Chinatown
The term Chinatown (唐人街 in Chinese) or Chinatown (in English) is generally used to describe an urban area where a large population of Chinese origin resides within a non-Chinese society, although it has also been used to describe areas where large numbers of residents of Asian origin live, such as Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean. Chinatowns are common in Southeast Asia and North America, although they are becoming more common every day in Europe and Latin America as well.
Chinatowns outside Asia
Outside the People's Republic of China, it is in the city of San Francisco (United States) where there is the largest concentration of Chinese or their descendants in the world.
The second place in numerical importance is the Chinatown of Lima (Peru), which is located next to the Historic Center of Lima. On the coast of Peru, and especially in Lima, there are more than one million three hundred thousand Chinese or descendants of Chinese. They are mainly dedicated to retail trade and the management of chifa food restaurants, called chifas, and they are part of Peruvian gastronomy. Very well known is also the Chinatown of Manhattan, in New York (United States).
In some cities in Spain, the term usually denotes an area, neighborhood or district where prostitution or other businesses related to the sex industry are concentrated, which in other parts of the world is known as the Red Light District or Red Zone. Some examples of this are the Barrio Chino in Salamanca and the Barrio Chino in Barcelona, although there was a small Chinese community in Barcelona in the 1930s.
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Entrance to the Chinese Quarter of Mexico City.
The Chinese Quarter of Lima, Peru.
Barrio Chino (Buenos Aires), Argentina.
Statues in the Chinese neighborhood of Dallas.
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