# How many areas of this planet are now no-go zones?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-areas-of-this-planet-are-now-no-go-zones/741081 "2015-12-22T10:47:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-areas-of-this-planet-are-now-no-go-zones/741081/21 "2015-12-22T22:38:35Z")

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The OP limits the question to “contaminated areas” - the first that came to my mind is Bikini Atoll in the Pacific - site of extensive nuclear testing. I agree that the amount of space on earth rendered “no-go” by pollution is minute. Most places like bomb ranges are far out of the way and of little value to humanity anyway, so we wont be getting hemmed-in anytime soon.

However, if you expand the question to just no-go for the average person, the list gets interesting as to the reasons why:

- Area 51
- North Korea
- The city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia (depending on your religious persuasion)
- The north pole/south pole
- Florida

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**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-areas-of-this-planet-are-now-no-go-zones/741081/22 "2015-12-23T02:15:33Z")

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Well, most of the US is no-go for most people; it’s just not quite the same set of no-go areas for any two people. There are a great many places I can’t go because I would be trespassing, but for every one of those places, there are a few people who go there without trespassing.

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**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-areas-of-this-planet-are-now-no-go-zones/741081/23 "2015-12-23T02:39:00Z")

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> [@glee](#):
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> According to Donald Trump, there are areas of London that are no-go. :smack:

I saw something posted on Facebook this morning about no-go (because of Muslims) zones now in the USA. I didn’t bother opening the post or reading it.

Bob

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**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-areas-of-this-planet-are-now-no-go-zones/741081/24 "2015-12-23T04:40:09Z")

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Times Beach, Missouri was more or less a no-go zone for a while due to dioxin contamination as a result of some knucklehead who mixed industrial waste (from a plant manufacturing Agent Orange) with used crankcase oil and sprayed it on city dirt roads as a dust suppressing measure.

Apparently the town is no more, and the first several inches of soil have been stripped and incinerated. There’s a Route 66 highway park on the site now, and there’s apparently no significant dioxin contamination any longer.

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