[user_7832]

It’s really helpful to have such a visualisation tool. I’ve felt Mumbai as being quite dense (partially because of the sea around it), and throwing a few “most dense cities” like Dhaka/Manila/Tokyo/Jakarta so far still results in Mumbai having the highest cumulative density values (made much more explicit when excluding large water bodies).

Question/challenge: can anyone find any other city with a greater density? Dhaka is close but has a lower peak and tapers off faster.

[forthwall]

The Hong Kong core, makes sense because the HK core is super-dense

[seanmcdirmid]

The reason HK is not more dense in general is because much of the TAR is unlivable water and mountains that have to be worked around (lots of bridges and tunnels). Once you just count people on livable land, its density shoots up. It isn’t like other cities where density ever tapers off, it’s just clumps of apartment skyscrapers here and there.

[user_7832]

Nice find! Yes, makes a lot of sense that HK is also going to be dense. And it’s islandic geography could explain why it drops off.