It includes the parent city with metropolitan older Chinatown and newer satellite "Chinatowns" in the suburban communities. It includes some Chinatowns in rural towns.
- Old main Chinatown in the anchor city - street or location
- --- New satellite "Chinatown" in an inner district of a city
Outer suburbs are indicated.
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 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 CD s) 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 ethic Chinese immigrants, principally from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and from various countries.
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- Brossard - boulevard Taschereau (Montreal suburb)
- Montreal - boulevard Saint-Laurent
- Johannesburg
- --- Cyrildene
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- Alhambra - Valley Boulevard (from Fremont Avenue to New Avenue) (Los Angeles suburb)
- Arcadia (Los Angeles suburb)
- Artesia (Los Angeles suburb)
- Cupertino - North Wolfe Road (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Fremont (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Hanford
- Irvine - Culver Drive (Orange County)
- Isleton
- Locke - rural town including Locke Historic District - National Register Of Historic Places
- Los Angeles - Broadway Avenue, Spring Street. (See Chinatown, Los Angeles .)
- Milpitas - Barber Lane (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Monterey Park - Atlantic Boulevard, Garfield Avenue, Garvey Avenue (Los Angeles suburb)
- Richmond (San Francisco Bay Area)
- Rowland Heights - Colima Road, Nogales Avenue
- San Gabriel and Rosemead - Valley Boulevard (from New Avenue to Rosemead Boulevard)
- Oakland - Broadway, 7th Street, Harrison Avenue, 10th Street (See Chinatown, Oakland .)
- Riverside - Brockton and Tequesquite (historic site - National Register Of Historic Places )
- Sacramento - 3rd, 5th, J, and I Streets
- 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 .)
- San Jose
- Denver - old Chinatown in Hop Alley.
- Miami - NE 167th Street and 163rd Street, between NE 6th Avenue and NE 19th Avenue
- Tampa - Waters and Armenia Avenues
- Doraville - mixed Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese strip malls on Buford Highway (Doraville is an Atlanta suburb - there is no "Chinatown" in the city of Atlanta)
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- 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.
- 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
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There is also a Chinatown in nearby Edison, New Jersey
- Charlotte - Asian Corner Mall on North Tryon Street and Sugar Creek Road
- --- Central Avenue (near Briar Creek Rd.) has second largest concentration of Chinese stores
- Cleveland - around Payne Avenue and E. 30th Street
- Oklahoma City - along Classen Blvd from N. 22nd Street to N. West 30th.
- --- New developments (mostly strip malls) in North West and South West OKC
- 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
- --- Most new Chinese stores are in Pittsburgh's "Strip District" on Penn Avenue and 18th Street
- Harrisburg - Cameron Street
- Memphis - Summer Avenue (east) near I-240
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