Half the schools in this tightly packed city have no libraries.

The cemetery first appealed to Mamluk sultans and emirs because it afforded the sort of building space that was unavailable inside the densely packed city.

The plague ravaged the densely packed city, and in the long run, was a significant cause of its final defeat.

It seemed incredible that I was only a few miles from the most densely packed city on earth.

The earthquake killed 541 people, injured 6,512 and left thousands homeless in this tightly packed city of 14 million.

In this densely packed city, where property is the coin of the realm, Raymond Kwok is as close as one gets to royalty.

America is a big multicultural society full of densely packed cities with large foreign-born populations - and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

With its current population of 6.8 million, Hong Kong is already one of the most densely packed cities in the world.

Yet, in this tightly packed city, these are the sounds that can pry a New Yorker's eyes open.

We immediately rushed to the back of our office where we could look down the hill to the densely packed city.