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List of slums

This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.

Africa

Egypt

Ghana

Kenya

Liberia

Mauritania

Namibia

Nigeria

South Africa

Asia

Bangladesh

  • Begun Bari
  • Duaripara (Dhaka North)
  • Kawnia
  • Korail slum (Dhaka North)
  • Mohammadpur
  • Monsur Beel / Nama Para

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

  • Kampung Dao and Kampung Muka, near Jakarta Kota railway station
  • Kampung Kalibaru, a 1.6 km<sup>2</sup> slum near New Priok Container consisting of substandard housing with bad sanitation and waste management, junk warehouse, metal scrapping field, and fishing boat manufacturer which directly faces Jakarta Bay
  • Kampung Tanah Merah Plumpang, where the 2023 Plumpang oil depot fire occurred, killing 33 people
  • Kampung Muara Baru, along East towards North side of Pluit Reservoir
  • Kampung Kalimati, West side of Karet Bivak Cemetery
  • Jalan Bhakti and Jalan Remaja towards Jl. Bukit Duri Utara, officially owned by Kereta Api Indonesia but squatted since the early 1970s
  • Tanah Rendah, Kebon Pala, Bukit Duri and surrounding area in Matraman and Manggarai along Ciliwung River
  • Kampung Bahari, Kampung Kebon Pisang towards Tanjung Priuk railway station
  • Gang Royal, a suspected illegal prostitution area near Harbour Toll Road
  • Rawa Malang, a suspected illegal prostitution area near Budi Dharma Cemetery along Cakung River Drainage
  • Slums near railway stations and rail lines (particularly in Jakarta, Semarang and Surabaya)

Iran

As of 2022-23 twenty to twenty five million Iranians lived in slums.

Japan

Pakistan

  • Parts of Machar Colony

Previous Slums in Pakistan

  • Orangi, previously but status changed to municipality from 2018 onward.

Philippines

  • Tondo, the biggest slum in the Philippines with over 600,000 people according to the 2020 census.
  • BASECO compound, near the port of Manila.

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Turkey

  • Sultanbeyli, Istanbul
  • Çinçin, one of the most popular gecekondu (slum) located in Ankara
  • Hacıhüsrev, largest slum of Ä°stanbul
  • Hürriyet mahallesi, Adana
  • Kadifekale, Ä°zmir
  • Horozköy, Manisa

Yemen

Oceania

Australia

  • Little Lon district In the nineteenth century the area consisted of timber and brick cottages, shops and small factories and was home to an ethnically diverse and generally poor population. Today there are few reminders of the area's former notoriety.

Europe

Bulgaria

Greece

Malta

  • The Manderaggio, an area in Valletta that was a slum area from the 16th to the 20th centuries. It was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by housing estates.

Portugal

Serbia

  • Cardboard city () in Belgrade, depopulated and demolished starting on 31 August 2009, following four years of unsuccessful attempts.

Spain

North America

Bahamas

  • Over the Hill, an area south of Nassau, is the largest and most populous slum of the Bahamas with about 2.5 km<sup>2</sup>

Guatemala

  • La Limonada in Guatemala City is one of the largest slums in Latin America outside of Brazil, with over 60,000 people in it
  • in Villa Nueva
  • El Mezquital in Villa Nueva, with 23,000 inhabitants. It started as an emergency housing project after the 1976 Guatemala earthquake

Haiti

Jamaica

Mexico

Puerto Rico

South America

Argentina

In Buenos Aires:

Brazil

Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.

Colombia

Paraguay

Peru

Pueblos jóvenes is the nickname given to the vast shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru. Many of these towns have developed into significant districts in Lima such as Villa El Salvador and Comas.

Uruguay

Venezuela

See also

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