List of Chinatowns

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This is a list of Chinatowns worldwide.

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 India 8 Israel 9 Indonesia 10 Japan 11 Malaysia 12 Mexico 13 Myanmar (Burma) 14 Nauru 15 Netherlands 16 Panama 17 Peru 18 Philippines 19 Portugal 20 Puerto Rico 21 Serbia 22 Singapore 23 South Africa 24 Thailand 25 United Arab Emirates 26 United Kingdom 26.1 England 26.2 Northern Ireland 26.3 Scotland 27 United States 28 Venezuela 29 Vietnam 30 See also 31 References

Argentina

• Buenos Aires (See Belgrano Chinatown)

Australia

New South Wales

• Emmaville - historic tin mining community
• Gulgong - historic
• Lambing Flat (Young) - historic
• Sydney (See Chinatown, Sydney)
• Tambaroora - historic
• Tingha - historic tin mining community

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

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

South Australia

• Adelaide (see Chinatown, Adelaide)

Victoria

• Ballarat - historic
• Beechworth - historic
• Bendigo - historic
• Melbourne (see Chinatown, Melbourne)

Western Australia

• Perth (see Chinatown, Perth)

Belgium

• Antwerp - Van Wesenbekestraat
• Brussels - rue Saint Géry

Canada

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 the West Edmonton Mall.
• Lethbridge - 3rd Street and 2nd Avenue (Chinatown, Lethbridge)

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

Manitoba

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

Ontario

• Ottawa - Somerset Street
• Toronto – Spadina Avenue, between College Street and Queen Street (see Chinatown, Toronto)

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

Saskatchewan

• Saskatoon - originally on 19th Street and re-located to Idylwyld Drive
• Regina
• Moose Jaw (historic)

Cuba

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

France

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

India

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

Israel

• Tel Aviv^{[citation needed]}

Indonesia

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

Japan

• Yokohama (See Yokohama Chinatown)
• Kobe (See Kobe Chinatown)
• Nagasaki

Malaysia

• Kuala Lumpur - Jalan Petaling / Petaling Street (see Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur)
• George Town,Penang-A old town full with oversea's Chinese.

(note this list is not complete)

Mexico

• Mexicali (Chinesca)
• Mexico City

Myanmar (Burma)

• Yangon (Rangoon)

Nauru

• Aiwo District

Netherlands

• Amsterdam
• Rotterdam
• The Hague

Panama

• Panama City

Peru

• Lima

Philippines

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

Portugal

• Varziela Chinatown in Vila do Conde - Portuguese Chinatown.^[1]

Entroncamento City of Chinese

Puerto Rico

• San Juan

Serbia

• Belgrade - Blok 70 is known as "the Chinese quarter"

Singapore

• Singapore (see Chinatown, Singapore)

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.

Thailand

• Bangkok (See Yaowarat Road)
• Santikhiri
• Phuket

United Arab Emirates

• Dubai

United Kingdom

England

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

Northern Ireland

• Belfast - Donegall Pass

Scotland

• Edinburgh
• Glasgow

United States

Venezuela

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

Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh City (see Cholon)

See also

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

References

• Paris Chinatown France

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