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Meanings of slum area in English

Portuguese
favela
Catalan
barri baix

A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions.

favela
Usage of slum area in English
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This grimy part of town wasn't always a slum area, however.
Ghosts
2
The poorest live in a slum area in the City of the Dead.
Reuters
3
Could he be worrying, Doyle wondered, about the return trip through that slum area?
The Anubis Gates
4
The landslide, triggered by heavy rain, occurred at the city's Motijahrna hillside slum area.
Reuters
5
He visited a slum area adjacent to a bright commercial district, where gun battles raged.
Another life
6
Yes, the jump had worked, and then the city, and that slum area, and yes, Coleridge!
The Anubis Gates
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Stool samples were collected from healthy individuals without TB symptoms from a slum area of Dhaka.
Pubmed
8
Children play at a coal dump in a slum area of Karachi October 3, 2009.
Reuters
9
We have not benefited from the massive mad rises in house prices in the erstwhile slum area where we live.
The Guardian
10
But police had kept the demonstrations far from the stadium in a slum area dangerous to walk in with photo gear.
Reuters
11
The new assignment was to the roughest section in all Marsport-theslum area beyond the dome, out near the rocket field.
Police Your Planet
12
We're meeting in the kitchen of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters for Africa headquarters, adjacent to the Kariobangi slum area of Nairobi.
The Irish Times
13
He was a poor boy who lived in a slum area of the gold-mining Transvaal town where Denise's father was town clerk.
The new yorker
14
Sri Rosyati teaches at the Kartini Emergency school at a slum area in north Jakarta February 26, 2009.
Reuters
15
A SpiceJet passenger aircraft taxis on the runway at the airport next to a slum area in Mumbai December 19, 2014.
Reuters
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Children take a bath to cool off from the summer heat at a slum area in Tondo, Metro Manila, March 21, 2009.
Reuters
Translations for slum area
Catalan
barri baix