List of the most densely populated administrative units in the world

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List of the most densely populated administrative units in the world

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Subdivision	City	Country	Inhabitants per km² Square kilometre Square kilometre , symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units....	Population	Area (km²)
Marine Lines Marine Lines Marine Lines is an area in South Mumbai. It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway railway line....	Mumbai Mumbai Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...	India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....	114,001	202,922	1.8
Dhaka Kotwali Thana Dhaka Kotwali Thana Dhaka Kotwali is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh....	Dhaka Dhaka Dhaka ? formerly Dacca and Jahangir Nagar, is the Capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia....	Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south....	101,693	210,504	2.07
St. Anthony Parish St. Anthony Parish Anthony of Padua Parish is a western region of the Macau Peninsula, in the former Portugal Portuguese Empire of Macau, in the People's Republic of China....	Macau Macau The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....	China People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....	98,776	109,000	1.1
Gopipura	Surat Surat Surat is a seaport city in the Indian Indian state of Gujarat and administrative headquarters of the Surat District. As of 2007, Surat and its metropolitan area had a population about the same size as Singapore, approximately 4 million....	India	87,773	19,310	0.22
Sutrapur Thana Sutrapur Thana Sutrapur is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh....	Dhaka	Bangladesh	70,202	30,7483	4.38
Wadifalia	Surat	India	68,229	9,552	0.14
Salabatpura	Surat	India	66,280	55,675	0.84
Tondo District Tondo, Manila Tondo is a Manila#Districts of Manila, Philippines. It was a Muslim principality and the hereditary stronghold of the Local Rajahs during the pre-colonial period....	Manila Manila The 'City of Manila' , or simply 'Manila', is the Capital of the Philippines and one of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila....	Philippines Philippines The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....	64,796	589,644	9.1
Dadar Dadar Dadar is a place in Mumbai, and has a railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway on both the Western Railway line and the Central Railway line ....	Mumbai	India	64,168	582,007	9.1
Sonifalia	Surat	India	60,108	14,426	0.24
Shahpor	Surat	India	59,654	23,265	0.39
Byculla Byculla Byculla or Bhaykhala is a neighbourhood in South Mumbai. It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Central Railway line....	Mumbai	India	59,505	440,335	7.4
Sagrampura	Surat	India	59,020	77,316	1.31
Grant Road Grant Road Grant Road , named after Robert Grant , who was the Governor of Bombay between 1835 and 1839, is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai suburban railway....	Mumbai	India	57,744	382,841	6.6
Sanhurst Road	Mumbai	India	56,936	140,633	2.5
District IV	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat L'Hospitalet de Llobregat L'Hospitalet de Llobregat or L'Hospitalet is a city to the immediate southwest of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and the second largest in Catalonia by population....	Spain Spain Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....	55,950	44,773	0.80
Mahidharpura	Surat	India	55,047	19,817	0.36
Haripura	Surat	India	54,626	12,564	0.23
St. Lazarus Parish St. Lazarus Parish St. Lazarus Parish is an east-central region of Macau Peninsula, in the former Portugal Portuguese Empire of Macau, in the People's Republic of China....	Macau	China	52,370	45,600	0.9
District II	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	Spain	52,718	50,072	0.95
Kwun Tong District Kwun Tong District Kwun Tong is one of the districts of Hong Kong of Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon. It had a population of 562,427 in 2001. The district has the third highest population while the income is below average....	Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....	China	51,104	562,427	11.27
St. Lawrence Parish St. Lawrence Parish St. Lawrence Parish is a southwestern region of Macau Peninsula, in the former Portugal Portuguese Empire of Macau, in the People's Republic of China....	Macau	China	50,904	45,600	0.9
Begumpura	Surat	India	49,280	45,830	0.93
Kurla Kurla Kurla is a major suburb of Mumbai. It is also the name of one the busiest railway stations on the Mumbai suburban railway on the central and harbour railway lines of Mumbai....	Mumbai	India	49,006	778,218	15.9
Motijheel Thana Motijheel Thana Motijheel is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh....	Dhaka	Bangladesh	47,692	307,483	4.69
Our Lady Fatima Parish	Macau	China	47,000	126,000	2.7
Huangpu District Huangpu District, Shanghai Huangpu District , also known as New Huangpu, is one of Shanghai's 18 districts. It was combined from old Huangpu and Nanshi districts in 2000 to form the New Huangpu with an area of 12.41 km? and 574,500 inhabitants ....	Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population in China and one of the List of metropolitan areas by population in the world, with over 20 million people....	China	46,253	574,500	12.41
Wong Tai Sin District Wong Tai Sin District Wong Tai Sin District is one of the districts of Hong Kong of Hong Kong, and is the only landlocked district of the city. It is located in Kowloon and has a population of 444,630 ....	Hong Kong	China	46,197	444,630	9.3
Elphinstone Elphinstone There are several places called Elphinstone:* Elphinstone, East Lothian, a village in East Lothian, Scotland.* Elphinstone, Victoria, a town in central Victoria , Australia....	Mumbai	India	45,793	457,931	10.0
District V	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	Spain	44,031	40,094	0.91
Yau Tsim Mong District Yau Tsim Mong District Yau Tsim Mong District is one of Districts of Hong Kong of Hong Kong, located on western Kowloon peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon....	Hong Kong	China	43,168	282,020	6.99
Nanavat	Surat	India	42,943	19,754	0.46
Khar Khar, Mumbai Khar is a suburb of Mumbai, north of Bandra and south of Santa Cruz . For the suburb's corresponding railway station see Khar Road.The suburb of Khar also has the fishermen folk area KharDanda, also known as KharDanda....	Mumbai	India	42,929	580,835	13.5
Manhattan Community Board 8 Manhattan Community Board 8 The Manhattan Community Board 8 is a Government of New York City#Community Boards of New York city, encompassing the List of Manhattan neighborhoods of Upper East Side, Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Roosevelt Island in the borough of Manhattan....	New York City New York City The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....	USA United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...	42,312	217,063	5.13
Malad	Mumbai	India	41,651	796,775	19.1
11th arrondissement XIe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=11th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=The Cirque d'Hiver in the 11th arrondissement.\|map=paris_11e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris Paris Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....	France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....	41,598	152,500	3.67
Yonghe City Yonghe City Yonghe City is a city in the southern part of Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China. It is separated from Taipei City to the north by the Sindian River, although the Chiang Kai-Shek, Fuhe, and Yongfu Bridges connect the two cities....	Taipei County Taipei County Taipei County is located in northern Taiwan and encircles Taipei City. It is south of Keelung, north of Taoyuan County, Taiwan and west of Yilan County, Taiwan....	Taiwan Republic of China The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....	41,139	235,059	5.71
Luwan District Luwan District Luwan District is a district located in central Shanghai, China. It has an area of 8.05 km? and population of 350,000 as of 2001.Luwan district is located directly south of People's Square ....	Shanghai	China	41,010	328,900	8.02
Kowloon City Kowloon City Kowloon City is an list of areas of Hong Kong in Kowloon of Hong Kong. Named after the Kowloon Walled City, it is part of Kowloon City District....	Hong Kong	China	40,722	381,352	10.02
Nanpura	Surat	India	40,429	51,749	1.28
Matunga Matunga Matunga is the name of a Matunga Road on the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is a suburb of Mumbai. This station is called Matunga on the Central line and Matunga Road on the Western line....	Mumbai	India	40,400	524,393	13.0
Jing'an District Jing'an District Jing'an district is one of the central districts of Shanghai. It has an area of 7.62 km?. With 305,300 inhabitants it is one of Shanghai's most densely populated districts....	Shanghai	China	40,079	305,400	7.62
Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po, or Shamshuipo, is a district of Hong Kong, best known for its street market for electronic devices. It is situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui and east of Cheung Sha Wan....	Hong Kong	China	39,262	353,550	9.35
Manhattan Community Board 7 Manhattan Community Board 7 The Manhattan Community Board 7 is a local government unit of the city of New York city, encompassing the List of Manhattan neighborhoods of Manhattan Valley, Upper West Side, and Lincoln Square, New York in the borough of Manhattan....	New York City	United States	37,970	207,699	5.47
Hongkou District Hongkou District Hongkou District is a northern district of Shanghai proper, People's Republic of China. It has a land area of and population of 799,700 as of 2001....	Shanghai	China	36,657	860,700	23.48
Manhattan Community Board 3 Manhattan Community Board 3 The Manhattan Community Board 3 is a local government unit in the New York City borough of Manhattan, encompassing the List of Manhattan neighborhoods of Alphabet City, East Village, Manhattan, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Chinatown, Manhattan and Two Bridges, Manhattan....	New York City	United States	36,054	164,407	4.56
Recoleta Recoleta Recoleta is a Barrios of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This typical "French architecture-style" district is known for its squares, parks, caf?s, galleries and the La Recoleta Cemetery Cementerio de la Recoleta, one of Argentina's most important cemeteries....	Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....	Argentina Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....	34,959	188,780	5.4
Balvanera Balvanera Balvanera is a neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina....	Buenos Aires	Argentina	34,590	152,198	4.4
Almagro Almagro, Buenos Aires Almagro is a mostly middle-class Barrios of Buenos Aires of Buenos Aires.The neighbourhood is delimited by La Plata and R?o de Janeiro streets to the west, Independencia avenue to the south, S?nchez de Bustamante, S?nchez de Loria and Gallo streets to the east, and C?rdoba/Estado de Israel avenues to the north....	Buenos Aires	Argentina	33,966	138,942	4.1
Eastern District Eastern District, Hong Kong The Eastern District is one of the districts of Hong Kong of Hong Kong. It had a population of 616,199 in 2001. The district has the second highest population while its residents have the third highest income....	Hong Kong	China	33,004	616,199	18.7
Saiyadpura	Surat	India	32,650	55,179	1.69
20th arrondissement XXe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=20th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=Rue de M?nilmontant in the 20th arrondissement.\|map=paris_20e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris	France	32,052	191,800	5.98
Xuanwu District Xuanwu District Xuanwu District is a district of the municipality of Beijing. It lies to the southwest of the old city.The district is 16.5 square kilometre in size and is home to 526,132 residents , making it the third-largest district in the old city part of Beijing....	Beijing Beijing is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....	China	31,879	526,000	16.50
18th arrondissement XVIIIe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=18th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=View over Montmartre district in the 18th arrondissement.\|map=paris_18e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris	France	31,424	188,700	6.01
10th arrondissement Xe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=10th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=The Gare du Nord in the 10th arrondissement.\|map=paris_10e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris	France	30,705	88,800	2.89
3rd arrondissement IIIe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=3rd\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers , in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.\|map=paris_3e_arr_jms.gif\|...	Paris	France	29,974	35,100	1.17
Singshing District	Kaohsiung Kaohsiung Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan. It is enclosed by the Kaohsiung County, and faces the Taiwan Strait on the west. As one of two Direct-controlled municipality under the administration of Republic of China , Kaohsiung is officially named as the Kaohsiung City, a Province -level political division....	Taiwan	29,706	58,711	1.98
District III	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	Spain	29,604	40,557	1.37
Breña District Breña Bre?a is a Districts of Peru of the Lima Province in Peru. It is part of Lima city metropolitan area.Officially established as a district on July 15, 1949, the current mayor of Bre?a is Jos? Gordillo Abad....	Lima Lima Lima is the Capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chill?n River, R?mac River and Lur?n River rivers, on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean....	Peru Peru Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....	29,443.5	94,808	3.22
17th arrondissement XVIIe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=17th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=View over the south of the 17th arrondissement and western suburbs in background.\|map=paris_17e_arr_jms.gif\|...	Paris	France	28,277	160,300	5.67
Yangcheon-gu Yangcheon-gu Yangcheon-gu is a gu, or district, of Seoul, South Korea. Located on the southwest side of the Han River . It was known as 'Jechapaui-hyun' during the Goguryeo age, And has gone through several name-changes since....	Seoul Seoul Seoul is the Capital and largest city of South Korea. With a population of over 10 million, It is one of the world's List of cities proper by population.The Seoul National Capital Area - which includes the major port city of Incheon and satellite towns in Gyeonggi-do, has 24.5 million inhabitants and is the world's second largest List of me...	South Korea South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....	27,879	485,098	17.40
19th arrondissement XIXe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=19th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=La Villette in the 19th arrondissement\|map=paris_19e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris	France	27,586	187,200	6.79
Daan District	Taipei Taipei Taipei has been the de facto capital of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, since the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and the capital of Taiwan since Japanese rule that began in 1895....	Taiwan	27,476	312,166	11.36
15th arrondissement XVe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=15th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=Front de Seine highrise district near the Eiffel Tower.\|map=paris_15e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris	France	27,335	232,400	8.50
Central District Central District There is more than one place called Central District, Center District or Centre District:* Central District * Center District, Israel...	Taichung Taichung Taichung is a city located in west-central Taiwan with a population of just over one million people, making it the third largest city on the island, after Taipei and Kaohsiung....	Taiwan	27,334	24,062	0.88
Zhabei District Zhabei District Zhabei District of Shanghai has a land area of 29.26 km? and a resident population of 810,211 as of 2003. It contains the site of the famous Battle of Sihang Warehouse as well as the Shanghai Railway Station....	Shanghai	China	27,293	798,600	29.26
Dongdaemun-gu Dongdaemun-gu Dongdaemun-gu is one of the Seoul#Administrative divisions of Seoul, South Korea. It is located to the north of the Han River . Its district office is in Yongdu-dong where is close to the underground station of branch of Line 2....	Seoul	South Korea	27,175	386,433	14.22
Mohammadpur Thana Mohammadpur Thana Mohammadpur is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh....	Dhaka	Bangladesh	27,142	316,203	11.65
9th arrondissement IXe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=9th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement.\|map=paris_9e_arr_jms.gif\|mapcaption=Paris and its closest suburbs\|...	Paris	France	26,847	58,500	2.18
Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret Levallois-Perret is a commune in France in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located . from the Kilometre Zero. It is one of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe....	Paris Paris Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....	France	26,058	62,800	2.41
Manhattan Manhattan Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...	New York City	United States	25,850	1,537,195
Caballito Caballito File:Rivadavia e Yrigoyen.jpgCaballito is a Barrios of Buenos Aires of the Argentina capital, Buenos Aires. It is the only barrio in the administrative division Comuna 6....	Buenos Aires	Argentina	25,830	183,396	7,1
13th arrondissement XIIIe arrondissement rrondissementnumber=13th\|commune=Paris\|image=\|caption=The Biblioth?que nationale de France in the 13th arrondissement.\|map=paris_13e_arr_jms.gif\|...	Paris	France	25,371	181,300	7.15
Tejgaon Thana Tejgaon Thana Tejgaon is a Thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. It is a large area in the centre of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh....	Dhaka	Bangladesh	25,144	220,012	8.75
Dongjak-gu Dongjak-gu Dongjak-gu is one of the 25 Administrative divisions of South Korea#Gu which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Its name was derived from the Dongjaegi Naruteo Ferry, located on the Han River which borders the district to the north....	Seoul	South Korea	24,762	404,872	16.35

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