Outside The United States
The French city of Le Creusot, the German city of Ludwigshafen and the Japanese City of Kitakyushu are said to be company-towns. In Spain the boom of industrial factories propelled "colonias" like Sedó or Guell.
Widzew, a suburb of Lodz in Poland, had been a textile Company Town previous to the Second World War.
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