Modern Ghost Town, Ordos, China

Ordos, China is a Modern Ghost Town. It was meant as home for one million people, but it remains nearly empty five years after construction began.
Ordos City, Ordos Shi (Mongolian: , Ordus; Chinese: 鄂尔多斯; Pinyin: È'ěrduōsī) is one the twelve major subdivisions Inner Mongolia, China. It is located within the Ordos Loop the Yellow River. It is ficially a daji shi or prefecture-level city, but shi ('city') here means a city and its surrounding district. The seat government at Dongsheng. Ordos City (ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠰ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ) proper is a new town being built in the west-center the region south Baotou. The Ordos Shi was founded on February 26th 2001 on the basis the former Yeke Juu league (Chinese: 伊克昭盟 Yikezhao Meng; Mongol: ᠶᠡᠺᠡ ᠵᠣᠤ), a name used for the area since the 17th Century. "Ordos" means "palaces" in the Mongolian language; the name is sometimes claimed to be related to the eight white yurts Genghis Khan.
The city's prefectural administrative region occupies 86,752 km² and covers the bigger part the Ordos Desert, although the urban area itself is relatively small. The region borders the prefecture-level cities Hohhot which is to its east, Baotou to its northeast, Bayan Nur to its north, Alxa League to its northwest, Wuhai to its west, the province Ningxia to its southwest, and the provinces Shaanxi and Shanxi to its south. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, which including the new Ordos City, a whole city fancy buildings and abundant infrastructure that is seldom used by residents.