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Seven modern ghost towns nobody wants to live in

Every year, new cities are built from scratch in the world. However, they do not always find their inhabitants. Hundreds of new residential buildings are empty, waiting eternally for their owners. Such newborn ghost cities are in different parts of the world, writes Adme.

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  1. Kangbashi, China

China ranks first in the world in the number of buildings under construction. New cities are erected annually in the Celestial Empire, but despite the high population density, many of them remain unpopulated.

One of the suspected reasons is extremely high real estate prices. Another version talks about insurance in case of war. If Chinese densely populated megacities are attacked from the air, it will be very expensive to restore them. It is much more profitable and easier to resettle the surviving population in new cities.

The largest Chinese ghost town is in Ordos County, where a rich coal deposit was discovered. Thousands of residential buildings were erected in the city of Kangbashi, as well as all the necessary infrastructure, including the airport, parks, theaters, street sculptures and a museum.

The city was built since 2001 and was designed for 1 million inhabitants. However, now only 2% of the planned population lives in it.

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  1. Siruenia, Spain

Ciruenia was a small village in northern Spain in the early 2000s. But a few years later on its outskirts in record time a whole city was built, designed for 10 thousand people.

It has built more than a hundred cottages and apartment buildings, as well as restaurants, shops, pools and even a golf club. However, in 2008 there was a global economic crisis, which prevented the settlement of the city.

Now a little more than a hundred people live in Siruenia, but all the necessary infrastructure is functioning properly.

Nevertheless, the city never becomes truly empty, as pilgrims go to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela here.

  1. Tianducheng, China

In the east of China there is a small copy of Paris - the city of Tianducheng. It was built in the same style: it has its own Champs Elysees, Notre Dame Cathedral and even a smaller copy of the Eiffel Tower, which is 108 meters high.

The city was erected in 2007 and is designed for 100 thousand residents who want to change the rural way of life to urban.

However, at this stage, “eastern Paris” is not even a quarter populated. Real estate prices turned out to be prohibitive, as in other similar settlements in the Middle Kingdom.

Now Tianduchen is more reminiscent of large-scale French scenery, because the newlyweds chose it for wedding photo shoots.

  1. Kilamba, Angola

The new city of Kilamba was built by a Chinese investment corporation 30 km from Luanda, the capital of Angola. He is the embodiment of the election promises of the country's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who guaranteed the construction of a huge amount of housing in the shortest possible time.

The construction of Kilamba was completed in 2012. In the city, 750 multi-storey residential buildings for 0,5 million people, more than 100 commercial premises and dozens of schools were erected.

The total construction cost is estimated at $ 3,5 billion.

However, despite all efforts, the population of the city is about 1000 people. It turned out that the country has virtually no middle class. Most of the population lives below the poverty line, existing at $ 2 per day, therefore can not afford to buy an apartment, even with a mortgage.

  1. Thames Town, China

Another Chinese ghost town is a smaller copy of London. Thames Town covers an area of ​​only 1 square. km and is designed for 10 thousand inhabitants.

It has its own Thames, Victorian-style houses, a Gothic church, red telephone booths, as well as statues of Harry Potter and James Bond. The construction budget of the city amounted to about $ 800 million.

The settlement of the pseudo-European town was prevented by the economic crisis of 2008, which showed that the layer of wealthy Chinese for whom the city was designed is practically absent. Very few people could afford housing in “Chinese London”, so it remains a ghost.

Now the Thames Town, like Tianduchen, is only a gigantic wedding decoration.

  1. Masdar, UAE

The eco-city of Masdar is being built 17 km from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The project is valued at $ 22 billion. The project is based on the principle of responsibility, which means a sustainable ecological environment in the city. This will be achieved by providing energy from renewable sources, minimizing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, and a system for the complete processing of municipal waste.

Masdar is designed for 50 thousand inhabitants, but now only 300 people have settled there, among them mainly students of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.

Cars are forbidden here and only one store is operating, so for most goods you need to go to another city.

Despite the fact that the project is almost completed, the city is still empty. One of the reasons that prevented the settlement was the economic crisis. In addition, a population accustomed to living in luxury may not be ready to live on the principle of responsibility that underlies Masdar.

  1. Kijondong, DPRK

The North Korean village of Kijondong is located at the demilitarized zone and is the only settlement that can be seen from the side of South Korea. The village was built in the 1950s with the goal of promoting the high standard of living that awaits all southerners who have crossed the border.

Despite the official version that 200 ordinary families live in the village, with the help of modern optics you can see that the houses are empty boxes without interior spaces. The light in the village lights up in the same parts of the buildings, always at the same time. Sometimes in the village you can see soldiers, as well as women washing windows, the same for 15 years.

Until 2004, loudspeakers with propaganda texts directed towards the south worked in the village. Realizing the futility of such programs, the North Koreans began to broadcast military marches at full volume for 20 hours a day. Then South Korea launched a response in the form of roaring speakers with South Korean rock music. When the noise became unbearable, the radio on both sides was turned off forever.

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Bonus: Naypyidaw, Myanmar

In 2005, the Myanmar government completely unexpectedly decided to move the country's capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw. The new capital was built in the middle of the jungle in an uninhabited part of the country and occupied an area of ​​7054 square meters. km It took billions of dollars and several years of construction to get the area a new status.

In addition to government buildings and residential buildings, numerous shopping centers and hotels, golf courses, a sports complex, a herbarium and even a zoo were erected in the city.

The exact time of the transfer was set at 6:36 in the morning by astrologers, to whose opinion the Burmese are actively listening. The reason for the change of the capital is still a mystery. Among the most interesting versions sounded the fear of the authorities before a large crowd of people and possible strikes, as well as the opinion of astrologers.

Initially, members of the government lived here. According to rumors, they were ordered to move to the new capital within 48 hours, but few carried out the will of the authorities. Therefore, for a long time, Naypyidaw was a deserted place with empty houses and streets. However, now, after a dozen years, it is a vibrant city with an ever-growing population.

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