Examples
Shanty towns are present in a number of countries. The largest shanty town in Asia is the Orangi Township, in Karachi, Pakistan. while the largest in Africa is Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa. While shanty towns are less common in Europe, the growing influx of illegal immigrants have fueled shantytowns in cities commonly used as a point of entry into the EU, including Athens and Patras in Greece.
In francophone countries, shanty towns are referred to as bidonvilles (French for "can town"); such countries include Tunisia, Haiti, and France itself – see bidonvilles in France.
Other countries with shanty towns include India, South Africa (where they are often called squatter camps) or imijondolo, Kenya, the Philippines (often called squatter areas), Venezuela (where they are known as barrios), Brazil (favelas), Argentina (villas miseria), West Indies such as Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago (where they are known as Shanty town), and Peru (where they are known as "young towns"). There are also shanty town population in countries such as Bangladesh and the People's Republic of China.
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