List of Chinatowns

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This is a list of Chinatowns (enclaves containing a large population of Chinese people within a non-Chinese society) in select 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 Israel 11 Indonesia 12 Italy 13 Japan 14 Malaysia 15 Mexico 16 Myanmar (Burma) 17 Nauru 18 The Netherlands 19 New Zealand 20 Panama 21 Peru 22 Philippines 23 Portugal 24 Puerto Rico 25 Russia 26 Serbia 27 Singapore 28 South Africa 29 Thailand 30 United Arab Emirates 31 United Kingdom 31.1 England 31.2 Northern Ireland 31.3 Scotland 32 United States 33 Venezuela 34 Vietnam 35 See also 36 References

[edit] Argentina

• Buenos Aires (See Belgrano Chinatown)

[edit] Australia

[edit] New South Wales

• Emmaville - historic tin mining community
• Gulgong - historic
• Lambing Flat (Young) - historic
• Sydney (See Chinatown, Sydney)
  • Ashfield (also known as Little Shanghai) - Liverpool Road (mostly Mainland Chinese; Shanghainese. It also has the largest proportion of Mandarin Speaking Chinese in Sydney.)
  • Auburn - (Mainland Chinese; mostly Cantonese; also contains a large Muslim Community, with plenty of Lebanese)
  • Beverly Hills - King Georges Road (Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese)
  • Burwood - Burwood Road (Mainland Chinese; Shanghainese - High proportion of Mandarin speakers.)
  • Cabramatta - (Vietnamese Chinese)
  • Campsie - (Mainland Chinese; Shanghainese, Guangdong Chinese - High proportion of Mandarin speakers.)
  • Carlingford - Carlingford Village (Mainland Chinese; Guangdong Chinese)
  • Chatswood - Victoria Avenue (Hong Kong, Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese)
  • Eastwood - Rowe Street (Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese, Guangdong Chinese; Eastwood has one of the most diverse Chinese diaspora in Sydney)
  • Epping - (Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese, although not a hub for Chinese immigration.)
  • Fairfield - (Vietnamese Chinese)
  • Hurstville - (Mainland Chinese; Guangdong Chinese, huge proportion of Mandarin speaking Chinese; largest percentage of Chinese residents in Australia.)
  • Parramatta - Church Street (Mainlander Chinese)
• Tambaroora - historic
• Tingha - historic tin mining community

[edit] Northern Territory

• Brocks Creek
• Darwin - defunct, was on Cavenagh Street. A new modern Chinatown to be built in Darwin CBD.
• Pine Creek - historic goldfield Chinatown

[edit] Queensland

• Atherton - historic, the Hou Waing Temple is preserved
• Brisbane (see Chinatown, Brisbane)
  • Sunnybank - Mains Road; Taiwanese Chinese
• Cooktown - historical Chinatown, was dubbed Little Canton during the 1800s

[edit] South Australia

• Adelaide (see Chinatown, Adelaide)

[edit] Victoria

• Ballarat - historic
• Beechworth - historic
• Bendigo - historic
• Melbourne (see Chinatown, Melbourne)
  • Box Hill - Carrington Road (Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese community)
  • Doncaster - Hong Kong and Taiwanese community
  • Footscray - Nicholson Street (predominantly Vietnamese Chinese)
  • Richmond - Victoria Street (Also known as Little Saigon).
  • Springvale - Springvale Road
  • St. Albans - St. Albans Road, Alfreida Street & Main Road East
  • Glen Waverley - Kingsway (Chinese community)
  • Sunshine - Eastern Asian community
  • Noble Park - Vietnamese Community
  • Abbotsford - (Chinese and Vietnamese) Large Vietnamese Community
  • Brunswick - Chinese and Vietnamese Presence

[edit] Western Australia

• Broome
• 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. Edmonton also has a Chinese market including a gate and other Chinese architecture in its West Edmonton Mall.
• 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
• Greater Vancouver
  • New Westminster's Chinatown - 8th & Columbia, destroyed in the city's Great Fire, 1898, and not rebuilt or resettled.
  • New Westminster Museum and Archives Chinatown Project
  • Richmond - No. 3 Road, a collection of modern Hong Kong immigrant-oriented shopping centres built in the 1980s and 1990s (Golden Village). Not a historical Chinatown, and explicitly not named as a Chinatown by Richmond city council or referred to as Chinatown by local residents.
  • Vancouver - Historic Chinatown on Pender Street and Main Street (Chinatown, Vancouver)

• Historical Chinatowns elsewhere in BC.
  • 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), founded as a protected camp for Chinese strike-breakers by the Dunsmuir coal empire.
  • Wellington's Chinatown - Dunsmuir's first mines in the town of Wellington employed 100s of Chinese workers in the 1870s-1890s. The old China town was located at Jingle Pot road and Old Slope road in the Wellington neighbourhood of Nanaimo, and has reverted to forest with numurous pot-holes where treasure seekers have excavated for Chinese artifacts.

• • 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 – Spadina Avenue, between College Street and Queen Street (see Chinatown, Toronto)
  • Agincourt – several commercial plazas along main thoroughfares
  • Riverdale – Gerrard Street and Broadview Avenue, known as "East Chinatown"
• Markham – Steeles Avenue between Esna Park Drive and McCowan Road, centred on Market Village Mall, Pacific Mall and Splendid China Tower; clusters along Highway 7
• Mississauga – Dundas Street and Tomken Road
• Richmond Hill – along Highway 7
• Windsor - Wyandotte Street West

[edit] Quebec

• Montreal
  Main article: Chinatown, Montreal
  - Boulevard Saint-Laurent between Viger and René-Lévesque, and La Gauchetière between Saint-Dominique and the Palais des Congrès
  • Brossard - boulevard Taschereau

[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
• Athens

[edit] Hungary

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

[edit] India

• Kolkata (Calcutta) (Source: http://www.kolkataChinaTown.com)

[edit] Israel

• Tel Aviv^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Indonesia

• Jakarta - Jalan Gajah Mada
• Medan
• Semarang
• Singkawang
• Pontianak
• Surabaya - Jalan Kembang Jepun

[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 (See Kobe Chinatown)
• Nagasaki

[edit] Malaysia

• Kuala Lumpur - Jalan Petaling / Petaling Street (see Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur)
• George Town,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 Mt Albert, Northcote, Upper Queen Street
• Wellington

[edit] Panama

• Panama City

[edit] Peru

• Lima

[edit] Philippines

• Manila - Ongpin Street, see Binondo
  • Manila Bay - Neo Chinatown
• Davao City - Uyanguren Street, includes a night market patterrned after those in Hong Kong

[edit] Portugal

• Varziela Chinatown in Vila do Conde - Portuguese Chinatown.^[1]
• Entroncamento City of Chinese

[edit] Puerto Rico

• San Juan

[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.

• Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria
  • An expanding Chinese settlement is situated here.

[edit] Thailand

• Bangkok (See Yaowarat Road)
• Santikhiri
• Phuket

[edit] United Arab Emirates

• Dubai

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] England

• Birmingham (See Chinatown, Birmingham)
• Liverpool
• London (See Chinatown, London)
  • Colindale - Oriental City complex
  • Croydon - China Town Mall
• Manchester (See Chinatown, Manchester)
• Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sheffield

[edit] Northern Ireland

• Belfast - Donegall Pass

[edit] Scotland

• Edinburgh
• Glasgow

[edit] United States

[edit] Venezuela

• Caracas has a Chinatown. It's the only Chinatown in the country despite the strong amount of Chinese population.

[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

[edit] References

• Paris Chinatown France

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