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Media outlets often label under-occupied development areas in China as "ghost cities" or "ghost towns". [9] [10] However, the two terms are technically misnomers since these terms describe places that previously had economic activity but have since become defunct and abandoned, while many under-occupied developments in China are new installations that have yet to receive residential occupation.
Chaonei No. 81, an abandoned mansion in Beijing's Chaoyangmen neighborhood, is claimed by believers to be haunted by the ghost of a crestfallen woman whom her husband or lover, a Kuomintang official, left when the Communist forces were approaching the city. [3] It was the setting for the 2014 Chinese-language horror film The House That Never ...
This category is settlements within the current borders of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China that have been abandoned through natural or human causes. In same places, new settlements may have been re-established on or near the older site.
Secret underground passageways discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old city in China Treasure-filled grave belonging to a teen girl and child unearthed after 1,300 years Dig at ancient cemetery ...
Chamla is an abandoned village in the Smolyan municipality; Dolna Melna, near the Serbian border. [53] Dragostin is an abandoned village in Gotse Delchev that was erased from the registers in 2008. [54] Kanitz, a village in northwest Bulgaria with 4 residents as of 2019. [55] Kashle, near the Serbian border. [53]
Houtouwan (Chinese: 后头湾; pinyin: Hòutóuwān) is an abandoned fishing village on the northern side of Shengshan Island (Chinese: 嵊山岛; pinyin: Shèngshān dǎo), one of the Shengsi Islands, a chain of 400 islands located 64 kilometres (40 mi) east of Shanghai, China. [1] [2] [3]
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The walls of Khara-Khoto. Khara-Khoto (Chinese: 哈拉浩特; Mongolian: Хар хот (Khar Khot); 'black city'), [1] also known as Heishuicheng or Heishui City (Chinese: 黑水城), is an abandoned city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, China, near the Juyan Lake Basin.