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I would love to see this infographic with the Kowloon Walled City at its heyday.


With the density of Kwoloon Walled City (~1,255,000/km^2 in 1987 according to wikipedia), the earth's population would comfortably fit in Delaware[0]: 6.9 billion people would fit into 5498km^2, DE is 6447km^2

Worldwide, the best match would be Olt in Romania (http://goo.gl/maps/i8I02) which is precisely 5498km^2

For full-fledged countries, Brunei[1] at 5765km^2

[0] US map for scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Delaware_in_United_States_...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunei




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