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Chinatown

The Chinatown, centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in , California, is the oldest Chinatown in and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside .
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  • Type: Quarter with 9,650 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Chinatown San Francisco”, “Chinatown SF”, “Chinatown, San Francisco”, and “Chinatown, SF”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Transamerica Pyramid and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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The is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline.

Museum
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The is a modern and contemporary art and nonprofit organization located in , . SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.

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is an east–west street in , California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from east to The Embarcadero.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chinatown-North Beach and Civic Center-Tenderloin.

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in combines two adjoining neighbors, both of which are among the city's most popular immigrant neighborhoods. Culturally and aesthetically, they could not be more different yet their streets mesh seamlessly together.

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As the name implies, the Civic Center is the primary center of government within , housing many important civic institutions. Aside from its official duties, it also moonlights as a cultural center with many fine museums, theaters, opera houses, and symphony halls located here.

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's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.

Chinatown

Latitude
37.7943° or 37° 47′ 40″ north
Longitude
-122.4064° or 122° 24′ 23″ west
Population
9,650
Elevation
95 feet (29 metres)
Open location code
849VQHVV+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3639535348
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
5336477
Wiki­data ID
Q1073644
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Chinatown” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Chinatown”
  • Bulgarian: “Китайски квартал (Сан Франциско)”
  • Bulgarian: “Китайски квартал”
  • Bulgarian: “Чайнатаун (Сан Франциско)”
  • Catalan: “Chinatown”
  • Chinese: “三藩市華埠”
  • Chinese: “中国城”
  • Chinese: “旧金山唐人街”
  • Chinese: “舊金山中國城”
  • Chinese: “舊金山唐人街”
  • Chinese: “舊金山華埠”
  • Czech: “Čínská čtvrť”
  • Dutch: “Chinatown San Francisco”
  • Dutch: “Chinatown”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉina Kvartalo”
  • Finnish: “Chinatown”
  • French: “Chinatown (San Francisco)”
  • French: “Chinatown”
  • German: “Chinatown von San Francisco”
  • German: “Chinatown”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יינהטאון”
  • Indonesian: “Chinatown, San Francisco”
  • Indonesian: “Chinatown”
  • Italian: “Chinatown”
  • Japanese: “中華街”
  • Malay: “Pekan Cina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinatown, San Francisco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinatown”
  • Norwegian: “Chinatown”
  • Persian: “محله چینی‌ها (سن فرانسیسکو)”
  • Persian: “محله چینی‌ها”
  • Russian: “Китайский квартал в Сан-Франциско”
  • Russian: “Чайнатаун (Сан-Франциско)”
  • Scots: “Chinatown”
  • Serbian: “Кинески кварт у Сан Франциску”
  • Spanish: “barrio chino de San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “Chinatown (San Francisco)”
  • Spanish: “Chinatown de San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “Chinatown, San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “Chinatown”
  • Swedish: “Chinatown, San Francisco”
  • Swedish: “Chinatown”
  • Turkish: “Chinatown”
  • Welsh: “Chinatown”
  • Yue Chinese: “三藩市華埠”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include CMAC Edge on the Square and Quong Fook Tong Benevolent Association.

San Francisco: Must-Visit Destinations

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