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CROWDS_7 Billion of Us in 2011-Population Dynamics_National Geographic magazine 21 images Created 4 Apr 2021

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  • Crowds at the Churchgate Railway Station in Mumbai.
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  • These are workers' villas in wealthy Huaxi village in 2008. Some of the industries of Huaxi Village (Farmers Village) are in the background. This co-op has been a model farm for 45 years. They were capitalists before it was legal in China. They started factories, but worked in them with no windows in secret. When government officials came to inspect, they sent all the workers out to the fields and disguised the factories. Huaxi became the first and most successful capitalist exploitation of the collective. This model farm became so successful they started selling shares in the 60's. They sold the shares "underground" The residents now buy shares... or work for shares to purchase these homes.  When shares were first offered, they went for 2000RMB, now they go for 30,000 RMB. In 2008, 30,000 officials visited this place to see how it runs effectively. There are not many model farms left in China, and none with this wealth. The model farm runs about 80 factories and In 2008, Huaxi was held up by the government as the most successful transition from farmer to the socialist/capitalist world. But more recently, in the face of economic pressures, Huaxi Village has gone bankrupt.
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  • The Kara tribe come racing over the hill from their village when they hear engine noise to greet one of the few boats on the Omo.
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  • Kolkata's streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and taxis.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Central Island is part of Sibiloi National Park on Lake Turkana. We did a rough count and think there were just under 100,000 in this crater in the middle of Lake Turkana, Kenya called Flamingo Lake.
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  • Bathing in a sidewalk trough on the streets of Kolkata.
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  • The first Camel Beauty contest was in March of 2007 and this area was just a dusty piece of desert on the edge of the empty quarter.  About an hour outside of Abu Dhabi the Al Dhafra Festival put on by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage is under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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  • Immigrant Indians at a Sikh festival in Barcelona.
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  • A Ratha Yatra religious festival in temple town of Puri.
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  • Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly.
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  • Easter Procession in the town of Orosei on the island of Sardinia.
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  • Streets crowded with rickshaws in the pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
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  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
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  • People bathing in the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
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  • Indian Muslims at the call to prayer on the roof of a Kolkata mosque.
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  • Crawfish Farms in Louisiana are a major draw for migratory birds.
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  • Rickshaws, bicycles and motorcycles crowd the streets in Varanasi.
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  • Overview of Kampala Uganda.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park. Seventy couples participated in a mass marriage event that started at a shopping mall and ended up in Century Park for the ceremony.
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  • The Dharavi slum area of Mumbai.
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