Over the past decades, the world's population has begun to increase at a tremendous pace, and therefore the endless increase in the urban population does not surprise anyone. Two tens of millions of people can live in one city, and even more - Chinese and Indian megacities prove this. However, population is one issue, and population density is another.
There are cities in the world with huge density indicators - it seems that people there literally walk around each other. Top 5 will allow you to consider cities where the number of people per square kilometer creates real problems.
Fifth Place - Shanghai
Despite the fact that it is Shanghai with its more than 14 million inhabitants that is perceived as a synonym for a huge crowd of people, it occupies only the fifth position in this rating. There is an average of 18.630 people per 1 square kilometer of space. This huge anthill is one of the most powerful industrial centers in China, which is characterized by serious environmental problems.Sometimes there is even nothing to breathe here, local authorities installed oxygen booths several years ago, which allow residents of the smog-covered area to breathe at least occasionally.
Fourth place - Karachi
The city of Karachi is located in Pakistan, and In total, about 10 million people live in it.. Wherein population density is huge and it is 18.900 inhabitants per square kilometer. And if it is still possible to imagine this with the Chinese Shanghai, because the city consists of skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, then the situation here is completely incomprehensible and comical, because there are no such benefits of civilization, and the city is represented mainly by low buildings of a couple of floors.
Third Place - Dhaka
Many people have not even heard about this city, but meanwhile, it is the capital of Bangladesh and ranks third in terms of population density worldwide! There are not so many people in the city, by the standards of megacities, of course. The population is less than 10 million people, but for every square kilometer of the area there are 23.029 people! People flock to the capital of their state in search of a better life, and the features of the relief and the terrain as a whole do not allow them to settle wider, which creates such a pandemonium.
Second Place - Calcutta
The population density in the capital of Bangladesh is huge, but the Indians were able to stay even denser. In Calcutta, there are more than 14 million people, this is a large metropolitan area, which consists of several settlements that have become one. The possibility of distributing people among the surrounding territories did not represent any interest for local residents, and they apparently like to live in such crowding. The population density in the city is 23.900 people per square kilometer space.
The most populous city in the world
The most populous city in the world - Mumbai. The Indians' love of life in crowding is confirmed by the fact that the Indian city also becomes the undisputed leader in this rating. In the past, it was called Bombay - in those days when people have not walked here literally on each other. Currently, about 14 million people live in the city, and for every square kilometer of the area there are 28.515 people! If you calculate the total area of this settlement, and divide it into local residents, it turns out that each person has 35 square meters. And it’s one thing if such an area was provided in the apartment - such is the space per person in the whole city, including its built-up and undeveloped sections, roads and obstacles!
High-rise buildings for Indian cities are a luxury that can only be seen in the center. And the rest of the territory is occupied by numerous slum areas with houses on one floor, or more prosperous options in 2-3 floors, no more.
What about Moscow?
The population density in Moscow is especially felt in the subway in the morning, which is actively complained by local residents and visitors. But in fact, the indicator density for the most populous metropolis of Russia is 4834 people per square kilometer. Compared to the leaders of the world ranking, this is not much at all, especially since 12.5 million people live in the capital of Russia. There are other data that take into account not only local residents, but also the visiting population, and in this case, the density is indicated already at 9682 people per square kilometer.
But even in this case, Moscow does not even reach the 10th place in the world ranking, being in the second ten taking into account newcomers, and far beyond the 30th, if only official data are taken into account. Moscow traffic jams and crowds in the subway are trifles compared to what can be seen in the world, especially in Asian countries.
