The world‘s highest density tent city

Mecca is in the western part of Saudi Arabia. It is about 550 square kilometers, with a population of 2 million and a permanent population of 15 million.Mecca is the most outstanding characteristic is awning room with great mosque, Muslim‘s most sacred places on the planet, near the mosque of land may be the most expensive international city, has spent billions of dollars to develop the real estate here, with awning room is given priority to, to meet the needs of more and more visitors.

Mina tent city in the near the holy city, dry river valley surrounded by rock mountain, the topography is more closed, mina tent city has 8 million square meters, it is a very typical example city, not only because of its size, but also in terms of its management difficulty.

Tent city night view

It can be said to be the world‘s largest tent city, pilgrimage to accept 3 million people every year, this tent city geographic area is very small, very limited, because it is subject to islamic law, and there is no more place to expand, compared to the Shanghai world expo, only accounts for 75% of its area, as each year more and more pilgrims mina tent city Can be said to be the biggest population densities on earth (region), per hectare of 5000 people, of course, this has brought the challenge of many cities, such as security, water, sanitation, health care, safety, civil defence and pilgrims on the transport hub also has a problem, therefore the kingdom think innovative and sustainable methods must be taken to cope with challenges, to prevent the ceremony when a tragedy occurs.

Tent city mina, tent city

The world‘s highest density tent city

Due to religious and other reasons, the structure of the tent is simple and easy to install, so it has always been a house for pilgrims.The structure was simple, and in the last dozen years we have made changes to the tent, and now the tent is getting more and more complicated.More and more people are to mina valley, due to the lack of some preventive measures and the tent inside and outside the influence of wind, caused many deadly fires events occur, such as the events of 1997, it not only destroyed the tents, also caused the deaths of many pilgrims, that‘s why we need to urgently for the pilgrims.