Penang’s three islands project: Where are those 400,000 people coming from?

How is Penang going to get over 400,000 additional people on those three islands? Source (pic): Penang Property Talk Anilnetto In 2016, we were told that the population on the three artificial islands in Penang to be created by land reclamation would be  300,000 . The three islands would cover 4,500 acres, making it much larger than Forest City in Johor. But in 2017, reports were saying that the population forecast for the three islands was  367,000 . This was calculated by estimating that 111,327 houses would be built on the three islands, and the average household size in each house would be 3.3 by 2030 And now, in 2019, apparently in item No 6 of the 18-point “advice”, the projected population for those three islands is 446,300. Amazing. Consider this, it took 200 years for the population of Penang Island to reach just over 700,000. And now we are expected to believe that we are going to get over 400,000 additional people crammed into those three islands by 2030? Where are ...