{"id":12079,"date":"2024-05-25T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12079"},"modified":"2024-05-25T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T19:53:05","slug":"inside-one-of-the-most-crowded-islands-on-earth-where-more-than-500-people-live-in-space-smaller-than-soccer-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12079","title":{"rendered":"Inside one of the most crowded islands on Earth where more than 500 people live in space smaller than soccer pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tiny island sits on the the border between Uganda and Kenya<\/h2>\n

When you think of overcrowded places, the likes of Paris, Rome and New York might come to mind – but this tiny island definitely takes the cake.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Located on Africa’s Lake Victoria is a place called Migingo Island and when we say tiny, we mean tiny.<\/p>\n

The body of land is less than 0.5 acres big. To put that into perspective, that’s around the size of half of your average\u00a0soccer<\/a>\u00a0field.<\/p>\n

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Migingo Island is home to over 500 people. (CARL DE SOUZA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Migingo Island awkwardly sits on the the border between Uganda and Kenya, meaning no one’s quite sure who actually owns it.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, it’s said that a bilateral commission is going to examine the land to determine if it should be handed to Uganda or Kenya.<\/p>\n

The move comes after both countries previously decided to create a joint commission to determine where the border is – but nothing came of it.<\/p>\n

The island’s been co-managed by Uganda and Kenya ever since.<\/p>\n

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The tiny island is less than 0.5 acres in size. (Recep Canik\/Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The ongoing dispute over ownership of Migingo has been hailed as Africa’s ‘smallest war’.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, because the island is so small, everything on it is\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0close together.<\/p>\n

Residents on the island live side-by-side in metal shacks. As well as homes, there’s reportedly has four bars, a makeshift hair salon and several brothels,\u00a0according to<\/a>\u00a0the Mirror.<\/p>\n

While there might be four bars, there’s allegedly only one sanitation facility available.<\/p>\n

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A woman cleans her bar on Migingo Island. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The main type of work available on the island is fishing, with species such as Nile Perch being plentiful the deep waters surrounding Migingo.<\/p>\n

And it’s the fishing that draws some people to the minuscule island.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Guardian in 2018, Migingo resident Isaac Buhinza\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that he went to the island because ‘my friends who were here before used to come back home with lots of goodies’ from their fishing trips.<\/p>\n

Living on the island rather than travelling there from nearby countries saves fishermen fuel and gives them access to wholesalers.<\/p>\n

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Fishing opportunities draws people to the island. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

It’s thought that fisherman can make a decent living on catching Nile perch, with the price of the fish going up 50 percent in recent years (as of 2019).<\/p>\n

According to Kenyan fisherman Kennedy Ochieng, large good quality fish could bring in excess of $300 per kg in international markets, Al Jazeera\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Nile perch is still in abundance around the island, other fish stocks have sharply diminished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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