Chinatown

Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Boston Chinatown” and “Chinatown, Boston”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Boston Young Men’s Christian Union and Tufts University School of Medicine.

Historic building
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The Boston Young Men's Christian Union is a historic building at 48 Boylston Street in , Massachusetts and a liberal Protestant youth association.

College
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The is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in . It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown .

Hospital
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Tufts Children's Hospital in was a downtown Boston pediatric hospital owned by , occupying the space between Chinatown and the Boston Theater District, which closed in summer 2022.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leather District and Downtown Boston.

Neighborhood
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The is a neighborhood of near South Street, between the Financial District and Chinatown. The is a tightly defined area bounded by Kneeland Street to the south, Essex Street to the north, Atlantic Avenue to the east and Lincoln Street to the west.

Photo: Godsendlemiwinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.

Neighborhood
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is the smallest officially recognized neighborhood of , , United States. As of 2010, its population was approximately 1,312 residents living in 837 housing units, most of which are small brick rowhouses.

Chinatown

Latitude
42.35133° or 42° 21′ 5″ north
Longitude
-71.06262° or 71° 3′ 45″ west
Open location code
87JC9W2P+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2074055756
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q1009855
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Turkish—“Chinatown” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “波士頓唐人街”
  • Chinese: “波士顿唐人街”
  • Dutch: “Chinatown”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉina Kvartalo”
  • French: “Chinatown”
  • German: “Chinatown”
  • Italian: “Chinatown”
  • Japanese: “ボストン中華街”
  • Korean: “차이나타운”
  • Persian: “چایناتاون، بوستون”
  • Persian: “چایناتاون”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چایناتاون، بوستون”
  • Turkish: “Chinatown”

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