The Blacksmith Institute, founded in 1999, is a New York City based organization supporting pollution-related environmental projects. One such project is the Polluted Places Initiative, which identifies polluted sites throughout the world by means of an online nomination process.^[1] This article is about the year. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

As of September 2007, the Institute lists the following as the world's ten most polluted places (in alphabetical order):^[2]

• Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Dzerzhinsk, Russia
• Kabwe, Zambia
• La Oroya, Peru
• Linfen, China
• Norilsk, Russia
• Sukinda, India
• Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
• Tianying, China
• Vapi, India

This article is about the city of Chernobyl. ... Dzerzhinsk (Дзержинск) is a city of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia along the Oka River, about 240km east of Moscow. ... Kabwe is the capital of the Zambian Central Province. ... La Oroya is a city in Junín Region, Peru. ... Línfén (Traditional Chinese: 臨汾; Simplified Chinese: 临汾) is a prefecture-level city in southern Shanxi province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Norilsk downtown was designed in a typical Stalinist style. ... Sumqayit is located about 30 kilometers (approximiately 20 miles) northwest of Azerbaijans capital Baku, near the Caspian Sea. ... Vapi (IAST: vāpÄ«, gu: વાપી, hi: वापी) is one of the important cities in the state of Gujarat, (India) (District: Valsad) in terms of industries. ...

Also mentioned

• Dandora, Kenya
• Matanza-Riacheulo River Basin, Argentina
• Hazaribagh, Bangladesh
• DongYangHuaxi, China
• Lanzhou, China
• [[Urumqi, China
• Wanshan, China
• Haina, Dominican Republic
• Oriente, Ecuador
• Mahad Industrial Estate, India
• Ranipet, India
• Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
• Maluu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan
• Mexico City, Mexico
• Huancavelica, Peru
• Meycauayan, Philippines
• Bratsk, Russia
• Chita, Russia
• Magnitogorsk, Russia
• Rudnaya Pristan, Russia

The Institute has operated in China since 2002.^[3] Dandora is an eastern suburb in Nairobi, Kenya. ... , Hazaribagh (Hindi: हजारीबाग) is a city and a municipality in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. ... Lanzhou (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Lan-chou; Postal map spelling: Lanchow) is the capital of and a prefecture-level city in the Gansu province, China. ... Haina (Kloster) is a community in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northwest Hesse, Germany. ... Statistics Capital: Santiago de Cuba Area: 6,170km² Inhabitants: 1,016,600 Population Density: 164. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ranipettai. ... Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakh: Өскемен, Russian: Усть-Каменогорск) or Öskemen, is the capital of the Shyghys Qazaqstan (Eastern Kazakhstan) Oblast. ... Nickname: Motto: Ciudad en movimiento Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... Huancavelica is a city in Peru. ... Meycauayan is a municipality in the province of Bulacan in the Philippines. ... Bratsk is a Russian city in the Irkutsk Oblast in eastern Siberia. ... Chita may refer to one of the following. ... A steel production facility in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s Magnitogorsk Magnitogorsk (Russian: ) is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country. ... Rudnaya Pristan (Russian: ) is an rural settlement located at the mouth of the Rudnaya River, on the Pacific coast of Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. ...

References

1. ^ Harvey, Fiona. "Planet’s most polluted sites unveiled", The Financial Times, September 12 2007. 
2. ^ World's Worst Polluted Places 2007. The Blacksmith Institute (September 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
3. ^ China Development Brief: Directory of International NGOs

The Financial Times building The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External link

• Official website of the Blacksmith Institute