A report in February commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) may have wrongly marked out Moradabad, in Uttar Pradesh, as the second-noisiest city in the world.
The report, Frontiers 2022: Noise, Blazes and Mismatches has a chapter Listening to Cities: From Noisy Environments to Positive Soundscapes delves into the harm from excessive noise levels and illustrates the decibel range of noise levels in 60 cities around the world.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, is marked out as having the highest sound levels — 119 decibels (dB). Next on the list is Moradabad, India, with a value of 114 dB and followed by Islamabad, Pakistan, with a max dB of 105.
