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If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures...
30 thousand people used to live here.
Now it's a ghost town.
Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn't come up with a solid number.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
25K then?
I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.
Why are you assuming 37 apartments per floor? That answer is definitely no sufficient.
Why are you assuming 4 per apartment?
Lots of assumptions here. Even being off by a bit changes your estimate by thousands.
I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.
That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.