In 1987 Kowloon Walled City packed 33,000 people into six and a half acres
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76TT6)
By 1987, Kowloon Walled City held an estimated 33,000 residents on 2.6 hectares - "approximately 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometer (3 million per square mile)," according to Wikipedia, making it one of the most densely populated places on Earth. The 1898 convention that leased the New Territories to Britain excluded the old Chinese fort, leaving an enclave claimed by two governments and governed by neither. - Read the rest
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