10,000: estimated number of Parisians who can be awoken by “a single unmuffled scooter” in the middle of the night
53,942: number of loudspeakers removed from religious places across the state of Uttar Pradesh, India
60,295: number of loudspeakers from religious places across the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, whose volume has been lowered
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¹Footnotes
France: [bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-27/how-paris-is-waging-a-war-on-noise-pollution). India: [business-standard.com](https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/up-police-removes-over-53-000-loudspeakers-sound-level-lowered-for-60-000-122050100122_1.html).
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