Ryan Hite<p>🚨 The most crowded island in the world isn’t Manhattan.<br>It’s Malé—a 1.95 km² island in the Maldives with 190,000 people.<br>3x denser than NYC, more isolated than most deserts, and it’s sinking.<br>A city like no other:<br>🔗 <a href="https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/05/24/the-most-crowded-island-in-history-the-surreal-urban-density-of-male-maldives/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ryanjhite.com/2025/05/24/the-m</span><span class="invisible">ost-crowded-island-in-history-the-surreal-urban-density-of-male-maldives/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mal%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malé</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Maldives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maldives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>