From the 1950s until 1994, over 33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City, a massive complex of 300 interconnected buildings that took up a city block. Caught between China and the ...

Hong Kong’s humidity – already oppressive – was intensified in the dark, maze-like alleyways of an unruly enclave known as Kowloon Walled City. Then the most densely populated place on ...

A walled city with tens of thousands of residents living inside its tightly-packed buildings was once a settlement where anarchy and gangs reigned supreme. Kowloon Walled City was a chaotic and ...

It’s been 20 years (to the month) since Kowloon Walled City was demolished, but amazingly, it remains one of the most dense structures ever built. As many as 33,000 people crammed into the seven ...

It was called Kowloon Walled City. With a population of 33,000 squeezed into the tiny lot, the city was 119 times denser at its peak than present-day New York City. Although it faced high levels ...

Amid the neon-lit haze of 1960s Hong Kong, the notorious Kowloon Walled City loomed in the distance. It was once dubbed the most densely populated place on Earth, housing tens of thousands of ...

It doesn’t take too many twists and turns on the internet before you reach something about Kowloon Walled City. Or maybe that’s just me. I’m fascinated by extreme, unique places, and the ...