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Another Chinatown was excavated during an urban renewal project to build the Fairmont Hotel and Silicon Valley Financial Center on Market and San Fernando Streets. [32] This Chinatown was also known as the "Plaza Street Chinatown", which grew rapidly from the 1860s to the 1870s and was home to "several hundred Chinese".
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Chinatown (Chinese: 唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
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Entrance to Victoria's Chinatown in British Columbia. Vancouver's Chinatown is the largest in Canada. [5] Dating back to the late 19th century, the main focus of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America.
Customers shop for fresh seafood at Central Fish Company in Chinatown, photographed Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 in downtown Fresno.
The New York metropolitan area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017, [10] including at least 12 Chinatowns – six [11] (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, [12] and East Harlem, Manhattan) in New York City proper, and one each in Nassau County, Long Island ...
Chinatown can refer to one of three locations near downtown Los Angeles. What is now known as Old Chinatown refers to the original location on Alameda and Macy (1880s–1933). Old Chinatown was displaced by the construction of Union Station, and two competing Chinatowns were built in the late 1930s north of Old Chinatown to replace it: China ...