02/09/2025
🚨 Imagine living in a real-life ant farm with 20,000+ neighbors—stacked under one roof.
Welcome to Regent International in Hangzhou, China: a skyscraper so massive it’s basically its own mini-city. Originally built as a luxury hotel, it now packs in tens of thousands of people—students, influencers, business owners—all living side by side.
Inside, you don’t even need to step out. Food courts, supermarkets, salons, gyms, pools, internet cafés… it’s all there. Some call it futuristic convenience. Others? Straight-up dystopia.
Reports say around 20,000 residents live there, though capacity could hit 30,000. That’s more people than many small towns in the U.S.—all in one building.
