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Hongkou (Chinese: 虹口; pinyin: Hóngkǒu) is a northern district of Shanghai proper, People's Republic of China. It has a land area of 23.48 km² and population of 799,700 as of 2001.
It is the location of the Hongkou Park and the Lu Xun memorial, and was occupied by the Japanese during World War II, when 20,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe lived in a notoriously overcrowded square-mile section known as the Shanghai ghetto.
Shanghai district map highlighting Hongkou
View of Hongkou Qu from a building near the Lu Xun park
