A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
A barangay.
An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people.
A situation of great desperation or misfortune.