The World's Dirtiest Cities

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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In case you’re bored with the *Forbes * list of the world’s richest people, here’s their list of the world’s dirtiest cities.

Related info here.

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That’s overwhelming. So many people, so much pollution. So much poverty.

I was surprised by Moscow’s inclusion.

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I hate these web lists that force you to watch every item one-by-one. For anyone who doesn’t want to sit through the whole slideshow, here’s the list:

25: Port Harcourt, Nigeria
24: New Delhi, India
23: Maputo, Mozambique
22: Luanda, Angola
21: Niamey, Niger
20: Nouakchott, Mauritania
19: Conakry, Guinea Republic
18: Lome, Togo
17: Pointe Noire, Congo
16: Bamako, Mali
15: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
14: Moscow, Russia
13: Bangui, Central African Republic
12: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
11: Ndjamena, Chad
10: Brazzaville, Congo
9: Almaty, Kazakhstan
8: Baghdad, Iraq
7: Mumbai, India
6: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
5: Mexico City, Mexico
4: Port au Prince, Haiti
3: Antananarivo, Madagasca
2: Dhaka, Bangladesh
1: Baku, Azerbaijan

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I’ve been to four of them, and seen one from a few feet away!

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I hate those stories that trumpet themselves as “The N most somethingest places” where you then go read the story, but do they give you a list of all N places, ranked? NOOOOOOoooooo. By reading the entire article, you’ll glean the first few, but not all of them. In this case, even when you click on the link at the end of the article, there is no list for quick reference, you have to sit through the slide show.

So here, for Dopers everywhere who wish to ingest information at their own pace rather than suffer through the stupid one-by-one slide show, the actual list (#1 is the worst, i.e. Baku is THE dirtiest and Port Harcourt is the 25 dirtiest):

  1. Baku, Azerbaijan
  2. Dhaka, Bangladesh
  3. Antananarivo, Madagascar
  4. Port au Prince, Haiti
  5. Mexico City, Mexico
  6. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  7. Mumbai, India
  8. Baghdad, Iraq
  9. Almaty, Kazakhstan
  10. Brazzaville, Congo
  11. Najamena, Chad
  12. Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
  13. Bangui, Central African Republic
  14. Moscow, Russia
  15. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
  16. Bamako, Mali
  17. Pointe Noire, Congo
  18. Lome, Togo
  19. Conakry, Guinae Republic
  20. Nouakchott, Mauritania
  21. Niamey, Niger
  22. Luanda, Angola
  23. Maputo, Mozambique
  24. New Delhi, India
  25. Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Should you wish to thank me, just be sure to praise my unfunny jokes in future threads.

Actually I lived in Maputo for 2 years, and although I thought was a festering wound, it didn’t seem as dirty as Cairo or Beijing. Strange.

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Pssst, check upthread!

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I take it Dublin’s number 26 then?

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Originally posted by jovan:
Pssst, check upthread!

Gah, the dread simulpost! It wasn’t there when I started typing.

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…wait, it must have been. Previous post is hours earlier.

I can’t possibly be that stupid, so be on the lookout for a rip in the space time continuum.

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But… slideshows provide more clicks! They also display more ads! It’s all good! :wink: