bstix,

The island has a population of about 131 (according to the 2009 census), mostly fishermen and fish traders, who are served by four pubs, a number of brothels, and a pharmacy on the island

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migingo_Island

mwalimu,
@mwalimu@baraza.africa avatar

You will also be amused at the extremes the two countries that claim it, Kenya and Uganda, have gone to assert their rightful ownership.

Migingo is the stock of Kenyan and Ugandan jokes – to imply something so minor yet amplified by politicians.

PineapplePartisan,
@PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world avatar

Looks smelly. Can’t imagine the sanitation or trash removal is very good.

mkukiwamagere,

I’ve been there a couple of times! My uncle used to be a buyer for a fish factory supplying Nile Perch. The reason it is so densely populated is because the lake around there used to be loaded with fish, being far from the mainland, most people fish for weeks based off the island and then sell to the buyers and head off to the mainland for r&r until the next tour.

mwalimu,
@mwalimu@baraza.africa avatar

So, @mkukiwamagere, who owns Migingo? From one East African to another. :)

mkukiwamagere,

If you ask when in Kenya, it is ours but when you are there, we are all Ugandans hehe

danhasnolife,

You say “used to”. Has it been overfished?

mkukiwamagere,

sadly the entire lake has been depleted of fish stocks, pollution has taken care of what overfishing didn’t destroy

KijanaBarubaru,

Nice username!

mkukiwamagere,

hehe asante, hio mbao moja ushaspend ama bado unafikiria utapea nani? 😁

KijanaBarubaru,

Haha. Pole bana, hii uchumi haiwezi kubali nipate mbao hivyo tu.

sblanziko,

What if there’s rough sea?

Piecemakers3Dprints,
@Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world avatar

If you bothered to click, you’d quickly learn it’s in a lake. 🤦🏼‍♂️

SaakoPaahtaa,

What about a rough lake then huh

GCanuck,

I couldn’t get a good vibe for the actual size so I looked it up so you don’t have to.

Area: 2000 m^2 Population: 131

That means every person gets about a parking space (15 m^2) to themselves.

Lamedonyx,

Ummm, either you mixed units or your parking spots are very large.

15m² is slightly less than a 4m x 4m square, that’s basically a small flat (larger than the smallest legal flat in a lot of developed countries, in fact)

TheSporkBomber,

15m^2 is 5mX3m. Or ~9ft by ~15ft. Parking spots in the US are 8.5ft by 18ft.

asphaltindustrial.com/…/parking-space-dimension-g….

So actually smaller than a parking spot.

For reference, a honda civic is 6ft wide by 16ft.

Mr_Blott,

If we’re talking internationally, please don’t use fridges and shoes as measurements

WTF is that in the sizes that 97% of the planet uses? 😂

TheSporkBomber,

Really? You’re afraid of a little math to convert when you speak a language that decided 96 (Ninety Six) should be said four-twenty-ten-six?

Mr_Blott,

Native English speaker, my apologies for being bilingual

I default to that which most people understand. That doesn’t include pedal extremities

TheSporkBomber,

The foot isn’t an SI unit, but the US influence on the internet and social media as a whole means it isn’t some obscure unheard of unit. Besides, the foot has been defined by SI units for a while now, and the survey foot being done away with makes it publically official. It’s just a conversion factor.

Then again being that pedantic is totally a reddit thing, so it’s good to see that hasn’t been lost in the migration.

QuinceDaPence,

There's very close to 3ft in one meter so the Civic is 2Mx5M.

Thing is they included Metric at the top of their comment so I don't know why you couldn't extrapolate.

JGWentworth,

Who said anything about fridges and shoes?

somethingsnappy,

I won’t downvote because obviously we should be using metric, and also it was funny. However, they put it in metric first. We can’t help you if you demand metric but can’t figure out how big that is.

Gilles_D,

Off-topic: If the top comment is exactly the additional detail I wanted to know about I have an old school Reddit moment, in the very best way.

BigPapaE,

My own personal hell

carl_dungeon,

That is true, but keep in mind that it’s home to 131 people. That density number makes it sound like thousands but it’s just that the island is very small.

HeavyRust,
@HeavyRust@lemm.ee avatar

The fact that the island being so small is what makes the density so high is what’s cool to me.

IphtashuFitz,

Looks like it’s right out of Waterworld…

CaptainHowdy,

I came here to comment the same thing

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