Beijing on a sunny day

I walk over this overpass every day.  Today was a relatively NON-smoggy day.

Beijing is considered to be the world's 16th most populated contiguous urban area,

with approximately 14,170,000 people as of 2011.  For comparison,

New York City was ranked as the 7th most populated contiguous urban area, and Los Angeles

is considered closest to Beijing, at #15, with 14,940,000.

I've never seen this much smog in NYC, but I can say that Beijing gives LA a run for

its money in the smog department.