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Hollowed-out villages in China
Hollowed-out villages in China, known as kongxin cun (空心村), are villages whose registered residents have left for urban work but keep their rural houses and land rights.
Holmes Chapel
Holmes Chapel, formerly Church Hulme, is a large Cheshire East village near M6 Junction 18, on the Crewe to Manchester rail line; population 6,669 in 2021, known for its 1753 fire, conservation area, and Harry Styles.
Holy City, California
Holy City, California was a utopian community and tourist stop in the Santa Cruz Mountains, founded in 1919 by "Father" William E. Riker's Perfect Christian Divine Way, marked by white supremacist preaching, and defunct after his 1969 death.
Hook of Holland
Hook of Holland (Hoek van Holland) is a coastal district of Rotterdam, South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Waterweg. Founded with the canal works of 1866-1872, annexed by Rotterdam in 1914, it hosts the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier and the Stena Line ferry to Harwich.
Horkstow
Horkstow, North Lincolnshire: village with a scheduled Romano-British villa west of Horkstow Hall, found 1797. Its fourth-century mosaics, including the famous chariot race and a 15 by 6 m Orpheus pavement, are in Hull and East Riding Museum.
Horlivska Miskrada
Horlivska Miskrada (Горлівська міська рада), the Horlivka City Council, is an urban territorial community in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Horlivka and comprising 11 populated places.
Horncastle
Horncastle: market town in East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, at the Bain-Waring confluence on the Roman walled site of Bannovallum; 13th-century market charter, famous August Horse Fair until 1948, antique shops.
Hou Dejian (侯德建)
Hou Dejian (侯德健, born 1956) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, writer of 'Descendants of the Dragon' (1978), who moved illegally to Beijing in 1983, joined the 1989 Tiananmen hunger strike as one of the Four Gentlemen, and was deported to Taiwan in 1990.
Howth
Howth (Binn Éadair), north Dublin peninsula village in Fingal: working Fishery Harbour Centre (65-vessel fleet, €84.7m seafood turnover), DART terminus, Howth Head cliffs, Ireland's Eye, 8,399 population (2022), St Lawrence castle sold 2019.
Hucclecote
Hucclecote, Gloucestershire: a divided civil parish east of Gloucester, on Ermin Street, with a Roman villa excavated by Bazeley and Clifford, Domesday record, and scheduled monument status.
Humen
Humen (虎门镇) is a town in southwestern Dongguan, Guangdong, China, on the Pearl River estuary, known for Lin Zexu's 1839 opium destruction and as a manufacturing hub.
Huntsham
Huntsham is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon, England, with a Domesday record and a Grade II Victorian court, and also a Roman villa site in Herefordshire.
Hynčice (Vražné)
Hynčice (Heinzendorf), a village part of Vražné in Nový Jičín District, Czech Republic, is the birthplace of Gregor Mendel, born 20 July 1822; his birth house at Hynčice 69 is now a museum.
Icklingham
Icklingham is a village in Suffolk, England, on the River Lark near Mildenhall, site of a Roman small town with a possible Christian cemetery and of the Lower Palaeolithic Devereux's Pit.
Ighiu
Ighiu (Magyarigen) is a commune in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania, 11-12 km from Alba Iulia, known for Bronze Age Coțofeni sites, the Dacian fortress Apoulon, the Roman earthen castrum on Măgulici hill, and medieval churches and castles.
Île-à-la-Crosse
Île-à-la-Crosse (Sakitawak) is a northern village in northwest Saskatchewan, Canada, founded as a fur-trade post in 1776 by Montreal-based traders; the second oldest settlement in the province, a Métis community on Lac Île-à-la-Crosse on the upper Churchill River.
Ilsington
Ilsington, Devon: village and civil parish on eastern Dartmoor in Teignbridge, also called St Michael's parish; 2,445 residents (2021), Domesday manor of Ralph Paynel, Grade I church of 1187 origin, Silverbrook Mine and Haytor granite tramway.
Imber
Imber, Wiltshire ghost village on Salisbury Plain, evacuated December 1943 for US troop training and never returned; St Giles' Church survives, open on limited MoD access days and Imberbus Day.
Indian Creek, Florida
Indian Creek Village, Florida, the "Billionaire Bunker": a 300-acre man-made island in Biscayne Bay, incorporated 1939, with 41 home sites, its own police force, one guarded bridge, and billionaire residents.
Indianola, Texas
Indianola, Texas: ghost town port on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, also called Indian Point or Karlshafen; founded 1846, second port of Texas, destroyed by hurricanes in 1875 and 1886 and abandoned by 1887.
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in Lancaster County, founded in 1754 and known for its Amish country tourism and unusual name.
Ise-Ekiti
Ise-Ekiti (Ìṣẹ̀-Èkìtì) is a town in Ekiti State, Nigeria, headquarters of Ise/Orun LGA (created 1989, 428.6 km²), Ekiti's largest cocoa producer, population about 190,000.
Iseltwald
Iseltwald, a village of about 406 people on a Lake Brienz peninsula in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, famous for its wooden pier from Crash Landing on You, a 5-franc turnstile, and about 1,000 daily visitors.
Islands of the Maldives
The inhabited islands of the Maldives are small coral-island settlements, usually a few hundred residents on under a square kilometer, that function as the country's rural localities; the 2022 census counted 187.
Itchen Abbas
Itchen Abbas: Hampshire village on the River Itchen, 4 miles north of Winchester, with a scheduled Roman villa (excavated 1878-9, mosaics, hypocaust) built on an Iron Age settlement; Domesday manor Icene.
Itilleq
Itilleq is a small settlement in western Greenland, on an island of the same name in the Itilleq fjord, about 45 to 50 km south of Sisimiut.
Ivanovka, Azerbaijan
Ivanovka is a village in Ismailli Rayon, Azerbaijan, about 180 km from Baku, founded in the 1840s by exiled Molokans and home to Azerbaijan's last collective farm.
Jaywick
Jaywick (Jaywick Sands), Essex: a 1928 plotland holiday resort founded by Frank Stedman, later England's most deprived neighbourhood in 2010, 2015, 2019, and 2025, with severe flood risk and ongoing regeneration.
Jiřice
Jiřice is the name of several Czech villages: Jiřice near Milovice (Nymburk District, first mentioned 1479, evacuated 1940), Jiřice u Miroslavi with historic Jewish quarter and cemeteries, and Jiřice in the Pelhřimov District.
John o' Groats
John o' Groats is a Caithness village of about 300 on the Scottish mainland's north coast, named for Dutch ferryman Jan de Groot, famed as the northern end of Britain's Land's End to John o' Groats end-to-end journeys and as a ferry gateway to Orkney.