industrial town

An industrial town is a settlement whose economy and landscape are dominated by factories, warehouses, and related infrastructure supporting manufacturing and heavy industry.

Observed surface forms (5)

• industrial city ×12
• mining town ×7
• company town ×1
• industrial settlement ×1
• large industrial town ×1

Instances (32)

• Walsall via concept surface "large industrial town"
• Runcorn
• Widnes
• Mount Isa via concept surface "mining town"
• Kryvyi Rih via concept surface "industrial city"
• Port Talbot
• Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States via concept surface "industrial settlement"
• Kanpur via concept surface "industrial city"
• Neath
• 10th of Ramadan City via concept surface "industrial city"
• Churchill Falls via concept surface "company town"
• Grangemouth
• Blackburn
• Helwan via concept surface "industrial city"
• Nizhny Tagil via concept surface "industrial city"
• Karaganda via concept surface "industrial city"
• Labrador City via concept surface "mining town"
• Germiston via concept surface "industrial city"
• Shubra El Kheima via concept surface "industrial city"
• Kalgoorlie via concept surface "mining town"
• Laurium via concept surface "mining town"
• Vanderbijlpark via concept surface "industrial city"
• Rustavi via concept surface "industrial city"
• Hebburn-on-Tyne, England
  surface form: Hebburn-on-Tyne
• St Helens
• Barrow-in-Furness
• Bou Craa via concept surface "mining town"
• Dudley
• Ciudad Guayana via concept surface "industrial city"
• Nhulunbuy via concept surface "mining town"
• Chiatura via concept surface "mining town"
• Yenakiieve via concept surface "industrial city"