Europe thumb|Main street of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, unchanged since the German massacre thumb|Abandoned mining building on the Jussarö island in Ekenäs, Raseborg, Finland thumb|The forest occupies the territory of the village of , deserted by urbanization. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia Urbanization – the migration of a country's rural population into the cities – has left many European towns and villages deserted. An increasing number of settlements in Bulgaria are becoming ghost towns for this reason; at the time of the 2011 census, the country had 181 uninhabited settlements. In Hungary, dozens of villages are also threatened with abandonment. The first village officially declared as "dead" was in the late 1970s, but later it was repopulated as an eco-village. Some other depopulated villages were successfully saved as small rural resorts, such as Kán, Tornakápolna, Szanticska, Gorica, and Révfalu.
Europe thumb|Main street of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, unchanged since the German massacre thumb|Abandoned mining building on the Jussarö island in Ekenäs, Raseborg, Finland thumb|The forest occupies the territory of the village of , deserted by urbanization. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia Urbanization – the migration of a country's rural population into the cities – has left many European towns and villages deserted. An increasing number of settlements in Bulgaria are becoming ghost towns for this reason; at the time of the 2011 census, the country had 181 uninhabited settlements. In Hungary, dozens of villages are also threatened with abandonment. The first village officially declared as "dead" was in the late 1970s, but later it was repopulated as an eco-village. Some other depopulated villages were successfully saved as small rural resorts, such as Kán, Tornakápolna, Szanticska, Gorica, and Révfalu.