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World's 10 Most Polluted Places

Presenting the world's most polluted places.

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(Newser) – Millions around the world live in soot-blackened cities and toxic wastelands. Time offers a reverse travel guide to the most polluted places on Earth:

  1. Linfen, China
  2. Tianjin, China
  3. Sukinda, India

  1. Vapi, India
  2. La Oroya, Peru
  3. Dzerzhinsk, Russia
  4. Norilsk, Russia
  5. Chernobyl, Ukraine
  6. Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
  7. Kabwe, Zambia

Picture taken 17 April 2007 shows a classroom of abandoned school in the evacuated Chernobyl area.
Picture taken 17 April 2007 shows a classroom of abandoned school in the evacuated Chernobyl area.   (Getty Images)
Linfen China, seen here on February 15, 2007, tops Time's list of most polluted places, with over 3 million people affected by coal and particulates from car and factory emissions.
Linfen China, seen here on February 15, 2007, tops Time's list of most polluted places, with over 3 million people affected by coal and particulates from car and factory emissions.   (Getty Images)
Children tested in La Oroya, Peru have a dangerously high concentration of lead in their blood from pollution caused by local mining and processing operations.
Children tested in La Oroya, Peru have a dangerously high concentration of lead in their blood from pollution caused by local mining and processing operations.   (KRT Photos)
Picture taken 17 April 2007 shows an abandoned house in a village in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
Picture taken 17 April 2007 shows an abandoned house in a village in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.   (Getty Images)
Abandoned factories in Sumgayit, one of the most polluted areas in the world, an industrial town near Baku which houses one of the largest petro-chemical production complexes in the former Soviet Union.
Abandoned factories in Sumgayit, one of the most polluted areas in the world, an industrial town near Baku which houses one of the largest petro-chemical production complexes in the former Soviet Union.   (Magnum Photos)
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