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Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
Boundary map as drawn by the Los Angeles Times on a CC-by-SA background. Note at bottom right of map on the L.A. Times website noted above says "CC-by-SA" (which gives permission to use the map).
Downtown Los Angeles: 789: Southern California Gas Company Complex: 800–820 S, Flower St. Downtown Los Angeles: 795: Santa Fe Inbound Freight House: 355 S. Santa Fe Downtown Los Angeles: 806: Kerckoff Building and Annex: 558–564 S. Main St. Downtown Los Angeles: 825: Chinatown West Gate: 954 N. Hill St. Chinatown
The Civic Center is located in the northern part of Downtown Los Angeles, bordering Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, and the Historic Core of the old Downtown. . Depending on various district definitions, either the Civic Center or Bunker Hill also contains the Music Center and adjacent Walt Disney Concert Hall; some maps, for example, place the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Civic ...
Old Chinatown, or original Chinatown, is a retronym that refers to the location of a former Chinese-American ethnic enclave enforced by legal segregation that existed near downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States from the 1860s until the 1930s.
The following data applies to Central Los Angeles within the boundaries set by Mapping L.A.: In the 2000 United States Census, Central Los Angeles had 836,638 residents in its 57.87 sq mi (149.9 km 2), including the uninhabited Griffith and Elysian parks, which amounted to 14,458 people per square mile.
Chung King Road, along with Chung King Court containing a water fountain in its center, is a pedestrian street complex in the northwest corner of Chinatown, Los Angeles, United States. This street is a part of "New Chinatown", built in the 1930s and 1940s, and was the location of mostly Chinese specialty shops, importers of Chinese art objects ...
Vietnamese language is prevalent in Chinatowns of Paris, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Montreal as ethnic Chinese from Vietnam have set up shop in them. In Japanese, the term "chūkagai" (中華街, literally "Chinese Street") is the translation used for Yokohama and Nagasaki Chinatown.