Chinatown 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.
New York's Manhattan Chinatown has the highest concentration of Chinese people outside of Asia.
Binondo, Manila, home to the world's oldest Chinatown
Chinatown, Melbourne is the longest continuous Chinese settlement in the Western World and the oldest Chinatown in the Southern Hemisphere.
Manhattan's Chinatown, the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere and one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the surrounding New York metropolitan area
In sociology, an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity. The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a workspace with a high concentration of ethnic firms. Their success and growth depends on self-sufficiency, and is coupled with economic prosperity.
Binondo, Manila, the world’s oldest Chinatown, is an example of an ethnic enclave.
India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey, one of 24 Indian ethnic enclaves in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
