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Hyderabad, India with man spitting and shitting on the streets in between the piles of dirt. Egypt, with long stretched fields full of garbage around El Gouna and Marsa Alam. In Java and Bali Indonesia the hygiene habits are less than desirable as well, like storing the fresh fish for the restaurant in the mandi-bassin in the toilet, a smashed cockroach plastered in the wall in a restaurant with ants marching around it, or children playing in the river with a man shitting in the river just a few meters upstream.

Russia. Especially North-Western parts. Towns look like a nuclear disaster happened there. It is not just dirty but everything is literally ruined. But the nature around is amazing.

Portland. I honestly love the city. But holy shit is it filthy

Kampala, Uganda

Either Indonesia or Cuba - Bali in general is filthy with garage everywhere. Cuba is a slightly different kind of filthy with stray animal poop everywhere, garbage, and drug accessories all over the streets in non tourist areas

While I don't like to highlight the negative aspects of travel, the sanitation issues in Kathmandu, Nepal, were very apparent. The city is beautiful and the people are wonderful, but there is a clear waste management problem. Seeing people throw trash in the street or rivers, and having no real municipal garbage collection, can be quite a shock compared to what one might be used to. This shouldn't deter you from visiting, but it's a reality that I think travelers should be aware of and be respectful of. Every place has its challenges and acknowledging them is the first step to change.

Jamaica had lots of garbage/litter. Stream clogged with it (2019). Obvious human trafficking. Paris stunk like piss and the subway dirty. Throw in the gypsies using kids to beg and pickpockets and you have to squint to see the beauty that is there. (2017).

Throwing in Athens. Grafitti (not the pretty murals kind, random tags and words everywhere on storefronts and public spaces), trash around the street and such. And it's so dark on the streets, it was the first time that I felt worried walking alone as a woman in Europe.

I was warned several times by friends that I would not like Athens. I told them that my favorite places to visit are the cities (not nature)...they were right.

Lisbon. Smells like pee!

Jakarta for Asia, Napoli for Europe, LA for America (still living here, unfortunately)

Kolkata

San José, Costa Rica. Trash everywhere in a way I’ve never seen before…

Cairo, Egypt. I literally saw a guy pooping on the street and some parts of the city were super dirty and unkempt.

Palermo Italy

India. Then US. Then maybe Philippines.

Seattle, especially Capitol Hill. Trash (both literally and human-alike), graffiti, needles, piss... Even in the train and busses.

Jakarta, Indonesia.

Only in that one area with all of the graffiti

New York

Parts of Lima, Peru and Manila

San Francisco

Mumbai, the first week of monsoon season.

got lost in LA one night and ended up walking thru Skid Row. that and the metro were both filthy, especially for a first world county

Ramallah, except for a small area around the presidental palace.

Siem Reap

Los Angeles. This is where I learned to differentiate human and dog feces.

And as others said: India anywhere.

In Europe: Skopje.

Kabul is filthy and the air quality is that bad that most of it is airborne fecal matter.

Paris and India

Some of my student accommodation in the early 00s

New Delhi. Amritsar. Mumbai. Varanasi. Manila.

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Karachi, Pakistan

New Delhi

I have a bunch but if I had to choose, it would be Mumbai. That was years ago though hopefully that has changed.

Very close to Mumbai is New York, Washington D.C, Bali, and London

A Chinese oil rig. It was just slightly dirtier than the Indian one.

Hands down, Indian cities.

The worst I've seen was in Benaras (Vanarasi) where bodies are burned close to the Ganjes, in addition to everything else.

Delhi is also pretty dirty.

Mumbai not as much but still very poluted.

I've never been outside of Europe so my frame of reference is small, but Catania. I heard that it's dirty but I did not expect the amount of trash and stink on the streets. I was shocked at the number of overflowing bins everywhere, littering, and grime. I don't come from a nice clean city either, so it's not like I had high expectations 😅

San Francisco.

Soi 4 Bkk, soi 6 Pattaya.

What about Goa?

Dhaka, Bangladesh. I spent a few months in multiple cities in India and Bangladesh and everywhere I went was extremely dirty. Kolkata is dirty but honestly it is somewhat livable and it is getting cleaner in the last few years. But Dhaka stood out in a big way and it’s probably the worst place I have ever been to and I am never going back.

Lisbon, Portugal

Benin City, Nigeria

NYC(specifically Manhattan) on trash day in the summer

San Francisco! I was grosssd out even wearing my shoes in our hotel room from all of the pee everywhere

Sicily (Catania) was shocking to me. So much beautiful old architecture in disrepair, plastered with graffiti, trash and the smell of piss and cigarettes. In contrast southern Spain which is also one of the EU's economically weakest areas feels spotlessly clean a lot of the time and so much better taken care of.

Peak Parisian garbage strikes were pretty wild.

My in-laws house…big reason I’m buying an RV

India. Just about any city. The air pollution, the smell of human waste, piles of plastic waste everywhere. Rats everywhere. Locals spitting strange red stuff on walls everywhere. Restaurants that put a used cup from one table on your table after just shaking the water out, no cleaning.

Jakarta was pretty nasty on air pollution too, I felt sticky all over just being outside for half an hour.

Netherlands is dirty in its own way. Everything looks clean but people don't wash their hands after going to the toilet, like that's just not a thing there. Now imagine all the things those people touch that you also touch. Also they don't use gloves when handling food. Now imagine those two things together. Gross.

Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai. India in general is fairly dirty. Also San Francisco, CA is a refuge for human scum.