The Densest City in Human History: A Rare Look Inside Kowloon Walled City

For nearly half a century, a 6.4-acre patch of land in Hong Kong became the most densely populated place that has ever existed on Earth. Roughly 33,000 people lived stacked inside 350 interconnected buildings, fourteen stories tall, fused into a single self-built megastructure where no architect had drawn a plan and no government had ever quite been in charge. How we make our videos: Camera: Sony a6400 Microphone: Shure SM7B Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 XLR Cable: Mogami Gold XLR Cable Green Screen: Neewer Green Screen Teleprompter: Neewer Teleprompter Production Credits: Scripts: Ken Weiss Storyboard: Ken Weiss Video Editor: Dalton Sturm Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress CC BY 2.0 Photos from: Flickr User: Ken OHYAMA CC BY-SA 3.0 Photos from: Wikipedia User: Archangelselect CC BY-SA 4.0 Photos from: Wikipedia User: Wpcpey, Ian Lambot, Lord Jaraxxus Assets from: Envato Elements Music from Epidemic Sound