Delhi

Delhi - darkometer rating : 4 - The capital city of India – and one of the largest (and most polluted) metropolises in the world. For the dark tourist it's not just the principal entry point for India but also offers a few dark-tourism sights itself. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: Delhi is huge, really huge. At over 25 million inhabitants it's one of the most populous cities in the world. Its historic core is Old Delhi , but India 's seat of government is New Delhi . The wider metropolitan area is sprawling far beyond these two kernels, making it also one of the world's largest cities by area. It is a “megapolis”. Delhi is sadly infamous for its extremely poor air quality . Smog is a persistent problem and is causing plenty of serious health issues. A few years ago the World Health Organization even declared Delhi the most polluted city in the world! It has since dropped a little in that unflattering league table and anyway, that table only includes cities where such measurements are taken at all (and in many of Africa's certainly at least equally polluted cities this is not happening, so take such tables with a grain of salt). In 2016, however, the US Environmental Protection Agency put New Delhi at the top of its most-polluted city table again.