even slivers of South America stand out with extremely high levels of pollution. That said, we imagine that this map is probably only tracking air quality and pollution since you can see bands of yellow-level pollution over parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Parts of Eastern Europe also suffer from lower air quality, which is probably a remnant of Soviet-era industry that's still going on in those countries. Turkey's air quality is also pretty low.