The world's most crowded places (in pictures)

If you like your personal space and hate intruders you should look away now as we've rounded up the busiest, most crowded places in the world where standing room is the only option.

Feel like a sardine on your commute to work? It's nothing compared to what passengers in the world's most crowded train station have to put up with - they have 3.64 million other commuters and over 200 station exits to contend with.

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It's not just railway stations, airports and motorways that where hordes of travellers are found as even going to the beach to relax can be stressful if you opt for China's Number One Bathing Beach, which attracts 200,000 tourists each day during the summer months.

Wondering which tourist attractions to avoid? Thanks to the sheer number of visitors that descend on one American spot, you'll definitely want to add it to your list of places to miss. And cooling off in a swimming pool isn't always as desirable as you imagine if it's the standing room only pool we came across.

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Some of the world's most crowded places include a tiny country on the Mediterranean, an island off Colombia with just 1,247 people to .01 square kilometres and Japan's famous X-Crossing where as many as 2,500 people cross the street at a time from five directions.

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