Editing Ghost town (section)

===Asia===
[[File:Chenggong, Kunming, Yunnan province.jpg|thumb|Unoccupied residential complexes in the [[Chenggong District]], Kunming, China]]
The town of [[Dhanushkodi]], India is a ghost town. It was destroyed during the [[1964 Rameswaram cyclone]] and remains uninhabited in the aftermath.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Did you know? Dhanushkodi is the place where you can see the origin of the Ram Setu!|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/travel/destinations/story/dhanushkodi-ram-setu-adams-bridge-rameshwaram-tamil-nadu-travel-india-tourism-lifetr-343293-2016-09-26|last=Duttagupta|first=Samonway|website=India Today|date=26 September 2016 |language=en|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref>

Many abandoned towns and settlements in the former [[Soviet Union]] were established near [[Gulag]] labour camps to supply necessary services. Since most of these camps were abandoned in the 1950s, the towns were abandoned as well. One such town is located near the former Gulag camp called [[Butugychag]] (also called Lower Butugychag). Other towns were deserted due to deindustrialisation and the economic crises of the early 1990s attributed to [[post-Soviet conflicts]] – one example being [[Tkvarcheli]] in Georgia, a [[coal mining]] town that suffered a drastic population decline as a result of the [[War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)|War in Abkhazia]] in the early 1990s and [[Aghdam]], made ruined and uninhabited after the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]].

Although in 2010s Chinese [[Underoccupied developments in China|ghost cities]] became a frequent feature of discourse regarding [[Economy of China|China's economy]] and [[Urbanization in China|urbanization]], underoccupied cities filled up.<ref name=":102">{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Kerry |title=China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China is Number One |date=2023 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |isbn=978-1-350-26724-4 |location=London |author-link=Kerry Brown (historian)}}</ref>{{Rp|page=151}} Writing in 2023, academic and former UK diplomat [[Kerry Brown (historian)|Kerry Brown]] described the idea of Chinese ghost cities as a popular bandwagon which was shown to be a myth.<ref name=":102" />{{Rp|page=151–152}}

The town of [[Namie, Fukushima|Namie]], along with several other towns in [[Fukushima Prefecture]], Japan, was temporarily evacuated as a result of the [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster]] following the [[2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]]. Following ongoing decontamination works, several portions of Namie have been fully reopened to residents, allowing reconstruction and renovation of the town's buildings to be undertaken and resettlement of the area to take place.<ref>{{cite web | last=Pearce | first=Fred | title=A nuclear ghost town in Japan welcomes back residents this week | website=New Scientist | date=March 27, 2017 | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2125805-a-nuclear-ghost-town-in-japan-welcomes-back-residents-this-week/ | access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref>