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by throw0101a 2432 days ago
> Paris is one of the densest cities in the world and it doesn’t really get taller than eight stories high.

For the record, it is 24th in the world:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...

And there are other French cities above it: Levallois-Perret is 8th at 26,432/km^2.

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Levallois-Perret is a commune bordering on central Paris, and a comparable size to a single arrondissement (subdivision within Paris proper). For example, the 11th arrondissement [1] is 50% larger and 100% denser than Levallois-Perret. But it doesn't count because it isn't it's own separate administrative area.

All this to say: the closer you look, the harder it is to rank places by population density. The comment point was that high population density can be reaching without high rises.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_arrondissement_of_Paris