Dhaka--the most crowded place mentioned, at 44,500 people per sq. km. (about 72,000 per sq. mi.)--is more crowded that the most densely populated US cities (or places). The most densely populated US city/town is (according to Wikipedia) Guttenberg, NJ, at 57,000 per sq. mi., which would get into 3rd place on that list. NYC as a whole comes in at 27,000 per sq. mi. Redondo Beach (10,600 per sq. mi/) comes in at 132nd. #10 on this list (Jakarta, about 16,000 per sq. mi.) is about the same as Jersey City, which is 28th in the US. (Indianapolis, where I live, comes in at 2,000, virtually deserted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density
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Wow indeed. This almost makes Midtown Manhattan look like the Australian Outback by comparison.
Dhaka--the most crowded place mentioned, at 44,500 people per sq. km. (about 72,000 per sq. mi.)--is more crowded that the most densely populated US cities (or places). The most densely populated US city/town is (according to Wikipedia)
Guttenberg, NJ, at 57,000 per sq. mi., which would get into 3rd place on that list. NYC as a whole comes in at 27,000 per sq. mi. Redondo Beach (10,600 per sq. mi/) comes in at 132nd. #10 on this list (Jakarta, about 16,000 per sq. mi.) is about the same as Jersey City, which is 28th in the US. (Indianapolis, where I live, comes in at 2,000, virtually deserted).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density
Things like this always remind me of Tom Wolfe's essay on the behavioral sink.
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