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World’s hottest city is in UP: What’s making Banda so unbearably hot?

Banda, a district in Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region, has repeatedly recorded the world’s highest temperatures, becoming a man-made heat island. Experts attribute this to barren terrain, vanishing green cover, relentless sand mining, and drying rivers, creating a vicious cycle of extreme heat. This situation is exacerbated by dry westerly winds and a lack of adequate winter rainfall.

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