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If you've ever read the name of a town on a highway sign and started chuckling, you are not alone. Cities and towns across the nation have terrifically dirty-sounding and laugh-inducing names.
This list contains the top 500 cities by PM2.5 annual mean concentration measurement as documented by the World Health Organization covering the period from 2010 to 2022. The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries.
Here are the 10 dirtiest cities and 10 cleanest cities in the country that made it onto Lawnstarter's list — with an overall ranking averaged from four factors (pollution, living conditions ...
List of cities by elevation; List of cities by time of continuous habitation; List of cities proper by population; List of cities with the most skyscrapers; List of cities with more than one commercial airport; List of city name changes; List of largest cities throughout history; List of national capitals; List of ghost towns by country; List ...
List of cities and towns in Bulgaria; List of cities and towns in Croatia; List of cities, towns and villages in Cyprus; List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic; List of cities in Denmark; List of cities and towns in Estonia; List of cities and towns in Finland; List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants
Capital city; List of countries whose capital is not their largest city; List of capitals outside the territories they serve; List of national capitals by latitude; List of countries and dependencies by population; List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants; List of population concern organizations; List of national capitals
Vijayanagara was possibly the second-largest city in the world in 1500, with around 500,000 inhabitants. [26] It was captured and destroyed by Muslim armies in 1565, and has been abandoned ever since. Hampi is a World Heritage Site within this town. Lakhpat was once a bustling port town at the mouth of Kori creek of Kutch.
There is no globally standardised definition of what constitutes a city, and municipal divisions differ from country to country. If only the administrative boundaries of a city were taken into account, Chongqing would be the largest city in the world, with 32 million inhabitants. However, the urban population is significantly smaller at just ...