Chinatown, Vancouver
Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south, the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast, and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the southeast.
Chinatown | |
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Neighbourhood | |
Millennium Gate on Pender Street in Chinatown | |
| Coordinates: 49°16′48″N 123°5′58″W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | British Columbia |
| City | Vancouver |
| Time zone | UTC−8 (Pacific) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
| Area Codes | 604, 778, 236 |
| Chinatown, Vancouver | |||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 溫哥華唐人街 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 温哥华唐人街 | ||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 溫哥華華埠 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 温哥华华埠 | ||||||||||||||
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| Designations | |
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National Historic Site of Canada | |
| Official name | Vancouver's Chinatown National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 2011 |
Due to the large ethnic Chinese presence in Vancouver—especially represented by mostly Cantonese-speaking multi-generation Chinese Canadians and first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong—the city has been referred to as "Hongcouver". However, most immigration in recent years has been Mandarin-speaking residents from Mainland China. Chinatown remains a popular tourist attraction and is one of the largest historic Chinatowns in North America, but it experienced recent decline as newer members of Vancouver's Chinese community dispersed to other parts of the metropolitan area.