Earth’s Fastest Growing Cities: Do You Live In One?

Do you think that your city is fully grown or fully developed?  Insider Monkey has an article about "Earth’s Fastest Growing Cities: Do You Live In One?" The urbanization of the world is an inevitable and more than evident process. We would like to present you with a list of the 10 fastest growing cities on Earth, none of which crossover with the world's most dangerous cities, interestingly enough. While the megacity is pretty much a Western society concept, over the past decade, Eastern communities have flourished at a much faster pace and no Western city is featured on our top ten.

The countdown is dominated by China with four out of the ten fastest growing cities in the world. China’s fastest growing city and the second in our top ten, Shenzhen, had only about 30,000 inhabitants in 1980. Nowadays, it has over 12 million. However, the most impressive growth was experienced by Karachi in Pakistan, whose population soared by over 80% throughout the first decade of the new millennium. Please visit Insider Monkey for more details about the earth's fastest growing cities.