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Kowloon Walled City

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Calloon Walled City

Calloon walled city was, at its height, the densest place anywhere ever. It had a populatiande of about three point two million people per square mile. That means that kelhoon wall city was about forty six times as dense as manhattan is. If manhattan wanted to get anywhere close to that kind of density, every man, woman and child living in texas would have move there.

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