Densest Part of New Population Map

[spartyon]

I was bored and was trying to find the part of the new map with the most people covered with one station. The most i got was 435,000 in Cairo in a section east of the Nile. A part of Kowloon in Hong Kong was a close second. Mumbai was third. Anyone able to find anything denser?

[Thepolwoman]

And again a new spot: Dhaka (Bangladesh), to the northwest, slightly west-south-west of the marker of Purba Kazipura at 580k

And yet another edit: Mira, India has 498k at its peak just to the southwest of it's marker near the main road

New edit: Thane, India (north of Mumbai) has more than 460k, in the curve of the highway just northwest of the location marker

Earlier suggestion I did: Kinshasa (DR Congo), found a spot with 438,000 a few minutes earlier. Edit: look for Bumbu and Ngiri-Ngiri in Kinshasa

Tropical locations are the best to look for due to the mercator projection containing more actual area in a catchment area of a train station.

[robertklein78]

Yes, but to move all those people can be quite tricky, a big challenge to do so without too many compensations.

[david_neibig]

Found a spot in Lagos that's a touch over 500k

[spartyon]

Nice. Wouldn't have thought about the tropics having more coverage because of the Mercator projection. I was spending most of my time looking in Asia and the Middle East. Somehow missed Bangladesh all together

[Thepolwoman]

Yup, there might even be a more dense place but that would be even harder to find. Bangladesh is incredibly dense as a country and Dhaka is the epitome of that all. It was really nice to scan parts of the map and I was enthousiast at my first finding, but then kept discovering more for which I had to amend my comment constantly.

I also looked at a lot of ASEAN cities but even Manila, Bangkok, Saigon (Ho Chi Minh), Yangon and Phnom Penh didn't come close while from earlier experience I knew Jakarta doesn't come close to that minimum threshold of 435k, despite the city being dense, massive and just 6 degrees away from the equator. Lagos came really close to the 435k, also looked at Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa, Addis Ababa, Mogadishu, Dar es Salaam etc, none got over the 438k that I initially found for Kinshasa. I could've looked further along the coast of West Africa, maybe Khartoum, Karachi too, and even though I think it won't be in the Americas, I still hadn't taken a look there (apart from that I know NYC densities are high, but not remotely close to those in the tropics... Mercator at it again).

[patrickov]

I am rather surprised that Singapore isn't mentioned. It's 1 degree from the equator so if it isn't that dense, kudos to the Lees for having superb city planning.