SEVERE ENVIRONMENTS TO LIVE IN

NEPAL

This is an especially harsh place to live in if you’re a woman. Here,

women get married off and have kids as early as 14. This adds to

an alarming statistic of women who die giving birth because of lack of

proper medical care. Sex trafficking is also rampant in Nepal and girls

who aren’t married by the time they’re 18 enter the trade.

SIERRA LEONE

War and poverty practically define this small country in Africa, not to

mention, its blood diamond crisis. The country is still on a downward

spiral and living here isn’t preferred by anybody.

CHAD

At present, this country contains central Africa’s primary water source

in Lake Chad. However, this source has since started to dry up,

leaving this African nation to suffer from drought and famine. Add to this

the overwhelming number of Darfurian refugees getting into the

country and you can start to see the exponential problem at hand.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Decades of war and genocides have torn this African country apart

and the humanitarian crisis happening there is nothing short of disastrous.

Despite the country being one of the continents’ biggest and richest

regarding minerals, the people rarely see any profit made from its

resources.

SUDAN

Similar to other African nations in this list, murder is rampant in Sudan.

The country’s president has even been declared a criminal by the

International Criminal Court.

ZIMBABWE

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president, ran its economy to the ground,

to say the least. Now, what used to be a wealthy nation is now one of

the poorest in the world. Worth mentioning is that $1 U.S. dollar is equal

to about 47,000,000 of their currency.

PRIPYAT

This Ukrainian city is best known for what happened during the Chernobyl

Nuclear Power Plant meltdown forcing the evacuation of the entire city.

Now, the only residents there are wildlife.

NORTH KOREA

Nearly a million people die of starvation here yearly and it’s only getting

worse since the state decided to put all of its funding into building

up its nuclear arsenal.