List of slums
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
Egypt
- Ezbet el-Haggana – a slum in Cairo
Ghana
Taxi drivers waiting for fares near the beachfront slum in Accra's Jamestown
- Amui Djor [4]
- Ashiaman [5]
- Fadama[6]
- Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra
- Kojokrom
- New Takoradi
- Suame Magazine
- Nima
- Agbogbloshie
Kenya
A view of Kibera
- Baba Ndogo
- Dandora
- Fuata Nyayo[7]
- Gatwekera
- Huruma
- Kambi Muru
- Kangemi
- Kawangware
- Kiambiu
- Kianda
- Kibera (Kibera has been described as the largest slum in Kenya)
- Kiamaiko
- Kichinjio
- Kisumu Ndogo
- Korogocho
- Laini Saba
- Lindi
- Majengo, Nairobi
- juakali-marurui, Nairobi
- Makongeni
- Mashimoni
- Matopeni
- Mathare
- Mathare Valley
- Mugumoini
- Mukuru kwa Njenga
- Mukuru slums
- Nyalenda
- Pumwani
- Raila
- Sarang'ombe
- Shilanga
- Siranga
- Soweto East
- Soweto West
- Ziwa la Ng'ombe[8]
- Viwandani (Kenya)[9]
Liberia
- Brewerville
- Clara Town, Bushrod Island
- Logan Town
- Sinkor
- Slipway
- Sonewein
- South Beach Bay
- West Point
Namibia
- Africa Tongashili
- Freedomland
- Goreangab
- Kahumba ka Ndola
- Okahandja Park
- Okandundu
- Okantunda
- Okuryangava
- One Nation N° 1
- One Nation N° 2
- Ongulumbashe N° 1
- Onyika
- Otjomuise
- Samuel Maherero
Nigeria
Asia
Bangladesh
- Begun Bari [14]
- Karail
India
Slum improvement in Delhi, 1983
- Banganga
- Baiganwadi, Mumbai
- Chandmari
- Dharavi, Mumbai
- Kathputhli slum
- Tikia Para
Indonesia
About half of each of all cities in Indonesia compromises slums.
Previous Slums in Pakistan
- Orangi, previously but status changed to municipality from 2018 onward.
South Korea
Sri Lanka
- Maligawatte
- Usavi Watta (Usaui Walta)
- Wanathamulla
Australia
Melbourne
- 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
A living area at the former Cardboard city
The following are former slum areas that have subsequently been either gradually developed or abruptly cleared and demolished.
Bulgaria
кв. Столипиново, Шекер махала, Аджисан махала, Арман махала - гр. Пловдив/ kv. Stolipinovo, Sheker mahala, Adjisan mahala, Arman mahala - Plovdiv city
Malta
Model of Valletta's Manderaggio before demolition
- The Manderaggio, an area in Valletta that was a slum area from the 16th to 20th centuries. It was demolished in the 1950s and replaced by housing estates.
Serbia
- Cardboard city – "Karton city" (part of Belgrade) was depopulated and demolished starting on 31 August 2009; following four years of unsuccessful attempts.
Middle East
Yemen
North America
Cité Soleil, 2002
Housing development at Iztapalapa
Haiti
Jamaica
- Trenchtown
- Vikia
Mexico
- Neza-Chalco-Ixta in Mexico City, is a Ciudad Perdida, rated as the world's largest mega-slum in 2006. The area extends towards the municipalities of Chimalhuacan, Los Reyes to the west of Ixtapaluca and South of Neza and Ecatepec de Morelos north of Neza in the metropolitan area periphery and with Santa Marta Acatitla in the Distrito Federal's borough of Iztapalapa. Contrary to many slums in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Venezuela or Sub-Saharan Africa, these slums are urbanized and most inhabitants have access to basic amenities, however, the quality of basic amenities are debatable as the vast majority of people live under the poverty line, high crime rate, and in steep hills and grey block housing.
Puerto Rico
South America
Argentina
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
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
Ciudad Bolivar
- Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)
Peru
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.
- Comas
- Villa El Salvador
- San Juan de Lurigancho
- Cono Sur
See also
A campamento in Chile
- Campamento (Chile) – a term in Chile to shanty towns.
- Chengzhongcun – less prosperous areas in urban areas in China.
- Cortiço – a Portuguese term commonly used in Brazil and Portugal to describe an area of urban housing where many people live in conditions of poor hygiene and poverty.
- Rugby boy – a common group or gang of street children seen in the Philippines, they are one of the most well known and recognized poverty inflicted people found in the slums of the Philippines.
- Slum upgrading – consists of physical, social, economic, organizational and environmental improvements to slums undertaken cooperatively and locally among citizens, community groups, businesses and local authorities.[16]
- Villa miseria – a type of shanty town or slum found in Argentina
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References
- United Nations, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report. p. 26
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