KOMPAS.TV – What happens if the entire city is abandoned and becomes a ghost town? Here are 5 ghost towns that were abandoned by their inhabitants:
1. Hashima Island, Japan
Is the area that holds coal supply in Japan, became the key holder of the advancement of Japanese industry at that time.
Reporting from History, in the 1950s Hashima Island was only 16 hectares in size, and inhabited 5,200 inhabitants.
Assessed too narrow, the coal mine on Hashima Island was closed and the entire population left the island.
Now the island is empty, leaving only tall buildings that are about to collapse.
2. Pripyat, Ukraina
The Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located in the city of Pripyat, Ukraine.
The explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear facility on April 26, 1986 caused dangerous radiation throughout the city, the area up to a radius of 18 miles around it was closed, leaving the City of Pripyat as a ghost town for more than 3 decades.
3. Bodie, California
Who would have thought there was a ghost town in one of the major cities in the United States?
Bodie is a gold mining town founded in 1876 and flourishing for nearly a century.
The city was eventually abandoned due to city bankruptcies, fires, and voluntary violence.
4. Varosha, Cyprus
Varosha is an abandoned resort in the Republic of Cyprus near the Mediterranean Sea which was originally a tourism city with celebrity-class luxury amenities.
Varosha was abandoned due to the conflict between ethnic groups and the Turkish state.
The northern third of the island was invaded, forcing the inhabitants of Varosha to leave the city in a hurry.
5. Oradour-sur-Glane, Perancis
It is a ghost town in France that has a dark history. Not because they were abandoned, the inhabitants were massacred by the Nazis in revenge on France during World War II.
Launch Holocaust Encyclopedia, the Nazi armored division of the Wffen-SS massacred 642 residents and destroyed the village by bombarding with grenades in 1944.
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