Over the past years, I’ve been living in different cities, all of them being completely different, compared with the others. I have been living in Paris, which is a big city in Europe, with a large suburban neighborhood, too (la banlieue).
Then, I’ve been living in Hong Kong, which is a larger city, in Asia.
It was crowded. I mean, it was the feeling I had, while I was living there. And more recently, I’ve been living in Montréal, in North America. Montreal is a large city. Or to be more specific, an island,
The three cities are quite different. Paris, 2.211 million unhabitants, and 105,4 km² (density 21,057 unhabitants per km²). Montréal, 1.621 million unhabitants, and three times wider 365.1 km² (density 4,441 unhabitants per km²). Hong Kong, 7.234 million unhabitants, and again three times wider 1,104 km² (density 6,553 unhabitants per km²). In Hong Kong, there are several hill where it is not possible to build anything: on a large part of the island, the density is null.
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