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The government’s recent initiatives to minimize pollution in Pakistan’s second-largest city went in vain as Lahore once again rated as the 3rd most polluted city in the world, as per the AIr Quality Index (AQI) on Monday.
Major city | US AQI | Followers | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 194 | 187.1K | ||
2 | Kolkata, India | 186 | 1.5M | ||
3 | Lahore, Pakistan | 176 | 292.1K | ||
4 | Mumbai, India | 174 | 1.5M | ||
5 | Wuhan, China | 167 | 241.2K | ||
6 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 165 | 86.7K | ||
7 | Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan | 164 | 25.7K | ||
8 | Shanghai, China | 162 | 2.0M | ||
9 | Delhi, India | 161 | 1.5M | ||
10 | Hangzhou, China | 160 | 201.5K |
Map From Monday 28 Feb 2022 IQAIR.com
Meanwhile, inhabitants in Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Raiwind, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur and Multan had to experience difficulties as theri cities too remained blanketed by fog.
Lahore’s particle matter was measured at 176 today.
According to the findings, the city’s polluted air comprises both solid and liquid particles, as well as harmful gases.
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