Name: 地球上最擁擠不堪的島嶼 (The Most Absurdly Overcrowded Island on Earth)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T16:01:25.000Z
Duration: 41 min 21 s

I've always been fascinated with the extremes of human population patterns.

我一直對人類的極端人口模式很感興趣。

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Both the parts of the world that are unusually empty, and the parts of the world that are unusually crowded.

無論是世界上異常空曠的地方，還是世界上異常擁擠的地方。

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And I recently came across what might just be the most interesting and most unusually crowded location in the entire world.

最近，我遇到了一個可能是全世界最有趣、最異常擁擠的地方。

This tiny little island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, that's known as Malé.

這個位於印度洋中央的小島被稱為馬累。

Which is probably the most densely populated island in the world today, and maybe the most densely populated island ever seen in history.

這可能是當今世界上人口最稠密的島嶼，也可能是歷史上人口最稠密的島嶼。

You see, Malé is the capital city of the Maldives.

An archipelagic state in the Indian Ocean that's located hundreds of kilometers away from the Asian mainland in India.

印度洋上的一個群島國家，距離亞洲大陸印度數百公里。

There are no less than 1,196 separate and distinct islands that are located within the Maldives.

馬爾地夫有不少於 1 196 個獨立和獨特的島嶼。

The largest of all of these nearly 1,200 islands is no larger than 4 square kilometers.

在這近 1200 個島嶼中，最大的島嶼也不過 4 平方公里。

And they're all stretched out across a vast distance that spans for about 871 kilometers north to south.

它們分佈在南北長約 871 公里的廣袤土地上。

Despite encompassing an area that makes up around 90,000 square kilometers in total.

儘管該地區總面積約為 9 萬平方公里。

More than 99% of the Maldives territory is open ocean.

馬爾地夫 99% 以上的領土是公海。

And only a tiny 298 square kilometers of that total area is actually land.

而在這一總面積中，只有極少的 298 平方公里是真正的陸地。

Making the Maldives one of the smallest countries in the world in terms of available land.

這使得馬爾地夫成為世界上可用土地面積最小的國家之一。

With a current population of about 528,000 people today.

目前，這裡的人口約為 528 000 人。

This makes the Maldives the fifth most densely populated country in the world today.

這使得馬爾地夫成為當今世界上人口密度排名第五的國家。

Largely only behind city-states like Monaco, Singapore, and Vatican City.

主要僅次於摩納哥、新加坡和梵蒂岡城等城市國家。

But in truth, the Maldives are way more densely populated than even this list implies.

但事實上，馬爾地夫的人口密度甚至比這份名單所暗示的還要高。

Because despite having nearly 1,200 islands and 298 square kilometers worth of available land to choose from to live on.

因為儘管有近 1200 個島嶼和 298 平方公里的可用陸地可供選擇居住。

Nearly half of the entire country's population lives on just two next door islands.

全國近一半的人口就生活在隔壁的兩個島上。

That only make up around 6 square kilometers.

The city of Male itself, administratively speaking, encompasses seven separate nearby small islands near the archipelago center.

從行政區劃上講，馬累市本身包括群島中心附近七個獨立的小島。

Though only four of them are significant from a geographic size or population standpoint.

儘管從地理面積或人口的角度來看，其中只有四個是重要的。

The total population of the whole city today is around 263,000 people.

如今，整個城市的總人口約為 26.3 萬人。

Nearly half the total population of the Maldives.

But only three of these islands within the city are really inhabited by all of these people.

但是，這些人真正居住在城市中的島嶼只有三個。

There's Villan Gilly, the smallest inhabited island in the city which is home to around 7,000 people.

維蘭吉利島是這座城市中最小的有人居住的島嶼，島上居住著約 7000 人。

Then there's the artificially made Hohumale Island.

然後是人工建造的霍胡馬萊島。

Which has been under construction since 1997 and is currently home to around 66,000 other people.

該項目自 1997 年開始建設，目前約有 66 000 人居住在此。

And is about four square kilometers in size.

Which would already make it one of the most densely populated islands in the world.

這已經使它成為世界上人口最稠密的島嶼之一。

With a similar scale of density as Hong Kong Island is currently in China.

與中國香港島目前的密度規模相似。

But Hohumale's already impressive density in the middle of the ocean.

不過，霍胡馬勒在海洋中央的密度已經令人印象深刻。

Is eclipsed by the even more catastrophic density that's going on right next door.

而就在隔壁發生的更大的災難性密度卻讓它黯然失色。

From which the greater city of Male takes its overall name from.

At a mere 1.95 square kilometers in total area.

The tiny island of Male is the core of Male the city and of the Maldives as a whole.

馬累小島是馬累市乃至整個馬爾地夫的核心。

Translated literally from the native Divehi language of the islands.

Implying that all of the other islands in the country are ruled directly from the center of power in Male.

這意味著該國所有其他島嶼都由馬累的權力中心直接統治。

As of 2024, based on the Maldives most recent census numbers from 2022.

根據馬爾地夫 2022 年的最新人口普查數據，截至 2024 年。

And the United Nations population estimates for 2024.

以及聯合國對 2024 年的人口估計。

It's believed that there are currently around a whopping 190,000 people.

Who live together crowded on this tiny little island.

他們擁擠地生活在這個小島上。

Roughly 36% of the Maldives entire population.

And which makes this little island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

這也使得這座小島成為印度洋中央的一座小島。

Not only among the most densely populated islands in the world.

不僅是世界上人口最稠密的島嶼之一。

But one of the most densely populated places in the world today period.

但它卻是當今世界人口最稠密的地方之一。

Male's population density today is about 97,436 people per square kilometer.

如今，馬累的人口密度約為每平方公里 97 436 人。

Which makes it more than three times as densely populated of an island as Manhattan is in New York City.

是以，它是紐約市曼哈頓人口密度的三倍多。

Wikipedia maintains an extensive list of islands by population density.

維基百科按人口密度列出了大量島嶼。

But from the research that I put into this list for this video.

但從我為本視頻製作這份清單所做的研究來看。

It appears that this Wikipedia list is still using outdated census data for Male's population from the year 2006.

維基百科的這份名單似乎仍在使用過時的 2006 年馬累人口普查數據。

Which at this point is nearly 20 years outdated.

在這一點上，它已經過時近 20 年了。

Plenty of other islands on this list have been updated with much more recent data from the 2020s.

這份名單上的許多其他島嶼都已根據 2020 年代的最新數據進行了更新。

So if we take the current UN population estimate for Male Island.

是以，如果我們根據目前聯合國對馬累島嶼人口的估計。

And update it on this list along with all of the other islands.

並將其與所有其他島嶼一起列入這份名單。

Male's true rank on the list should actually put it very firmly in third place worldwide by overall density.

按總體密度計算，男性在榜單上的真實排名應穩居全球第三位。

Behind only two other very small islands in Haiti that have very tiny populations.

僅次於海地另外兩個人口極少的小島。

Compared to Male's nearly 200,000 people.

So besides for these two little Haitian islands that have fewer than a thousand people between both of them.

這兩個海地小島的人口還不到一千人。

Male is truly the most densely populated island in the world today.

馬累是當今世界上人口最稠密的島嶼。

And it certainly looks like it when you view it through Google Maps.

No amount of space was wasted on the island.

The concrete coverage of it quite literally stretches out from the center of the island to the very edge of the sea.

它的混凝土覆蓋面從島中心一直延伸到海邊。

Soaring skyscrapers fill up the limited space of the island.

高聳入雲的摩天大樓填滿了島上有限的空間。

Within a country where no natural point stretches more than five meters above sea level.

在這個國家裡，沒有一個自然點的海拔高度超過 5 米。

Crowded streets below are full of people, cars, and motorbikes everywhere.

下面是擁擠的街道，到處都是人、汽車和摩托車。

The sound of constant traffic making you feel as if you were in a blender.

川流不息的車流聲讓你彷彿置身於攪拌機中。

The very limited housing and space means that multiple generations all living together in a single room is the norm here.

住房和空間非常有限，這意味著幾代人同住一個房間是這裡的常態。

The city looks like something that was pulled directly out of SimCity in a real life.

這座城市看起來就像是直接從現實生活中的模擬城市中提取出來的。

Or if you're a cultured individual, it looks like a real life version of a one tile island mega city that you'd build in one of the Sid Meier's Civilization games.

或者，如果你是一個有文化的人，它看起來就像現實版的《席德-梅爾的文明》遊戲中建造的一磚一瓦的島嶼巨城。

In fact, Male is so small that it's a fraction of the size of several open world RPG games.

事實上，《馬累》是如此之小，小到只相當於幾款開放世界 RPG 遊戲的一小部分。

It is a minuscule fraction the size of the map in Grand Theft Auto 5, for example.

以《俠盜獵車手 5》為例，該地圖的大小僅是《俠盜獵車手 5》的一小部分。

And it's more similar to the map size found in the now ancient Grand Theft Auto Vice City.

而且它的地圖大小更類似於現已過時的《俠盜獵車手：罪惡都市》（Grand Theft Auto Vice City）中的地圖大小。

The island of Male itself is less than two kilometers wide at its absolute widest point.

馬累島本身最寬處不足兩公里。

It's possible to walk across the entire island east to west in only about 20 minutes.

從東到西步行穿越整個島嶼只需約 20 分鐘。

While it's also possible to completely circumnavigate the entire island on foot in only about 90 minutes.

徒步環遊全島也只需約 90 分鐘。

It is a very, very small space for 190,000 people to all live contained in.

對於 19 萬人來說，這是一個非常非常狹小的空間。

On Wikipedia's other list of the most densely populated cities in the world, Male already appears in fifth place.

在維基百科的另一份世界人口最稠密城市排行榜上，馬累已經排在第五位。

Though this list factors in the total number of islands that are within the city, some of which are uninhabited.

不過，這份清單考慮到了城市內島嶼的總數，其中有些島嶼無人居住。

And which also uses the population figure of the city acquired from the 2022 Maldives Census.

其中還使用了從 2022 年馬爾地夫人口普查中獲得的城市人口數字。

Rather than the UN's 2024 estimate that I'm using.

而不是我使用的聯合國 2024 年的估計值。

So if instead you plugged in the UN's 2024 population estimate for Male, it would suddenly jump up into being the third most densely populated city in the world.

是以，如果把聯合國 2024 年對馬累人口的估計值填進去，它就會一下子躍升為世界上人口密度第三高的城市。

And if you considered only the little island of Male itself with its 190,000 people, it would be by far the number one most densely populated city in the world.

如果只考慮馬累這個擁有 19 萬人口的小島，它將是迄今為止世界上人口最稠密的城市之首。

With more than double the density that's seen in Manila, Giza, and Croix-de-Bouquet.

其密度是馬尼拉、吉薩和克魯瓦德布凱的兩倍多。

And what makes Male's insane level of density all the more bizarre is that it's also basically in the middle of nowhere.

讓馬累的密集程度更加離奇的是，這裡基本上也是荒無人煙。

A mini Manhattan more than three times denser than the real Manhattan.

迷你曼哈頓的密度是真正曼哈頓的三倍多。

Surrounded by hundreds of kilometers of absolute nothingness in every direction.

周圍四面八方都是數百公里的絕對虛無。

In sharp contrast to the other super dense cities on Wikipedia's list like Giza and Croix-de-Bouquet.

這與維基百科列表中的其他超級密集城市（如吉薩和克魯瓦德布凱）形成了鮮明對比。

Which are really just parts of the greater Cairo and Port-au-Prince metropolitan areas that are very close by to other huge population centers.

這其實只是大開羅和太子港都市區的一部分，距離其他巨大的人口中心非常近。

The island of Male is insanely interesting to me.

Not just because it's arguably the most densely populated island and the most densely populated city in the world today.

這不僅僅是因為它可以說是當今世界上人口最稠密的島嶼和最稠密的城市。

But also because it's basically all a speck of incredible record shattering density that's all in the middle of absolutely nowhere.

但也因為它基本上都是一粒粒令人難以置信的破紀錄的密度，而且都在絕對不知名的地方。

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