Portal:Oceania/Selected article/May, 2007

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A Chinatown is a section of an urban area associated with a large number of Chinese within a city outside the majority-Chinese countries of China, Taiwan, and Singapore. Chinatowns in Oceania exist throughout the region.

Chinatowns are most common in Australia due to its proximity to the Asian continent. The majority of ethnic Chinese immigrants to Australia are from Hong Kong. Chinese from various places of mainland China, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Southeast Asia—especially Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, and Indonesia—and Latin America also settled Australia. There are historic Chinatowns in most of the major Australian cities, a synthetic Chinatown in Darwin, and heritage sites in other areas.

In New Zealand, Auckland and Wellington had Chinatowns until the 1970s and Christchurch and Dunedin have growing Chinese communities. Papua New Guinea has several Chinatowns, and Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Guam, Nauru, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Northern Mariana Islands also have Chinatowns in their capital cities.