Started off originally removing all relationships attached to the areas, and I figured that modbot would eventually come along and clean things up.

Got a recent area request to delete these, so modbot didn't work for these. Opened edits to manually remove. Those edits were failed by modbot stating
"This entity cannot currently be deleted due to related data."

None of these areas have any attached links. Here's the list:
https://musicbrainz.org/area/670f9096-e153-44d4-ae9f-d03014418273
https://musicbrainz.org/area/31287eab-b587-43f2-bb3a-b8654c8fdb7c
https://musicbrainz.org/area/4512a46b-f986-400d-a863-a0239745410b
https://musicbrainz.org/area/01b961af-9925-4b82-85f1-24ff4dca4760
https://musicbrainz.org/area/655ba0c2-6ac7-462b-ac9a-b5ad2c9f129e
https://musicbrainz.org/area/95b19522-b589-494e-8435-09ec8b5d2645