Hong Kong Island has around 1,289,001 inhabitants (I'm the last '1'). Since it only has 80 square kilometres, population density is over 16,000 people/km^2. If we include Kowloon as well (the most populated are in continental Hong Kong), total surface would add up to 88km^2, and population would total around 3 million. Which means the population density would be over 35,000 people per square kilmetre!
Australia averages 2.6 people/km^2 (as a whole country). New York, as the most densely populated city in the U.S. has over 10 thousand people per square kilometre. It looks like there is no consensus about the most populated city in the world, but the ones fighting for first place are Dhaka, in Bangladesh, Lagos, in Nigeria, Mumbai, in India and Hong Kong, in... here.
According to some geography-oriented websites, 90% of the world's population use only 10% of the land, and 90% of the earth's inhabitants live above the equator. I feel like I abandoned my family to be a minority.
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