most crowded places on earth

Carrying over 106 million cars across the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey every year, the George Washington Bridge is the world s busiest. It s so busy in fact that it has two levels and a total of 14 lanes.

Lined with bars, hotels, and shops Oxford Street in London attracts over 200 million people every year. Recently authorities were even forced to reconstruct Oxford Circus and double the amount of pavement, an idea they got from the Shibuya Crossing in Japan.

Not surprisingly, to find the most crowded hotel in the world we return once again to Tokyo. If you have seen our post on the 25 coolest hotels ever then you are familiar with their space conserving capsule inns.

Technically speaking Monaco is the country with the world s highest population density (about 43,000 people per square mile). Ironically enough though, Monaco itself has an area of less than 1 square mile (3/4 square mile) and a population of only 32,000. For this reason, oftentimes people exclude the microstates of Monaco, Singapore, Malta, and Bahrain in discussions of population density and skip directly to Bangladesh which has 2,637 people per square mile.

Although Japan does have its fair share of crowded areas, its train system is absolutely no match for that of India. No match whatsoever.

With a population of only 1,247, the Colombian island of Santa Cruz de Islote has a population density of 124,700 people per square mile. It is so crowded in fact that everything from schooling and graveyards to playing football take place off of the island. Moreover, there is no electricity and fresh water has to be imported from the mainland.

While going to prison in Russia is probably not anyone s idea of a fun time, at least you would have lots of friends there, especially at the Kresty Prison in St. Petersburg. The only downside (except for being starved and beaten) is that in a prison built to hold only 3,000 people there are approximately 10,000 prisoners, which adds up to about 4 square meters per person.

Sometimes it can be hard to tell where the sand stops and the water starts at Qingdao Huiquan Beach in China, often considered the largest (and most crowded) in Asia.

Just southwest of Chengdu in China you will find what many consider to the be the world s most crowded parking lot. While the lot itself is not that big with only 50 spaces inside of its 5,400 square feet, on an average day it holds over 70 cars. In spite of the congestion locals claim that in the past year there has been only one minor scrape.

With 31,000 locations around the world McDonalds serves 58 million customersdaily. Of course, you may be tempted to think that it s most popular location is somewhere in the United States or at the very least Japan, but you would be wrong. The McDonalds found in Pushkin Square in Moscow is actually the busiest in the world serving what is believed to be around 40,000 customers every day. Fun fact