🏭 Company Towns of the World

These are notable company towns — settlements built or dominated by a single employer or industry, from the model factory villages and coal-camp scrip towns of the industrial age to modern resource and plantation towns, where the works, the shops and often the houses all belonged to one company. Each profile shows where the town stands, which country it is in, and a plain-English introduction from Wikipedia.

25 company towns from 9 countries are covered below, grouped by continent. Open any company town for its full profile.

Americas (7) Asia (1) Europe (16) Oceania (1)

Americas (7 company towns)

Asia (1 company towns)

Europe (16 company towns)

Oceania (1 company towns)

Coordinates are approximate locations. Descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached on our server. Data sourced from Wikidata. Related: Mountains · Lakes · Islands · World Heritage.