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‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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More than 20 million people woke last week to a thick, acrid, and noxious smog that settled densely across the Indian capital.

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comparing New Delhi (an area of 43km2) to the Beijing metropolitan area (16400km2)... Nice.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was actually a mistake on my part, thank you for catching that. It looks like the National Capital Territory of Delhi with a population of 16.8 million would be the better comparison? And that has an even higher density

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's a different definition of metropolitan area, I think. A lot of Beijing's area is extremely sparsely populated, moreso than Delhi's.