List of ghost towns

Australia

• Big Bell, Western Australia
• Boydtown, New South Wales; Originally settled and then abandoned in the 1840s. Remained abandoned until the 1930s. It is now a growing town with commercial and residential developments.
• Broad Arrow, north of Kalgoorlie (Western Australia)
• Cassilis, Victoria
• Cook, South Australia
• Copperfield, Queensland
• Cossack, Western Australia
• Crotty, Tasmania
• Farina, South Australia
• Glen Davis, New South Wales
• Goldsworthy, Western Australia
• Gwalia, north of Kalgoorlie, and 4 km south of Leonora (Western Australia)
• Hill End, New South Wales; Never fully abandoned, now a popular tourist town.
• Jay Creek, Northern Territory
• Joadja near Mittagong
• Kanowna, near Kalgoorlie (Western Australia)
• Kiandra, New South Wales
• Linda, Tasmania
• Malcolm, east of Leonora (Western Australia)
• Mary Kathleen, Queensland,55 km from Mt Isa and 62 km from Cloncurry(Queensland)
• Maytown, Queensland, in the Palmer River goldfields (Queensland)
• Moliagul, Victoria, 202 km north west from Melbourne
• Nannine, Western Australia
• Newnes, New South Wales
• Old Tallangatta, Victoria, most of the township was moved 5 miles west due to the enlargement of Lake Hume. The current township of Tallangatta has approximately 1000 residents.
• Ophir, New South Wales
• Ora Banda, Western Australia
• Pillinger, Tasmania
• Ravenswood, Queensland
• Silverton, near Broken Hill, New South Wales
• Tarcoon, New South Wales
• Walhalla, in the Baw Baw mountains (Victoria)
• Western Tyers, Victoria
• Wittenoom, Western Australia
• Yerranderie in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales

Belgium

• Oosterweel, near Antwerp
• Lillo, near Antwerp
• Oorderen, near Antwerp
• Wilmarsdonk,near Antwerp
• Doel, near Antwerp

Cambodia

• Angkor Wat and vicinity

Canada

Chile

• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
• Puerto Hambre (also called Port Famine)
• Sewell, Chile

China

• Niya

Cyprus

• Varosha (Famagusta), region of Famagusta

Faroe Islands

• Blankskáli, Kalsoy
• Fossá, Borðoy
• Múli, Borðoy
• Skarð, Kunoy
• Skarvanes, Sandoy
• Skálatoftir, northwesternmost village on Borðoy
• Slættanes, Vágar
• Strond, north of Ánir
• Víkar, Vágar
• Víkarbyrgi, Suðuroy

Finland

• Jussarö, an old village near the Jussarö mines

France

• Beaumont-en-Verdunois
• Bezonvaux
• Cumières-le-Mort-Homme
• Fleury-devant-Douaumont
• Haumont-près-Samogneux
• Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre

Oradour-sur-Glane was destroyed by a Waffen-SS battalion during World War II and its population massacred. The village was subsequently rebuilt nearby, but the ruins of the old village have been preserved.

Guyana

• Jonestown, created by cult leader Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, he conducted a mass suicide with his cult, resulting in 913 of the 1,110 inhabitants dead.

Hungary

• Derenk, in north-east Hungary, was depopulated between 1938-1943, so that the surrounding area could be used as hunting grounds for Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary.

India

• Daulatabad
• Dholavira
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Gaur
• Hampi
• Lakhpat
• Lothal
• Mandu
• Old Goa
• Pandua
• Pavagadh
• Ross island (Andaman)
• Somnathpur

Iraq

• Babylon

Iran

• Soltaniyeh
• Choqa Zanbil

Ireland

• Slievemore(Sliabh Mór)

Italy

• Bussana Vecchia, Liguria
• Melito Vecchio (Old Melito), Avellino, Campania
• Consonno (Olginate, Lecco)
• Craco (Matera)
• Poggioreale, Sicily
• Tocco Caudio, Benevento, Campania

Ivory Coast

• Grand Bassam

Japan

• Hashima Island

México

• Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosí
• San Antonio de la Iguana, Nuevo León, Lat 26° 53' 60N, Long 100° 13' 0W
• San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacan Abandoned due to Paricutin volcano

Montserrat

• Plymouth
• St. Patrick's

Namibia

• Kolmanskop and Elizabeth Bay old Diamond mining town

The Netherlands

• Schokland

Norway

• Pyramiden, a Russian settlement on Svalbard

Pakistan

• Amri (Fortified town between 3600 to 3300 BC)
• Chanhudaro (Settlement between 4000-1700 BC)
• Ganeriwala (Urban center around 3000 BC)
• Harappa (Fortified city between 3300-1600 BC)
• Kot Diji (Ancient site about 3000 BC)
• Mehrgarh (Ancient settlement around 7000 BC)
• Mohenjo Daro (Ancient city about 2600-1700 BC)
• Sokhta Koh (Harappan settlement around 2600-1900 BC)
• Takht Bhai (Remains of a famous Buddhist monastery from the 1st century CE)

Poland

• Kłomino

Russia

• Atil
• Ksnyatin
• Mangazeya
• Mologa
• Sarai Berke - said to be 10 times larger than London in the 14th century
• Sarkel
• Sviyazhsk
• Tmutarakan

Saudi Arabia

• Albaten
• Najd
• Shaqra
• Tharmida

Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands

• Deception Island, a Chilean-Norwegian whaling settlement.

South Georgia

• Grytviken, a Norwegian whaling settlement on the United Kingdom territory of South Georgia
• Leith Harbour
• Ocean Harbour
• Husvik
• Stromness
• Prince Olav Harbour

Spain

• Belchite, Zaragoza, Aragón
• Ochate, Condado de Treviño, Burgos, Castilla y León
• La Cornudilla, Valencia
• Fiscal, Towns of Lacort, Jánovas and more in the region called "Solana de Fiscal" - Huesca (Aragón)
• Pernui in Sort, Lleida, Cataluña

Turkey

• Troy

Turkmenistan

• Merv
• Old Urgench

Ukraine

• Chernobyl
• Pripyat

United Kingdom

• Ashopton, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
• Derwent, Derbyshire (under reservoir)
• Bothwellhaugh, North Lanarkshire (Under Strathclyde Loch)
• Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
• Dunwich, Suffolk (under the sea)
• Hallsands, Devon (destroyed by a storm in 1917)
• Imber, Wiltshire (taken over by Army in 1943)
• Knaptoft, Leicestershire (deserted in Seventeenth Century)
• Lynford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
• Martinsthorpe, Rutland
• Nether Hambleton and Middle Hambleton, Rutland (both under reservoir)
• North Rona, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (evacuated in 1844)
• Over the Border, Middlesbrough, (largely abandoned but plans to regenerate the area) )
• Saint Kilda, an island off Scotland (evacuated in 1930)
• Shipden, Norfolk (under the sea)
• Stanford, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
• Sturston, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
• Tottington, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
• Tyneham, Dorset (taken over by Army in 1943)
• West Tofts, Norfolk (taken over by Army in 1942)
• Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire (Deserted Medieval Village)

United States

See also

• Ghost town
• Ghost towns
• List of places with fewer than ten residents
• List of unused highways

References

External links

• Ghosttowns.com
• GhostTownsCanada.ca Lots of pictures of Canadian ghost towns