Editing Panelák (section)

==Other countries==
{{further|Urban planning in communist countries}}

[[File:Bloque_de_la_era_comunista,_arquitectura_social,_Sofia,_Bulgaria,_2011.JPG|thumb|Communist-era apartment buildings in [[Sofia]], [[Bulgaria]].]]

Buildings similar to paneláks were also built in other communist countries, and they are a common feature of [[cityscape]]s across [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]], and to some degree [[Northern Europe]].

{{Citation needed span|text=One of the most drastic reconstruction policies of the [[Eastern Bloc]] was the [[Systematization (Romania)|systematization programme]] that took place in the 1970s and 1980s under [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] in [[Romania]]. In 1971, Ceaușescu visited [[North Korea]] and was impressed by the [[Juche]] [[ideology]]. He enacted a mass programme of demolition and reconstruction of existing villages, towns, and cities, in whole or in part, in order to build blocks of flats ({{Lang|ro|blocuri}}).|date=October 2020}}

In [[Bulgaria]], buildings similar to paneláks are colloquially known as {{Lang|bg|panelki}}, and are the predominant type of en masse housing throughout the country.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} In [[Hungary]], similar buildings are called {{Lang|hu|[[panelház]]}}.<ref name=":0" /> In [[Poland]], they are called {{Lang|pl|bloki}} (blocks),{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} or {{Lang|pl|wielka płyta}} (the great panel).<ref name=":0" /> In [[Germany]], they are known as {{Lang|de|[[Plattenbau]]}}.<ref name=":0" /> Most buildings in Soviet-era [[microdistrict]]s are panel buildings.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}

In the EU, among former communist countries, a majority of the population lives in flats in [[Latvia]] (65.1%), [[Estonia]] (63.8%), [[Lithuania]] (58.4%), Czech Republic (52.8%) and Slovakia (50.3%) ({{As of|2014|lc=y}}, data from [[Eurostat]]).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Housing statistics - Source data for tables and figures |url=http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Housing_statistics#Source_data_for_tables_and_figures |access-date=2016-09-02 |website=ec.europa.eu |publisher=[[Eurostat]]}}</ref> However, not all flat dwellers in Eastern Europe live in Communist era blocks of flats; many live in buildings constructed after the fall of communism, and some in buildings surviving from the era before communism.

In the [[United States]], some housing estates have buildings that are similar to paneláks or are built from the same or similar material.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}