The towns have dwindled because the countryside has been depopulated.
Cava is a "deserted repeat deserted island", which is to say it has been depopulated twice.
ADS This is a problem isn't it, anything in the public sector has been depopulated in the north and it's been very difficult for the authorities to get staff to go back.
A well-fed elite in the Capitol condemns the populations of 12 poverty-stricken districts to hard labour, while a 13th district has been depopulated as punishment for rebellion.
To resettle Yunnan, which had been depopulated by warfare, the governor brought in large numbers of Hui (Chinese Muslims) from northwestern China.
Murska Sobota's main street appeared to have been depopulated in a hurry; only the occasional empty bus drove by, its interior lights dimmed.
Whole cities and towns have been depopulated, starved, and tortured.
This reflects the fact that, by 1940, "Warlmanpa country had been depopulated".
The data centers offer jobs in places that have been depopulated in the last couple of decades. .
Following the departure of the Romans the area appears to have been depopulated until Anglo-Saxon colonisation in the 7th century AD.
