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Media outlets often label underoccupied 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 underoccupied developments in China are new installations that have yet to receive residential occupation.
Blurred intentionally on Bing Maps. [15] Rendered in lower resolution on Google Maps and Mapquest. Heliport [16] in El Ejido: Spain: Square blurred on Google and Bing. Visible e.g. in HERE WeGo and Yandex.
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.
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.
Kangbashi District's predecessor was Qingchunshan Development Zone, an autonomous region level development zone, approved to be established in December 2000.In 2003, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region agreed to transfer the administrative area of Qingchunshan Development Zone from Yiqi to Dongsheng District; in June of the same year, the fourth session of the People's Congress of Ordos City ...
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 ...
Everyone loves Google Maps... except China. Google seems to have locked down the U.S. mapping market; Google Maps won the distinction of being App Store's No. 1 free app just seven hours after its ...
People flooded Bodie during the gold rush of the late 1800s, but when the promise of riches faded, the place found itself spookily abandoned. It now remains in "arrested decay." Google Street View