5 City of the Dead in the World

Initially these cities bustling population. But since the disaster, the city became like a ghost town, or even referred to as a ghost town. These are the five cities to die in our world who gather from various sources.

Oradour-sur-Glane, France


Oradur-sur-Glane is a town in the Haute-Vienne, France destroyed by the attack of German troops on June 10, 1944 or precisely when the World War II lasted fierce.
Although most were destroyed and 642 people died at the time, but a few remaining buildings are still visible there, like a fortress battle that preserved as historic monuments. Haute-Vienne is one of three departments in France are formed with beribukotakan Limoges
Limousin region.

Kolmanskop, Namibia


Kolmanskop is a ghost town in Namibia, Africa, which consists of several buildings in the desert.
Buildings had once been the school buildings, hospitals, casinos and exclusive homes.
However, due to World War I or more precisely the year 1950, all activity stopped there in a state
of quiet and considered haunted.
Far from the year before (1908), in the port of Luderitz Kolmanskop a distance close to the diamond trading market has been very busy.
Namibia is a country located in the southwestern part of Africa and is in the Atlantic coast.

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong


For tourists who want to visit one fort military heritage of China, try to move to the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong the British.
The buildings that had once been hired by a British colonial state (1898) looks solid with a growing population when the Japanese took over Hong Kong during World War II lasted. Even some of the activities of prostitution, gambling,
and drug use also developed at that time. Although in January 1987, the Hong Kong government plans to destroy these high-walled
city and closed in 1993, but it did not go well. Thus, as of December 1995 is made of Kowloon Walled City Park, which still left traces of Hong Kong's heritage, such as government office buildings and a large gate which is called South
Gate.

Wittenoom, Australia


Wittenoom is a town former mining area that had once been able to employ as many as 20 thousand people. Cessation of mining activities was (1966) emphasized the risks of environmental pollution in the form of asbestos materials in the region which resulted in a
thousand people died of population
Wittenoom was the largest town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia which is about 1106
kilometers (687 mil) from Perth.

Humberstone, Chile


Humberstone is a city in Chile that develops in the era 1920 until 1940 when the use of saltpeter Synthesis, known as the lines (high voltage power lines) are needed.
But because it has a less good effect, some residents living in the region began to change places, and in 1961, Humberstone appear to be empty with no one uninhabited. Humberstone is one of the world heritage which has a historical monument in Chile saltpeter Synthesis.

Category: General news, World life