# Most-Populated Buildings

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I don’t know enough about the details to be sure … but I wonder if some or all of the former Kowloon Walled City could have been considered a single highly populated building.

The diagram below indicated “500 buildings”, but I get the impression that many of these various buildings sort of “coalesced” into a much smaller number of “super-structures” over the years.

[![](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/516e/df02/b3fc/4b8f/6900/0136/large_jpg/scm_news_1.1.nws_backart1_1_0.jpg?1366220526) ](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/516e/df02/b3fc/4b8f/6900/0136/large_jpg/scm_news_1.1.nws_backart1_1_0.jpg?1366220526)

> **[Kowloon Walled City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City)**
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> Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Imperial Chinese enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the walled city became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom by China in 1898. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. By 1990, the walled city contained 50,000...

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