15 Largest Abandoned Cities on Earth

When you think of a city, a bustling metropolis filled with big companies, beautiful monuments, and massive skyscrapers probably comes to mind. However, there are some

cities

that have been almost completely

abandoned

. Creepy and desolate, a sign of a time gone by. Here are the 15

largest

abandoned

cities

. cities on

earth

number 15. Krakow, Italy When it comes to abandoned places, few are as picturesque as Krakow, Italy, located in the province of Basilicata in southern Italy, and was founded in 540 AD. and it has an amazing appearance because it was built. on a 400 meter high cliff built in such a place so that the city could defend itself from possible invaders said defense mechanism worked well 1500 years ago, but eventually led to the fall of the city, this is because Krakow finally fell.

It became extremely vulnerable to natural disasters and several landslides caused extensive damage. These landslides eventually became so severe that in 1963 the Italian government expelled all residents of Krakow and moved them to the nearby city of Krakow Peshira. Since then, it has become a popular tourist attraction and filming location with such iconic films as the passion of the christ and christ stopped him italy having been filmed there number 14 famestown china in general, the copies are often much worse than the originals and Thames Town in China is an excellent example of this built to accommodate overflows of people from Shanghai.

It was modeled after Victorian London, featuring cobbled streets, Victorian terraces, corner shops and red telephone boxes. However, despite its charming appearance, it has not been very pleasant for the Shanghai residence, since despite being designed to accommodate 10,000 people. It currently remains almost empty, however, considering that Shanghai is a city that is certainly not in decline, we are sure that people will be forced to move there sooner rather than later. Kangbashi District Number 13, Ordo City, China, while most of the city's districts are busy, vibrant, and of course, packed. of people The Kangbashi shopping district in Ordo City is not located in the northern region of China in Inner Mongolia.

Construction began in 2003 and, despite having the capacity to house up to 300,000 people, in 2010 it only had a population of between 20 and 30,000. and since then the population has only grown slightly as a result, despite having huge skyscrapers residential and office and high-tech facilities, it remains a very quiet place to live at number 12 Kennecott, United States, the city officially holds the title of being the northernmost on this list is kennicut located very north in the snowy state of alaska. It is notable for having produced around $200 million in copper ore between 1911 and 1938, which today would be worth around three billion dollars;

However, in 1938 the mines officially closed, turning Connecticut into a true ghost town, but it has since been incorporated into the Rengel Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, which is the

largest

national park in the United States and, as As a result, it has seen a steady flow of tourists over the 11 years. Kaiokoi Turkey World War I It was easily one of the most brutal conflicts in history, but we think you would agree that few cities felt its effects so strongly. strength like Turkey Kaiokoi, built in the 18th century. It is located in southwestern Turkey, but for years it had a sizable Greek population.

However, once the First World War occurred. The Ottoman Turks began to persecute the Greeks and this came to a head in 1923 when a population exchange between the two countries caused the Greeks living there to be forced to evacuate, resulting in the city being quickly abandoned and He has since become a small-scale terrorist. site number 10 urador sagulan france urador sugan was certainly never a large city, it stands out for having one of the most tragic stories on this list occupied by the germans during the second world war it entered the bad books of the nazis when in 1944 it was reported That highly decorated SS officer Helmut Kumpf had been killed by the city's resistance fighters.

As a result, SS officer Adolf Diekmann decided that revenge was necessary and so he marched into the city with several SS troops, forcing men into a barn and women and children into a church, both groups were brutally murdered by soldiers due to a combination of gunshots and burns, resulting in a total death toll of 642. Nearly all of the citizens of The city were killed that day, so, after the conclusion of the war, President Charles de Gaulle ordered that the burned ruins of the old town be left intact as a memorial to the victims, as a result, with the exception of a museum. , the site remains intact and uninhabited to this day number nine ashkebot turkmenistan although it is not technically an abandoned city a trip through This huge metropolis will soon make you realize that it is on the emptier side.

You see Ashgabat, which is the capital of the former Soviet state of Turkmenistan. It is very impressive at first glance and holds the Guinness World Record for being built with more marble than any other city. The planet is packed with massive monuments, spectacular statues and glittering buildings, including a grand mosque and a major sports complex that was used for the 2017 Asian Indoor Games. Yet despite all this glamour, the city remains almost empty, this is because, instead of investing in the economy. projects, the government has consistently used its huge oil and gas revenues to make Ashgabat a show of wealth in an otherwise impoverished nation.

As a result, it has consistently evicted people from their homes without compensation and suppressed the free press to allow these construction projects to take place. pass despite the fact that the country's GDP per capita is less than seven thousand dollars if one also considers that Ashgabat is considered one of the most expensive places in the world to live thanks to Turkmenistan's very high inflation and the lack of access even to the most commodities, it becomes painfully clear why this city has essentially become a huge ghost town. We are constantly adding more people to the top five production team to bring you the best content.

Make sure you subscribe with notifications on and hit like button number eight. pripyat ukraine while war, economics or central planning are the most common reasons why cities are abandoned pripyat is distinguished by having been abandoned largely thanks to a nuclear disaster that is due to the fact that on april 26, 1986 A catastrophic meltdown took place inside reactor number four at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant, throwing flames and radioactive material into the sky over Pripyat, which was a nearby city built to house the plant's scientists and workers. As a result, the city's 49,000 inhabitants were evacuated within 36 hours and to ensure that no one left, the Soviet government established a 29-kilometer exclusion zone around Pripyat and the power plant, but despite this, many former Residents have had significant health problems related to their nuclear exposure despite being in the radioactive city for less than two days and, most incredible of all, there.

There are still some who refuse to leave Pripyat, even after the nuclear meltdown; This population constitutes about 400 people to this day; However, despite this massive disaster making Pripyat inhospitable for at least the next few centuries, authorities have deemed it safe enough for tourists to venture inside. As a result, virtually anyone can purchase a guided tour of the abandoned city these days, as long as you're willing to shell out between one hundred and five hundred dollars per person, so if you're planning on visiting Eastern Europe anytime soon, we recommend I strongly recommend that you include this spectacular city on your bucket list number seven.

Coleman stop namibia mining towns tend to have a fairly finite lifespan and coleman scop is certainly no exception located in the southwestern corner of the country of namibia in southwestern africa where it was founded. In 1908, after a nearby railroad worker found a large diamond in the area, sparking a massive diamond mining boom, German workers flocked to the town, which eventually grew to have not only amenities like a hospital, a ballroom, a theater, a sports hall and a casino, but also the The first X-ray station in the southern hemisphere and the first tram in Africa. However, in 1928 a much larger deposit with much easier to find diamonds was found 260 kilometers south of Coleman Stop and in the Second World War the Coleman Scop mines began to be seriously depleted. which led to the city being completely abandoned in 1956 due to the natural forces of the desert.

Coleman Scope is now covered in knee-deep sand and best of all, it can still be visited to this day, however, because it is located within a restricted mid-desert area known as spargabiet, visitors You must obtain a permit before venturing inside the United States' North Brother Island number six. Although not technically a city, this abandoned place certainly has a much more disturbing history than many of the other places on this list, that's for sure. Because this island is Located in New York's East River, it is famous for being the location of a hospital for people with highly contagious diseases known as Riverside Hospital.

Opened in 1885 and primarily housed people with diseases such as typhoid tuberculosis and smallpox, with Mary Malin typhoid being the most famous. Patient after being briefly closed during World War II, it was used to house war veterans in the 1950s and later repurposed as a treatment center for teenage drug addicts; However, in 1963 the hospital closed its doors forever and the island has been abandoned since then. and today it is off limits to visitors, it is being used as a wildlife sanctuary; however, research and planning of the area is currently underway to perhaps reopen the island to the public in the near future. number five famegusta cyprus if we went back in time to the middle ages you would see a thumagusta that is very different to the current version, that is because during this period it was the most important port city on the island, as it was a gateway to the trade with the extremely wealthy ports of the However, Cyprus has since experienced much turmoil and in response to a failed Greek coup in 1974, Turkish troops invaded the city that same year in particular, annexing the city's Varusha district, thus which not only led to the expulsion of all Greeks.

Cypriots who inhabit it, but the section of the city with barbed wire and widespread looting by the Turks fortunately since then the situation has been greatly alleviated and today Cyprus is in a state of uneasy peace between the Greek factions and Turkish on the island; Despite this, the de facto Turkish government of northern Cyprus has banned the re-entry of the ancient Greek cypress, not only preventing them from living in their homes but even prohibiting them from recovering their valuables. The reason for this is extremely complicated, although factors such as security. and the commercial importance of the city have been cited yet until a fully unified Cyprus becomes a reality, this will likely remain the status quo;

However, in 2017, Northern Cyprus made a surprising move when they opened Varus' world-class beaches to Turkish Cypress trees and Turkish citizens. And in 2019 they took this a step further by announcing that Varus, previously world-class hotels, would reopen in late 2020; However, with many of the details still unclear, only time will tell who will be able to get into 4 Plymouth Montserrat. If you've never heard of the island territory of Montserrat before, we wouldn't blame you. Located in the southeastern Caribbean, Montserrat is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom and after Plymouth became its first European settlement in 1632, it remained largely forgotten by the world at large.

However, a few hundred years later, its existence would come to an abrupt end in July 1995, a series of large eruptions at the Suffra Hills volcano, which had been dormant for centuries, sent pyroclastic flows and ash across the south of the island as a result in December. That year the entire city was completely evacuated and residents were allowed to return in 1997. However, in June 1997the volcano began to erupt once again and these eruptions led to a permanent evacuation of most of Plymouth's citizens shortly after, fortunately for the Montserrat islanders. This evacuation was timely because between August 4 and 8 of that year, a new series of large eruptions destroyed approximately 80 percent of the city, burying it under 1.4 meters of ash.

This hot material burned many of the buildings, making habitation almost impossible for many. of the residents and causing the British Navy to intervene and evacuate those who had remained in the city, as a result a large portion of the island's residents ended up returning to the UK mainland and in turn the island became economically depressed due to both its decrease in population and destruction of most of its economically profitable businesses today the southern part of the island is still considered an exclusion zone since the volcanic activity in the area has not yet stopped if you want to visit it there are tours that organize excursions to this exclusion zone, however, considering that the volcano is still active, you would definitely enter at your own risk number three on Japan's Hashima Island, as we mentioned before, mining towns are generally not places with a very long lifespan and Hashima Island in Japan.

It was certainly no exception, after a coal mining colony was established on the island in 1887, workers and their families began to flock to the island, but after a very short period of time the entire colony was purchased. by mitsubishi and would soon become an extremely profitable company which became even more evident after Korean and Chinese prisoners of war were forced to work in these mines during World War II, even after the war the Hashima Islands remained growing, but at their peak in the 1950s they were home to 5,200 residents. in a space of less than a square kilometer, making it one of the most densely populated places in the world, however, in 1974 Mitsubishi closed its mine, causing the island to be abandoned almost immediately, as a result, the The island remains in a state of ruin, as its concrete apartments house schools, barbershops and swimming pools.

They are all empty, but despite this neglect, Hashima Island has been able to generate more than its share of controversies. The first such controversy occurred in 2009, when Japan nominated the island as a UNESCO world heritage site because it was an important stimulating factor. The Meiji Industrial Revolution in Japan, however, South and North Korea opposed this addition because they felt the island's legacy as a prisoner of war camp made it unworthy of a UNESCO title, but for the benefit of both. , South Korea and Japan eventually reached a compromise in which Japan agreed to acknowledge the island's dark past to tourists, prompting South Korea to withdraw its opposition, as a result of which in 2015 it was officially named a World Heritage Site. of Humanity by UNESCO.

Best of all, if you want to visit Hashima Island, you certainly can. because the Japanese government opened the island to visitors in 2009 and as a result it can now be seen for a price equivalent to between 35 and 50 US dollars, therefore, if you want to visit one of the most unique islands in the Japanese archipelago then the island Hashima is your number two dream destination, Bodhi California, if you're the type who enjoys the old spaghetti western and you've probably heard of Bodhi California, located in the eastern half of the state, bordering Nevada, the area It was first established after small amounts of gold were found in 1859 and became a full town after large deposits of gold were found in 1876.

This convinced an influx of gold seekers to travel to the town. to try his luck and in 1879. Bodhi had a population of between seven and ten thousand people and a total of two thousand buildings; However, this influx also began to give it a reputation for being, quote, a sea of ​​sin and the city became famous for its various shootouts, gambling rings and brothels. the gold deposits and wild west shenanigans couldn't last forever; in fact in 1910 the town only had a few hundred inhabitants and in 1942 the last mine was closed and everyone moved out at the end of the war in 1945, as a result it lay still for a couple of decades as a ghost town Completely abandoned, however, in 1961 it was designated as a National Historic Landmark and in 1962 the California State Legislature authorized the creation of Bodhi State Historic Park, leading to the remaining 170 buildings remaining in a state of disrepair. stopped, meaning that although it has not been restored, but rather protected from decaying further and, although this means that no one can live in bodhi anymore in a sense, it is now much more popular than during its heyday, that It is because to this day it receives around two hundred thousand visitors a year and is easily one of the most popular ghost towns in the world.

Fordlandia Brazil number one, while the Ford Motors company may have made great strides in improving the lives of workers across the United States. In Brazil, the company was not very successful. You see, Henry. Ford began to look at Brazil when he wanted to get his own rubber for his tires, since he was tired of having to pay it to British companies that had a monopoly on the resource, which led him to invest about 20 million dollars or around 290 million today to create the equivalent of an American working class city on the Tabajos River that runs through the famous Amazon rainforest, founded in 1928 and called Fordlandia, created amenities such as American-style bungalows, swimming pools, hotels and even a golf course .

Of course, in the hope that his Brazilian workers would get used to this type of community. However, unfortunately for Ford, the project became a disaster almost immediately. The first major problem was that there were no roads connecting Fortlandia to the rest of Brazil, therefore the only way to enter the city was by the Tabajos River, which turned out to be a logistical nightmare; Then American planners who had little knowledge of tropical rubber cultivation made the mistake of growing all the rubber trees together instead of spacing them out, causing them to quickly succumb to tree fungal diseases and various tree-eating bugs. crops, but worst of all, the Americans managed to infuriate their Brazilian workers by imposing strict sets of rules including bans on alcohol, tobacco and anything related to football, causing the workers to revolt. in the harvest to fail. move 40 kilometers downstream to a more fertile site and while this site ended up producing some rubber, it was around this time that synthetic rubber became easy to mass produce, making natural rubber obsolete, making which caused Henry Ford's grandson, Henry Ford II, to sell it.

All of his Brazilian lands returned to the Brazilian government for pennies on the dollar in 1945, losing millions in the process. As a result, the city now lies abandoned in the depths of the Amazon and still receives curious visitors from time to time, that's all we have. for you all today and thank you all for watching, let us know in the comments below which abandoned city you would like to visit someday and if you enjoyed this video don't forget to like, subscribe and hit the notification button so you never miss out lose it. in any of our latest content until next time