The Absolute Worst Place To Be During a Zombie Apocalypse

Summary

This video explores why Dhaka, Bangladesh, would be the absolute worst city to be in during a zombie outbreak. With over 23 million people packed into an overcrowded, flood-prone metropolis, narrow alleyways, and slums that act as pre-built infection hubs, escape is nearly impossible. The city's infrastructure is fragile, with limited food, water, and medical resources, and residents are largely unarmed. Combined with extreme heat, disease risks, and maze-like streets, Dhaka offers no safe zones or survival advantages. The video vividly illustrates a nightmarish scenario where zombies, disease, and chaos leave little hope for survival, creating the ultimate worst-case scenario.

Takeaways

• 🧟‍♂️ Dhaka, Bangladesh is described as the worst place on Earth to be during a zombie outbreak due to extreme population density and limited escape routes.
• 🏙️ Some areas of Dhaka exceed 100,000 people per square mile, making social distancing and survival nearly impossible in an outbreak scenario.
• 🏚️ The city's slums, particularly Carell, act as pre-built 'zombie factories' with overcrowded housing, shared walls, and narrow alleyways that accelerate infection spread.
• 🌊 Dhaka's flood-prone geography, combined with poor infrastructure, worsens survival conditions by spreading sewage, contamination, and disease during an outbreak.
• 🌡️ The city experiences high heat and humidity, promoting rapid decay of zombies and creating unsanitary, disease-prone environments.
• 🛑 Escape routes are severely limited due to bottlenecked bridges, crowded streets, and gridlocked transport hubs like river terminals.
• 💉 Limited local weapon access—only about 0.4 guns per 100 people—leaves residents largely defenseless against large hordes of zombies.
• 🥫 Food and water scarcity is a critical threat, as Dhaka relies heavily on imports and has almost no farmland, leaving survivors vulnerable after supply chains collapse.
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• 🏥 Hospitals and medical centers, instead of providing safety, become epicenters for infection and contribute to crowding and zombie spread in key areas.
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• 😱 Overall, every factor—population density, climate, infrastructure, and limited resources—combines to make Dhaka a nearly hopeless place to survive a zombie outbreak.

Q & A

What city does the video identify as the worst place to be during a zombie outbreak?

The video identifies Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, as the worst place to be during a zombie outbreak due to its extreme population density, poor infrastructure, and lack of disaster preparedness.

Why isn't the deadliest city necessarily the one with the largest population?

The deadliest city isn't always the largest because cities with better infrastructure, evacuation routes, and disaster planning, like Delhi or Tokyo, may offer some chance of survival despite high population counts.

How dense are some areas of Dhaka according to the video?

Some areas of Dhaka have densities exceeding 100,000 people per square mile, which is compared to cramming 150 people onto every city block and packing 57 times the population of Iceland into one city.

What makes Dhaka's slums particularly dangerous in a zombie outbreak?

Dhaka's slums, like Carell, are extremely overcrowded with buildings sharing walls and rooftops connecting. Families live in single rooms, making isolation impossible, and narrow alleys create choke points that facilitate rapid spread of infection.

How would the city’s infrastructure exacerbate a zombie outbreak?

Dhaka relies heavily on imported food, has almost no farmland, limited water supply that fails during power outages, and frequent flooding. These factors would create food and water scarcity, disease outbreaks, and compounded chaos during an outbreak.

Why are bridges and rivers in Dhaka more of a hazard than a help during an outbreak?

While bridges and rivers might normally act as barriers, in Dhaka they become choke points during an outbreak, concentrating crowds and infections, making it nearly impossible to escape or hold a safe position.

What are the risks associated with hospitals in Dhaka during a zombie outbreak?

Hospitals would quickly become overcrowded with patients, and any infected individuals could turn inside, spilling into the streets. Hospital clusters also attract crowds for medical care, which would concentrate both survivors and zombies in tight areas.

What role does climate play in worsening conditions during a zombie outbreak in Dhaka?

Dhaka experiences hot, humid weather, which accelerates zombie decay but also turns the city into a disease-ridden, putrid environment. Flooding and stagnant water can spread cholera, typhoid, and other diseases among survivors.

How does the video describe the likelihood of defending oneself in Dhaka?

With only about 0.4 guns per 100 people, most residents are unarmed and untrained. Survival would require sharp or blunt weapons, but against thousands of zombies in narrow, crowded streets, self-defense is nearly impossible.

What overall conclusion does the video draw about surviving a zombie outbreak in Dhaka?

The video concludes that surviving a zombie outbreak in Dhaka is almost impossible. The city maximizes every disadvantage—overpopulation, poor infrastructure, disease, heat, and limited resources—while offering no real survival advantages.

How does the video compare Dhaka’s population to a real-world reference for perspective?

The video compares Dhaka’s population to Iceland, stating that some districts contain more people than the entire population of Iceland, emphasizing the extreme overcrowding in the city.