Hundreds of Thousands? That would be at least 200,000. Even the most cursory glance would tell you there isn't anywhere near 200,000 people there.
Anyone care to estimate how many people are actually in this picture? There seems to be some cars in the picture that could be used as a reference to determine the square footage. How many people standing per 100 square feet?
There are quite a few people there, but nowhere near 200,000.
I was thinking the same question. I wondered how the news service could put up such a picture and then caption it with "hundreds of thousands".
If the picture is divided into 16 x 24 = 384 blocks and a density of 20 people are assigned to each block, then there are about 7680 people.
This estimate does not account for sparse areas in the photo so it is a conservative estimate. Even if the density estimate is doubled or tripled, the number of people in the photo is less than 25k.
So I believe you are right.