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The Most Crowded Place On Earth

The Most Crowded Place On Earth
Issue 8 SEPT 2015

If you love people watching, Mong Kok is the place to be – if you can stand the crowds.

For this Hong Kong district is believed to be the most densely populated place on planet Earth.

With more than 340,000 people per square mile, nothing comes close.

Charles Reynolds, though, who has lived and worked in Hong Kong for the past nine years, says it doesn’t feel overly crowded.

“I have been to other places where it’s just chaotic and people cannot move,” he said.

“But in Mong Kok the foot traffic flows quite nicely.”

Just about everything you can imagine is bought, sold or haggled over in Mong Kok where there are entire streets dedicated to selling luck-bringing goldfish, flowers, kitchenware and bath tubs.