shantytown

See also: shanty town

English

shantytown (plural shantytowns)

An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
- 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 173:
  The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old.

area containing a collection of shacks and shanties

Catalan: barri de barraques m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 棚户区 (zh) (pénghùqū)
Dutch: sloppenwijk (nl)
Esperanto: kvartalaĉo
Estonian: pilpaküla
Finnish: hökkelikylä (fi), hökkelikaupunki
French: bidonville (fr) f
German: Informelle Siedlung, Marginalsiedlung, Barackenstadt, Elendsviertel (de), Slum (de)
Greek: παραγκούπολη (el) f (paragkoúpoli)
Icelandic: kofaþorp n
Italian: baraccopoli (it) f
Maori: kuha papa kāinga
Portuguese: favela (pt) f (Brazil), bairro de lata (pt) m (Portugal), musseque (pt) m (Angola)
Spanish: villa miseria f
Swedish: kåkstad (sv) c
Turkish: kenar mahalle, gecekondu mahallesi, gecekondu bölgesi, varoş (tr)

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