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How the Kowloon Walled City Worked
41 minutes Posted Mar 12, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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From the 1970s to the early 1990s a patch of land in Hong Kong the size of just a few football fields was the most densely-populated area in the world – and by a longshot. Even more remarkable, it was an outlaw land that somehow formed a tight community.

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