Not so Sick

Been taking drugs to kill my little parasite, and I feel pretty good.

I was thinking about this...

Sadr City is a slum of AT LEAST 2.5 Million (up to about 3 Million)
It is a rectangle 3 miles by 4 miles.

That gives it a population density of....200,000 per square mile???

My math HAS to be wrong somewhere.
Monaco has a density of 43,000 per sq mile...
acording to a google search, Mumbai has a density of 46,000 and ranks #1 for cities of the world in terms of density.

BUT....
That is over the entire city, and Sadr City is not an entire city, it is part of Bagdad. You could take any small segment of a large city and have massive density numbers that don't reflect the entire city. Still, I find 200,000 to be obscene, yet I have NEVER, EVER, EVER heard anyone dispute 2.5 million.

This article DOES dispute it (ignore last sentence) and provides good visualization for Sadr City..

The neighborhood was built as a public housing project for the poor in the late 1950s and early '60s. The rectangle of roughly 125,000 homes northeast of central Baghdad covered an area about half the size of Manhattan, with streets in a grid, and simple brick homes of about 1,500 square feet, or about 140 square meters. These days, after decades of neglect under Saddam Hussein, many of the houses are crumbling and divided into multiple apartments.

Sadr City officials — including Rahim al-Daraji, Sadr City's elected mayor — claim that more than two million people live in the neighborhood, a third of Baghdad. If true, that would give Sadr City a higher population density than Calcutta and Hong Kong, something that demographers said was unlikely given the architecture.

Here's another article that suggests it is that high.

Although no official census was ever conducted, it is estimated that between a third and a half of Baghdad's entire population is packed into that small section of the city. In one Sadr City clinic alone, up to 1,300 children are born every week, and perhaps as many as 10,000 people live in each city block of Sadr City's northern side. A single battalion task force, supported by elements of the BCT, is trying to turn life around for approximately 2.5 million people crammed into a place of brutish, punishing squalor by design.

Hmm... Dunno.
But I am not moving here anyways.

Adam