Hongkou District

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Hongkou District (simplified Chinese: 虹口区; traditional Chinese: 虹口區; pinyin: Hóngkǒu Qū) 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 Lu Xun 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 to the West as the Shanghai ghetto.

Today Hongkou is home to the Shanghai International Studies University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Now HongKou District is renowned for winning the cleanest district in Shanghai.

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