Rising sea levels could submerge much of Bangkok, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta and Mumbai by 2050, according to Climate Central, a United States-based non-profit organisation.
It claims that southern Vietnam may all but disappear, and 10 per cent of Thailand's population now lives on land that will be underwater by mid-century. The displaced may number in the hundreds of millions.
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