List of slums

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A Villa Miseria in Argentina
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A favela in Brazil

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]

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Africa

Egypt

Ghana

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Taxi drivers waiting for fares near the beachfront slum in Accra's Jamestown

Kenya

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A view of Kibera

Liberia

Mauritania

Namibia

Nigeria

South Africa

Spain

Asia

Bangladesh

Hong Kong

India

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Slum improvement in Delhi, 1983

Indonesia

Iran

As of 2022-23 twenty to twenty five million Iranians lived in slums. [16] [17]

Japan

Pakistan

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A slum in Karachi

Previous Slums in Pakistan

  • Orangi, previously but status changed to municipality from 2018 onward.

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Turkey

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A Gecekondu in Istanbul

Yemen

Oceania

Australia

Europe

Bulgaria

Greece

Italy

Malta

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Model of Valletta's Manderaggio before demolition

Portugal

Serbia

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A living area at the former Cardboard city

Spain

North America

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Cité Soleil, 2002
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Housing development at Iztapalapa
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A slum in the hillside at Ecatepec, Mexico

Bahamas

Haiti

Jamaica

Mexico

Puerto Rico

South America

Argentina

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Villa 31 in Buenos Aires

In Buenos Aires:

Brazil

Shanty towns in Brazil are referred to as favelas.

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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

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Ciudad Bolívar (Bogotá)

Paraguay

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.

Uruguay

Venezuela

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Petare slum in Caracas

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A campamento in Chile

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