List of ghost towns by country

[49] According to the Institute for Research of Population and People at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Bulgaria has over 500 ghost towns.

[89] They either have no inhabitants according to the last census, or they are actually in the bottom of an accumulation lake or have completely disappeared from the face of the earth.

Some villages have no construction, no access roads, but they continue to remain in the official data bases of the Romanian state.

[89] Some of the localities that did not have any inhabitants at the 2011 census are: After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, hundreds of settlements within the exclusion zone were evacuated.

Some have remained abandoned ever since, including: After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many people fled and were evacuated from towns and cities throughout Ukraine, including: Also see List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom In 1942 and 1943, in preparation for the Allied assault on Normandy, several villages were evacuated to be used as training grounds for the British Army and U.S. forces.