However, the area surrounding the Chinatown was a larger "slum" with known criminal activity.

I first visited one of Africa's largest slums in 2007 and was to return continuously over the course of the next three years.

Kibera is the largest slum in Africa, home to an estimated 1 million people, most of whom are children.

Many homes were locked, their owners having fled the fear and hatred in one of the world's largest slums.

It is one of the largest slums in Nairobi.

Dharavi is one of the largest slums in the world.

The township is currently the largest slum in South Asia.

Because of immigration there has been a rise of large slums.

Heavily armed, 3,000-strong security force backed by helicopters takes control of Rio's largest slum.

He represent Dharavi which is Asia's largest slum from 1985.