World's 10 Most Polluted Places

Presenting the world's most polluted places.
Posted Sep 16, 2007 8:32 AM CDT
World's 10 Most Polluted Places
Picture taken 17 April 2007 shows a classroom of abandoned school in the evacuated Chernobyl area.   (Getty Images)

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
(More pollution stories.)

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