List of Chinatowns

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This is a list of Chinatowns (urban regions containing a large population of Chinese people within a non-Chinese society) in select countries. It includes the parent city with metropolitan older Chinatown and newer satellite "Chinatowns" in the suburban communities. It includes some Chinatowns in rural towns.

Key:

• Old main Chinatown in the anchor city - street or location
  • New satellite "Chinatown" in an inner district of a city

Outer suburbs are indicated.

General criteria for Chinatowns A Chinatown should share many of these characteristics. More modern and newer Chinese commercial areas may be nebulous.

• A currently or historically Chinese-speaking community outside of Mainland China PRC, Taiwan ROC, Hong Kong SAR, and Macao SAR and maintain relative ties to these regions.
• Older Chinatowns, officially recognized as Chinatown by local governments, historical societies, and so on.
• In older Chinatowns, Chinese-style arches serving as entrance markers.
• Center of community trade. A self-sustaining and concentrated community with goods and services and serving as a major cultural and commercial hub for foreign-born and native-born overseas Chinese.
• Chinese-language newspaper presses.
• A dense concentration of competitive immigrant-owned shops offering imported authentic Chinese and general Asian goods (for example, ginseng and herbs, Video CDs) not found in the larger society and geared towards ethnic Chinese population.
• Family and regional associations and community organizations
• Observation of Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year, with traditional Chinese dragon and lion dances
• In Western countries, populated by ethnic Chinese immigrants, principally from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and from various countries.

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Australia 2.1 New South Wales 2.2 Northern Territory 2.3 Queensland 2.4 South Australia 2.5 Victoria 2.6 Western Australia 3 Belgium 4 Canada 4.1 Alberta 4.2 British Columbia 4.3 Manitoba 4.4 Ontario 4.5 Quebec 4.6 Saskatchewan 5 Cuba 6 France 7 Greece 8 Hungary 9 India 10 Ireland 11 Israel 12 Indonesia 13 Italy 14 Japan 15 Malaysia 16 Mexico 17 Myanmar (Burma) 18 Nauru 19 The Netherlands 20 New Zealand 21 Peru 22 Philippines 23 Portugal 24 Russia 25 Serbia 26 Singapore 27 South Africa 28 Thailand 29 United Arab Emirates 30 United Kingdom 30.1 England 31 United States 31.1 California 31.2 Colorado 31.3 District of Columbia 31.4 Florida 31.5 Georgia 31.6 Hawaii 31.7 Illinois 31.8 Maryland 31.9 Massachusetts 31.10 Michigan 31.11 Missouri 31.12 Montana 31.13 Nevada 31.14 New Jersey 31.15 New York 31.16 North Carolina 31.17 Ohio 31.18 Oklahoma 31.19 Oregon 31.20 Pennsylvania 31.21 South Dakota 31.22 Tennessee 31.23 Texas 31.24 Utah 31.25 Virginia 31.26 Washington 32 Vietnam 33 See also

[edit] Argentina

• Buenos Aires (See Belgrano neighborhood)

[edit] Australia

[edit] New South Wales

• Sydney (See Chinatown, Sydney)
  • Ashfield - Liverpool Road
  • Burwood
  • Cabramatta
  • Chatswood
  • Eastwood
  • Fairfield
  • Hurstville
  • Parramatta - Church Street

[edit] Northern Territory

• Darwin (See Chinatowns in Oceania)

[edit] Queensland

• Brisbane (see Chinatown, Brisbane)
  • Fortitude Valley
• Cooktown - historical Chinatown, was dubbed Little Canton during the 1800s

[edit] South Australia

• Adelaide (see Chinatown, Adelaide)

[edit] Victoria

• Melbourne (see Chinatown, Melbourne)
  • Box Hill
  • Doncaster

[edit] Western Australia

• Perth (see Chinatown, Perth)

[edit] Belgium

• Antwerp - Van Wesenbekestraat
• Brussels - rue Saint Géry

[edit] Canada

[edit] Alberta

• Calgary - Downtown East Village (Chinatown, Calgary)
  • Centre Street N, south of 16th Avenue N, and East of Centre Street north at 2nd and 3rd avenues. Originally a handful of Chinese businesses, now an ethnic theme park-cum-mall
• Edmonton - 95th Street between 102nd and Jasper Avenues; old Chinatown was located at 97th Street, between 105th and 108th Avenues and moved following re-development of the Edmonton LRT line

• Lethbridge - 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue (Chinatown, Lethbridge)

[edit] British Columbia

• Nanaimo - Machleary Street, Pine Street (remnants burned to ground in 1960s)
• Victoria - Fisgard Street, Oldest in Canada (Chinatown, Victoria, British Columbia)
• New Westminster's Chinatown
• Vancouver
  • Pender Street and Main Street (Chinatown, Vancouver)
• Richmond - No. 3 Road (Golden Village) (modern era only)
  • Steveston - Moncton and Bayview Streets, burned down in 1918 Steveston fire
  • South Vancouver (Victoria/Fraserview) - 41st Ave. and Victoria Dr.
    • New Westminster Museum and Archives Chinatown Project
• Lillooet's Chinatown - the BC Interior's first Chinatown
• Barkerville's Chinatown - although ostensibly about Barkerville per se, content here is all Chinese-related.
• Map of Barkerville, explaining location and circumstances of Chinatown
• Yale's Chinatown - the first Chinatown on the BC Mainland
• Yale's On Lee House - a surviving structure of Yale's Chinatown
• Cumberland's Chinatown - once the second-largest on the West Coast of North America (c.1910)
• Cumberland's Chinese Strikebreakers, from Digital Collections "King Coal" series
• Picture of Cumberland's Chinatown, 1910
• Chinatown at Keefer's, Fraser Canyon CPR Construction 1880s

[edit] Manitoba

• Chinatown, Winnipeg - King Street between James and Higgins Avenues

[edit] Ontario

• Ottawa - Somerset Street

• Toronto (see Chinatown, Toronto) Originally at Dundas and Elizabeth streets before the construction of the current city hall in the 1960s, now localized along Spadina Avenue between College and Queen Streets
  • Agincourt (Toronto, formerly Scarborough) - Various stretches of commercial plazas on several main thoroughfares, no clear boundaries shared with the Chinatown on Steeles Avenue to the north (see below)
  • "East Chinatown" - Gerrard Street East/between Broadview Avenue and Carlaw Avenue.
  • "Highway 7" - Various commercial plazas along Highway 7 between Bayview and Warden Avenues in Richmond Hill and Markham
  • Mississauga - Dundas Street and Tomken. This location is the only one in the Greater Toronto Area clearly marked with a Paifang
  • "Steeles Avenue" (Markham) - Between Esna Park Drive and McCowan Road, is generally accepted to be centered at Kennedy and Steeles Avenue by Market Village and Pacific Mall
  • "Victoria Park Avenue" (Toronto, formerly North York and Scarborough) - Between McNicoll and Steeles Avenues, arguably its own entity or an extension of the Agincourt Chinatown or the one on Steeles Avenue

• Windsor - Wyandotte Street West

[edit] Quebec

• Brossard - boulevard Taschereau (Montreal suburb)
• Montreal

Main article: Chinatown, Montreal

- Boulevard Saint-Laurent between Viger and René-Lévesque, and La Gauchetière between Saint-Dominique and the Palais des Congrès

[edit] Saskatchewan

• Saskatoon - originally on 19th Street and re-located to Idylwyld Drive
• Regina

[edit] Cuba

• Havana, Cuba - Barrio Chino, includes many Chinese restaurants and Cuban-Chinese friendship societies

[edit] France

• Paris - see 13th arrondissement
  • Belleville - rue Rebelvalle

[edit] Greece

• Thessaloniki

[edit] Hungary

• Budapest - (Source: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1718/jjchinatown.html)

[edit] India

• Kolkata (Calcutta)

[edit] Ireland

• Dublin (Source: http://worldwide.chinatownonline.org/europe/)

[edit] Israel

• Tel Aviv

[edit] Indonesia

• Medan
• Semarang
• Singkawang
• Pontianak

[edit] Italy

• Milan (Source: http://www.chinatownitalia.it/inglese/home.php)
• Florence, Italy (Source: http://www.chinatownitalia.it/inglese/citta.php?citta=Florence)
• Bologna, Italy (Source: http://www.chinatownitalia.it/inglese/citta.php?citta=Bologna)

[edit] Japan

• Yokohama (See Yokohama Chinatown)
• Kobe
• Nagasaki

[edit] Malaysia

• Kuala Lumpur (see Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur)
• Georgetown,Penang-A old town full with oversea's chinese.

[edit] Mexico

• Mexicali
• Mexico City

[edit] Myanmar (Burma)

• Yangon (Rangoon)

[edit] Nauru

• Aiwo

[edit] The Netherlands

• Amsterdam
• Rotterdam
• The Hague

[edit] New Zealand

• Auckland
• Wellington

[edit] Peru

• Lima

[edit] Philippines

• Manila - Ongpine Street, see Binondo
  • Manila Bay - Neo Chinatown

[edit] Portugal

• Varziela Chinatown in Vila do Conde - Portugal's only Chinatown.^[1]

[edit] Russia

• St. Petersburg
• Ussuriysk
• Yekaterinburg

[edit] Serbia

• Belgrade

[edit] Singapore

• Singapore (see Chinatown, Singapore)

[edit] South Africa

• Johannesburg
  • Derrick Street, Cyrildene and also in and around Bruma. There are approximately 30 restaurants offering food from various areas in China and Taiwan. There are also lots of shops/supermarkets and street vendors selling fresh vegetables, seafood and street food.
  • Commissioner Street, CBD. This was Johannesburg's original Chinatown until it moved to Cyrildene in the 1990s. There are a few restaurants and a supermarket still here.

[edit] Thailand

• Yaowarat, Samphanthawong, Bangkok (See Yaowarat Road)

[edit] United Arab Emirates

• Dubai

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] England

• Birmingham (See Chinatown, Birmingham)
• Liverpool
• London (See Chinatown, London)
• Manchester
• Newcastle upon Tyne

[edit] United States

[edit] California

• Truckee - defunct, only one building remains (Source: http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20041128/LIFE/111280007)
• Fresno - defunct, but there are efforts to revitalize it (Source: http://www.fresno-chinatown.org/index.html)
• Eureka - destroyed in 1886
• Chico - existed around 1865 in the area of Flume Street between East Fifth and East Sixth, several blocks over and had a population of more than 500 Chinese. (Source: http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=oid%3A6795)
• Hanford
• Irvine - Culver Drive
• Los Angeles - Broadway Avenue, Spring Street. (See Chinatown, Los Angeles.)
  • Alhambra - Valley Boulevard (from Fremont Avenue to New Avenue)
  • Arcadia
  • Artesia
  • Diamond Bar
  • Hacienda Heights
  • Marysville
  • Monterey Park - Atlantic Boulevard, Garfield Avenue, Garvey Avenue
  • Rowland Heights - Colima Road, Nogales Avenue
  • San Gabriel and Rosemead - Valley Boulevard (from New Avenue to Rosemead Boulevard)
  • San Marino
  • Temple City
  • Walnut
• Nevada City - defunct, but a cemetery remains
• Oakland - Broadway, 7th Street, Harrison Avenue, 10th Street (See Chinatown, Oakland.)
  • Fremont
• Riverside - Brockton and Tequesquite (historic site - National Register of Historic Places)
• Sacramento - 3rd, 5th, J, and I Streets
  • Isleton
  • Locke - rural town including Locke Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
• San Diego - historic Market and K Streets, 2nd and 5th Avenues
  • Clairemont Mesa - new "Chinatown" on Convoy Street
• San Francisco - Jackson Street, Stockton Avenue. (See Chinatown, San Francisco.)
  • Richmond District
  • Sunset District
• San Jose
  • Cupertino - North Wolfe Road
  • Milpitas - Barber Lane

[edit] Colorado

• Denver - old Chinatown in Hop Alley.

[edit] District of Columbia

• Washington, D.C. - H Street, with "satellites" in Rockville, Maryland and Alexandria, Virginia. (See Chinatown, Washington, D.C..)

[edit] Florida

• Miami - NE 167th Street and 163rd Street, between NE 6th Avenue and NE 19th Avenue
• Tampa - Waters and Armenia Avenues

[edit] Georgia

• Doraville & Duluth (Suburbs of Atlanta)- mixed Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese areas on Buford Highway (There is no "Chinatown" in the city of Atlanta)

[edit] Hawaii

• Honolulu, Honolulu

[edit] Illinois

• Chicago - Along Wentworth at Cermak. (See Chinatown, Chicago, Illinois.)
  • New Chinatown, Chicago

[edit] Maryland

• Baltimore - Park Avenue
• Rockville - A "satellite" of the Washington, DC Chinatown.

[edit] Massachusetts

• Boston - Kneeland Street Chinatown (Boston)
  • Quincy, Massachusetts - alternative to original Chinatown on Hancock Street

[edit] Michigan

• Detroit - First Chinatown became extinct since the 1950s. Relocated Chinatown in the 1960s, now defunct.
• Madison Heights - third new "Chinatown" in the Detroit area within strip malls on John R. Road.

In addition, there is a larger Chinatown in nearby Windsor, Ontario, Canada across the Detroit/Windsor Bridge on Wyandotte Street West between the University of Windsor and Downtown.

[edit] Missouri

• St. Louis - original Chinatown defunct in early 1960s; second relocated Chinatown defunct since late 1970s
• University City - third new St. Louis area "Chinatown" on Olive Boulevard

[edit] Montana

• Butte - has a defunct one (Source: http://www.maiwah.org/)

[edit] Nevada

• Las Vegas - Spring Mountain Road (See Chinatown, Las Vegas.)

[edit] New Jersey

• Edison
• Newark had a Chinatown which is now defunct (Source: http://www.newarkchinatown.org/)
• Pleasantville - new one started on Black Horse Pike, near Atlantic City

[edit] New York

• New York City - Canal Street, see Chinatown, Manhattan
  • Sunset Park, Brooklyn - 8th Avenue
  • Homecrest, Brooklyn - Avenue U
  • Elmhurst, Queens
  • Flushing, Queens - Roosevelt Avenue

There is also a Chinatown in nearby Edison, New Jersey

[edit] North Carolina

• Charlotte - Central Avenue (near Briar Creek Rd.) is the original "Chinatown" consisting of "Saigon Square" and 2 other Chinese shopping plazas, which consists of "Dim Sum Restaurant" (which serves New York styled dim sum), "Eang Hong Supermarket", "Van Loi" (which serves cha shao), and at least 12 other stores. Saigon Square has various Vietnamese stores including Pho Hoa (Vietnamese noodles).
  • Asian Corner Mall on North Tryon Street and Sugar Creek Road, developed from the defunct Tryon Mall in 1999, with "Dragon Court Restaurant", "Hong Kong BBQ", "International Supermarket", and "New Century Market" and several other Chinese/Vietnamese stores.

[edit] Ohio

• Cleveland - around Payne Avenue and E. 30th Street
• Cincinnati - defunct (Source: http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/12/06/loc_sept_11_evokes.html)

[edit] Oklahoma

• Oklahoma City
  • Asia District - along Classen Blvd from N. 22nd Street to N. West 36th.
  • New developments (mostly strip malls) in North West and South West quadrants.

[edit] Oregon

• Chinatown, Portland
  • 82nd Avenue
• Jacksonville - has a defunct Chinatown (oldest in Oregon)

[edit] Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia - Cherry Street area (See Chinatown, Philadelphia)
  • Northeast Philadelphia - Adams Avenue and Roosevelt Blvd. (Hong Kong Supermarket area)
  • South Philadelphia - Washington Avenue and 10th Street (big Chinese/Vietnamese shopping center near Little Italy)

• Pittsburgh -
  • Defunct old Chinatown around Blvd of the Allies and Grant Street (two Chinese restaurants still exist from the original Chinatown)
    • The original tenants in the old original Pittsburgh Chinatown included, all of which are gone today:
      • Wing Hong Chinese Co., 519 Second Ave.
      • Hop Ching Wing, at 527 Second Ave
      • Quong Yuen Lee Co., 505 Second Ave
      • Quong Chong Shing, 511 Second Ave.
      • Sun Wing Sing Co, 507 Second Ave.
      • Quong Wah Hai Co., 314 Second Ave.
      • Lee Jan Fueng, 521 Second Ave.
      • (Source: http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/lifestyle/20031209chinatown1209p1.asp)

• • Most new Chinese stores are in Pittsburgh's "Strip District" on Penn Avenue and 18th Street
• Harrisburg - Cameron Street

[edit] South Dakota

• Deadwood - defunct (Source: http://www.sdsmt.edu/wwwsarc/projects/deadwood/index.html)

[edit] Tennessee

• Memphis - Summer Avenue (east) near I-240

[edit] Texas

• Houston - Chartres Street in Downtown (See Chinatown, Houston)
  • Bellaire (city of Houston) - Bellaire Boulevard
• Dallas - no actual Chinatown in existence
  • Plano
  • Richardson
• Austin - Lamar Boulevard, (new as of 2006) (Source: http://www.chinatownaustin.com/)

[edit] Utah

• Salt Lake City, Utah - defunct one on Plum Valley

[edit] Virginia

• Alexandria, Virginia - A "satellite" of the Washington, DC Chinatown.

[edit] Washington

• Kent
• Seattle (See International District, Seattle, Washington.)

[edit] Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh City (see Cholon)

[edit] See also

• Chinatowns
• List of named ethnic enclaves in North American cities
• Europe Street, a street in China dedicated to the European culture