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G host places , dark village , unhabitated city , a second part of abandoned places Centralia - United States
Centralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 9 in 2007,
as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962.
Centraliais now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania, with four fewer residents than
the borough of S.N.P.J. 
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Balestrino - Italy
This village near Savona have suffered many earthquake after wich , the residents have abandoned it
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Koowlon - Hong KongThe Kowloon Walled City as a tiny Chinese enclave that was located in the middle of British Hong Kong for decades.
It was torn down in 1993.
By the end of 1970s the Walled City began to grow. Square buildings folded up into one another as thousands
of modifications were made, virtually none by architects or engineers, until the entire City became monolithic.
Labyrinthine corridors ran through the City, some former streets (at the ground level, and often clogged up with refuse),
and some running through upper floors, through and between buildings. The streets were illuminated by fluorescent lights,
as sunlight rarely reached the lower levels. There were only two rules for construction: electricity had to be provided to avoid
fire, and the buildings could be no more than fourteen stories high, because of the nearby airport.
Eight municipal pipes provided water to the entire structure (although more could have come from wells).
By the early 1980s, Kowloon Walled City had an estimated population of 35,000. The City was notorious for its excess of
brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlours, food courts serving dog meat, and secret factories.
The Kowloon Walled City was also infamous for its high number of unsanitary dentist clinics, since unlicensed dentists
could operate there without prosecution.
This anarchy city was destroyed in 1993.
After the demolition, a park was built in its place with construction starting in May 1994. 
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Photo by Socialist-bakelite-dayaya on Flickr Agdam - Azerbaijan
Ağdam (also, Agdam and Aghdam) was a city in and the capital of the Agdam Rayon in southwestern part of
Azerbaijan.
In July 1993 its Azerbajani population fled from Armenian forces, and it is currently a ghost town.
Despite the fact that no fighting occurred in the city, it was destroyed by the Armenians. Bricks and other materials from the ruined city are currently being used to repair damage elsewhere
in the de facto Nagorno Karabakh Republic.  
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Bodie State park, California, Unites States
Bodie is a ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States,
about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 miles (19 km) east-southeast of
Bridgeport,at an elevation of 8379 feet (2554 m).
As Bodie Historic District, the U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark.
The ghost town has been administered by California State Parks since becoming a state historic park in
1962, and receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. 
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Photo by Bodie-bailey on Flickr Craco - Italy
Craco is an abandoned Italian village located in the Region of Basilicata and the Province of Matera.
About 25 miles inland from the Gulf of Taranto at the instep of the “boot” of Italy,
the medieval village of Craco is typical of the hill towns of the region with mildly undulating shapes
and the lands surrounding it sown with wheat. Because of laandslipe in the 60s, this village was evacuated 
 
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Humberstone - Chile
Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile.
They were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. In 1872, the Guillermo Wendell Nitrate Extraction Company founded the saltpeter works of Santa Laura,
while the region was still a part of Peru. In the same year, James Thomas Humberstone founded the
"Peru Nitrate Company", establishing the works of "La Palma". Both works grew quickly, becoming busy
towns characterized by lovely buildings in the English style.
While La Palma became one of the largest saltpeter extractors of the whole region, Santa Laura did
not do well, as production was low. It was taken over in 1902 by the Tamarugal Nitrate Company.
In 1913 Santa Laura halted its production until the Shanks extraction process was introduced, which
enhanced productivity.
However the economic model collapsed during the Great Depression of 1929 because of the
development of the synthesis of ammonia by the Germans Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, which led to
the industrial production of fertilizers. Practically bankrupt, both works were acquired by
COSATAN (Compañía Salitrera de Tarapacá y Antofagasta) in 1934. COSATAN renamed La Palma
into "Oficina Santiago Humberstone" in honor of its founder. The company tried to produce a competitive
natural saltpeter by modernizing Humberstone, which led to its becoming the most successful saltpeter
works in 1940.
Both works were abandoned in 1960 after the rapid decline that caused COSATAN to disappear in 1958.
In 1970, after becoming ghost towns, they were declared national monuments and opened to tourism.
In 2005 they were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
 
 
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Photo by Aotarola on Flickr Kadykchan - RussiaKadykchan is a ghost town that was built during the World War II for the workers of the coal mines and their
families. In 1996, 6 men died as a result of explosion in a coal mine and the mines were closed.
12000 inhabitants were evacuated to other places leaving the town empty and silent. 
Kolmanskuppe - NamibiaKolmannskuppe (also Kolmanskuppe with just one n; Afrikaans: Kolmanskop) is a ghost town in southern
Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. It was a small mining village and is now a
popular tourist destination run by the joint firm NAMDEB (Namibia-De Beers).
It developed after the discovery of diamonds in the area in 1908, to provide shelter for workers from the
harsh environment of the Namib Desert. The village was built like a German town, with facilities like a
hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theater and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the
first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere. It also had a railway line to Lüderitz.
The town declined after World War I as diamond prices crashed, and operations moved to Oranjemund.
It was abandoned in 1956 but has since been partly restored. The geological forces of the desert mean
that tourists can now walk through houses knee-deep in sand.
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Photo by Geoftheref on Flickr Oradour-sur-Glane - France
Oradour-sur-Glane (Occitan: Orador de Glana) is a town and commune in the Haute-Vienne
département of west-central France. The original village was destroyed on June 10, 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were murdered by a
German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built post-war on a nearby site and the original has
been maintained as a memorial. 
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Varosha - Cyprus
Varosha is an area in the city of Famagusta. Prior to the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus in 1974, it was the
modern tourist area of the city of Famagusta. In the 1970s, Famagusta was the number one tourist destination in Cyprus. To cater to the increasing
number of tourists, many new high-rise buildings and hotels were constructed. During its heyday the
Varosha quarter of Famagusta was not only the number one tourist destination in Cyprus,
but between 1970 and 1974 it was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, and was
a favorite destination of wealthy, rich and famous stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,
Raquel Welch and Brigette Bardot. For the last 35 years the area of Varosha has been left as a ghost town.
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Photo by Jrparkes on Flickr Wittenoom - AustraliaWittenoom is a locality in the Pilbara region of Western Australia about 1,106 kilometres (687 mi)
north-northeast of Perth. During the 1950s, Wittenoom was the Pilbara's biggest town, but was
shut down in 1966 due to health concerns from asbestos mining at the nearby Wittenoom Gorge.
Today it is a ghost town with approximately eight residents[1] who receive no government services.
In December 2006, the Government of Western Australia announced that the town would be degazetted,
and in June 2007, Jon Ford, the Minister for Regional Development, announced that the townsite status
had officially been removed. The town's name was removed from official maps and road signs
and the Shire of Ashburton is able to close roads that lead to contaminated areas.
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