An analysis cited in multiple reports finds that India is among four countries with the largest number of cities exposed to extreme heat risk. The study examines 205 of the world’s largest cities and ranks the locations based on vulnerability and danger levels as global temperatures rise. It identifies Iraq’s city of Al Basrah as the world’s most at-risk city, followed by Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
The analysis reports that India, along with Pakistan, Nigeria and Ghana, together account for the largest share of cities at risk from extreme heat. It also finds that more than 95% of the most at-risk cities are concentrated in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Among the Indian cities included in the top 50 at-risk list are Nagpur and Pune (Maharashtra), Madurai and Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Bengaluru (Karnataka), and Kanpur and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh). The reporting attributes the ranking to research published in the journal *Sustainable Cities and Society*, led by Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, a researcher at the University of Oxford in the UK.
