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A city of organized chaos —. Before it was demolished in 1994, Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was considered the densest settlement on earth, with 33,000 people living within the space of one ...
Dec 6, 2018 · Slightly north of Hong Kong Island there once stood one of the most densely populated places on earth. From the 1950s until 1994, over 33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City, a ...
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Kowloon Walled City was an extremely densely populated and largely ungoverned enclave of China within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an Imperial Chinese military fort, the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898. Its population increased dramatically ...
Jan 6, 2020 · Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years. Destination Guide. ... opposite the Kowloon Peninsula. Hong Kong. In 1843, the Chinese began to ...
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Oct 4, 2023 · For several decades in the second half of the 20th century, the Kowloon Walled City — an enclave within the sprawling city of Hong Kong — was far and away the most densely populated place in the world. By the late 1980s, at least 30,000 people were living inside, in a space only 6.4 acres in size, or roughly 0.01 of a square mile.
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Dec 21, 2023 · 39 Photos Of Kowloon Walled City, Once The Most Crowded Place In The World. Known as the "City of Darkness," Kowloon Walled City was a largely ungoverned Chinese enclave in British Hong Kong that contained up to 35,000 people by the 1980s. Cities are dynamic places, urban jungles where people pack together in densely clustered buildings.
Dec 7, 2021 · At its peak, an estimated 50,000 people lived in Kowloon Walled City confined to an area covering one-hundredth of a square mile (0.026 square kilometer). That made Kowloon Walled City the most densely populated city on Earth with the equivalent of 1.9 million residents per square kilometer compared to Hong Kong's overall density of just 6,700 ...
