Four Million

Four to six million people live in Yangon, aka Rangoon.  The recent cyclone swept away a lot of land, the photos below show that the city is now surrounded by water.  Of course lots of people lived on all the rest of that land.  Meanwhile scientists are a lot more confident that global warming is increasing the intensity and number of hurricanes/cyclones/et. al.

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Via NASA

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