The Dirtiest And Biggest Slums In the World

This document gives a brief of the dirtiest and biggest slums in the World, as such:

• Dharavi Slum In Mumbai, India.
• Orangi Town, Pakistan.
• Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Africa.
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Kambwe, Zambia, Africa.
• Dzerzhinsk, Russia.
• Mogadishu, Somalia.
• Linfen, China, Asia.
• Bassac Apartments, Cambodia.
• Cubatao, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Mumbai slum Dharavi in India is the biggest in the world as well as in Asia.

It is located between Mumbai`s two main suburban railway lines the Western and Central Railways.

Poverty, crime, dirtiness, increasing population, increasing black spot in India and especially in Mumbai, increase in illegal business, increase in prostitution, increase in women crimes, increase in drug trafficking, increase in child labor and abuse, increase in diseases, increase in AIDS, increase in slums across Mumbai.

Similarly, Orangi Town in Karachi, Pakistan is also considered one of the biggest slums in the world, with an area of approximately 57 sq. kilometers in the northwestern part of Karachi.

Also read: Urbanization, Slums Growth and Challenge of Low Income Habitat