Thursday 27 June 2013

Hasima the most densely populated place on earth

Since the 1930s, the Japanese island of Hasima was the most densely populated place on Earth. On an area with a coastline of about 1 kilometer there were more than 5,000 people. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility.. However, by 1974, all the inhabitants of the island is abandoned . Hasima now - it's a ghost town with abandoned buildings and opened to tourists .

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