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10 Most Crowded Islands of the World


Santa Cruz del Islote
Santa Cruz del Islote is unofficially the world’s most crowded island. It has some 90 houses and a population of around 700 people, which can rise to 1200 when the children who attend secondary school on the mainland visit their families. 

Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Island has a population of 1.2 million at a density of 16,390/km², as of 2008. The population is heavily concentrated along the northern shore where the density is 26,000 per km². 

Manhattan
Manhattan, an island at the mouth of the Hudson River, is the most densely populated and the oldest of the five boroughs of New York City. With a population of 1.58 million there are 26,924 residents per km², more dense than any individual American city. Manhattan is the third-largest of New York's five boroughs in population, but the smallest borough in land area.

Salsette Island
Salsette Island is located in the Arabian Sea on India's west coast. The metropolis of Mumbai, the city of Thane and Mira-Bhayandar lie on this island, making it a very populous island and one of the most densely populated island in the world. It has about 15.1 million inhabitants living on an area of about 619 km² amounting to a population density of 24,414 /km2.

Venice
Venice in northeast Italy is situated on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.In 2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice.

Fadiouth
Joal-Fadiouth is a village at the end of the Petite Côte of Senegal, south-east of Dakar. Joal lies on the mainland, while Fadiouth, linked by a bridge, lies on an island of clam shells, which are also used in local architecture and crafts. The island is home to some 39 thousand residents according to the census of 2007.

Malé
Located at the southern edge of North Malé Atoll, Malé is the capital and most populous city in the Republic of Maldives. Slightly less than one third of the nation's population lives in the capital city, and the population has increased from 20,000 people in 1987 to 100,000 people in 2006.

Ebeye
Ebeye is the most populous island of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, as well as the center for Marshallese culture in the Ralik Chain of the archipelago. Settled on 80 acres (360,000 m²) of land, it has a population of more than 15,000. Over 50% of the population is estimated to be under the age of 18.

Vasilyevsky Island
Vasilyevsky Island is located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the rivers Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva in the south and northeast, and by the Gulf of Finland in the west. The island has a population of 203,181 as of 2002.

Lübeck
he Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the capital of the Hanseatic League ("Queen of the Hanse") and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In 2005 it had a population of 213,983.

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