Also, does Kathmandu have a gigantic park bringing down the average?

They probably made the distinction because it's far denser than the other boroughs. Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx are mid-sized cities with downtowns and residential areas. Manhattan's a super-city with several downtowns, and almost no single-family homes.

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The top 6 here are all the same metro area. IMO that should just be one entry rather than six. But it's always hard to compare cities due to weird boundaries and urban sprawl.

Seeing how a bunch of these are neighborhoods, I'm willing to bet OP doesn't know enough about other places such as HK to cherry pick the neighborhoods. HK's total density isn't very high because it includes the new territories, which is just a bunch of mountains really

And they're still drawfed by the entirety of Manila.

I’m questioning the validity of this. You’re telling me Paris is more densely packed than Mumbai or Delhi? Surely there should be Indian cities, Mexico City or Tokyo on the list.

I agree it's crazy, but there has to be some metric that determines the denominator

Very likely, or just another attempt at karma farm, those things are running rampant these days.

Well it was a largely ungoverned district that was sort of under British control and sort of under Chinese control, but neither side wanted to exercise that control and it became largely lawless and unregulated. It doesn’t exist today because they tore it down. It was a hotbed of organized crime, as well as a public health and safety disaster. It’s not directly comparable to these other fully formed and governed municipalities. But it was a real place where people did indeed live in unimaginable density not seen anywhere else before or since.

Pretty sick return for most banks. They love jacking up the credit limit for the financially illiterate who keep a revolving balance so they keep paying outrageous finance charges.

surprised china isnt on this list.

I've lived in Manhattan and visited Kathmandu, and there's no way the latter has greater density than the former. For one thing, there are few residential skyscrapers there.

In fact, looking this up, Manhattan's density is around 27,000 per square kilometer vs. Kathmandu's 20,000.

EDIT: Looking closer, I see that K’s population when I visited, in 1999, was one third what it is today, so they’re closer than I would have thought. But still not very close.

Definitely a load of bs, not really cities. I think this must be content made by a bot or just clickbait material

This is poorly done

Is KWC it's own municipality though

My ex was from Central America. The women in his family (and his friend’s families) scurried around doing housework, childcare, and cooking ALL DAY LONG. Yet their houses always looked messy. I never understood it.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks!

Kowloon Walled City was almost 50 times denser than Manila. 50,000 people in the footprint of about 25 average American single family home lots. The numbers just defy comprehension.

Card balances means that the issuer is paying merchants but not getting paid back by the card holder. It also implies a higher risk of default. You don't make money on interest until you start getting paid back.

Im confused, why is this the case? I would assume that the card balances being higher means they can charge less interest for the same revenue. Is it not the card balances that are being charged interest?

HK, Macao, Singapore, Tokyo not on this? Skeptical.

It's an average over ages 15-64. So they're including a lot of people whose work hours are close to 0, which is going to lower the average.

the map is about population density not population

I mean, card interest rates should loosely track balances. If more people are holding a balance that means the issuer needs higher rates to maintain the same revenue. Obviously the latest increase has much more to do with interest rate increases, but the fact that these two are tightly intertwined is very unsurprising.