Senglea is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, the population report on the 2011 census shows. The tiny, fortified city had a population of 2,740 living in an area of just 0.2 square kilometres.

This gave it a population density of 17,146 people per square kilometre, making it easily the most congested locality in the country.

Had Senglea been considered by Forbes magazine in its 2007 rankings of the world’s most congested cities, its high population density would have been enough to edge out the Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen in fifth place.

Only Mumbai, Kolkata, Karachi and Lagos would have been ranked as more congested than Senglea in the Forbes list.

The figures were revealed in the National Statistics Office’s first volume report on the 2011 census, entitled Population.

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