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List of slums

Summary

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.[1] 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[2] and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.[3]

A Villa Miseria in Argentina
A favela in Brazil

Africa edit

Egypt edit

Ghana edit

 
Taxi drivers waiting for fares near the beachfront slum in Accra's Jamestown

Kenya edit

 
A view of Kibera

Liberia edit

Mauritania edit

Namibia edit

Nigeria edit

South Africa edit

Spain edit

Asia edit

Bangladesh edit

  • Begun Bari[14]
  • Bhola (Dhaka North)
  • City Palli (Dhaka South)
  • Driver Colony (Dhaka South)
  • Duaripara (Dhaka North)
  • Kawnia
  • Korail slum (Dhaka North)
  • Lalbagh (Slum)|Lalbagh
  • Mach Colony
  • Mannan (Dhaka South)
  • Mohammadpur (Slum)|Mohammadpur
  • Molla (Dhaka North)
  • Monsur Beel / Nama Para
  • Mymensingh (Slum)|Mymensingh
  • Nubur (Dhaka South)
  • Power House (Dhaka South)
  • Pura (Dhaka South)
  • Rail Line Slums (most of the largest rail lines in Bangladesh have slums)

Hong Kong edit

India edit

 
Slum improvement in Delhi, 1983

Indonesia edit

  • Kampung Dao and Kampung Muka, near Jakarta Kota railway station
  • Kampung Kalibaru, a 1.6 km2 slum near New Priok Container consisting of substandard housing with bad sanitation and bad waste management, junk warehouse, metal scrapping field, and fishing boat manufacturer which directly faces Jakarta Bay
  • Kampung Tanah Merah Plumpang, where 2023 Plumpang oil depot fire tragedy happened which took about 33 lives of 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 in the early 70's until now
  • 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 (worst in Jakarta, Semarang and Surabaya)
  • Every unfenced or unguarded lands in metropolitan area or urban area exists some squatters
  • Riverbanks, landfills, public parks, old Chinese Cemetery, government lands, or lakeside often seen squatters working as scavengers and scrap collectors

Iran edit

As of 2022-23 twenty to twenty five million Iranians lived in slums.[16][17]

Japan edit

Pakistan edit

 
A slum in Karachi
  • Parts of Machar Colony[25]

Previous Slums in Pakistan edit

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

South Korea edit

Sri Lanka edit

  • Usavi Watta (Usaui Walta)
  • Wanathamulla

Thailand edit

Turkey edit

 
A Gecekondu in Istanbul
  • Sultanbeyli, Istanbul
  • Çinçin, one of the most popular Turkish gecekondu (slum) located in Ankara
  • Hacıhüsrev, largest slum of İstanbul
  • Hürriyet mahallesi, Adana
  • Kadifekale, Izmir
  • Horozköy, Manisa

Yemen edit

Oceania edit

Australia edit

  • 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 edit

Bulgaria edit

Greece edit

Italy edit

Malta edit

 
Model of Valletta's Manderaggio before demolition
  • 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 edit

Serbia edit

 
A living area at the former Cardboard city

Spain edit

  • Las Barranquillas, Madrid
  • Valdemíngomez, Madrid

North America edit

 
Cité Soleil, 2002
 
Housing development at Iztapalapa
 
A slum in the hillside at Ecatepec, Mexico

Bahamas edit

  • Over the Hill, an area south of Nassau, is the largest and most populous[word missing] of the Bahamas with about 2.5 km2

Haiti edit

Jamaica edit

Mexico edit

Puerto Rico edit

South America edit

Argentina edit

 
Villa 31 in Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires:

  • Villa 21-24
  • Villa 26
  • Villa 31
  • Villa 1-11-14
  • Villa Zabaleta
  • Villa Rodrigo Bueno

Brazil edit

Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.

 
Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro. Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil, many of the more famous ones exist in Rio — a widely photographed city

Colombia edit

 
Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)

Paraguay edit

  • Bañados del Río Paraguay

Peru edit

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 District, Lima.

Uruguay edit

  • Presidente Kennedy, Punta del Este

Venezuela edit

 
Petare slum in Caracas

See also edit

 
A campamento in Chile

References edit

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External links edit

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