--noun1.a section, as of a city or town, characterized by shanties and crudely built houses.
2.a whole town or city that is chiefly made up of shanty-like houses.
Shantytown - 2009 was released on: USA: May 2009
The name for a shantytown where the homeless lived is called Hooverville.
Shantytown - 1943 was released on: USA: 20 April 1943
Shantytown - 1943 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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Soweto is a large urban area in Johannesburg, South Africa, that started as a segregated township during the apartheid era. While parts of Soweto may have shanty towns, it is a diverse and vibrant community with a mix of formal and informal housing. It is inaccurate to classify Soweto solely as a shanty town.
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Most of the time in a shantytown it is very small and very overpopulated. The main thing that is needed would be employment, electricity and in some cases clean running water.