Chinatown, Vancouver

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Chinatown
Neighbourhood
Millennium Gate on Pender Street in Chinatown
Coordinates: 49°16′48″N 123°5′58″W / 49.28000°N 123.09944°W / 49.28000; -123.09944
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
City	Vancouver
Time zone	UTC−8 (Pacific)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (PDT)
Area codes	604, 778, 236
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	Vancouver's Chinatown National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	July 19, 2011

Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred around Pender Street, it is surrounded by Gastown to the north, the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west, the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south, the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast, and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the southeast.

Due to the large ethnic Chinese presence in Vancouver—especially represented by mostly Cantonese-speaking multi-generation Chinese Canadians and first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong—the city has been referred to as "Hongcouver".^[1] However, most immigration in recent years has been Mandarin-speaking residents from Mainland China. Chinatown remains a popular tourist attraction and is one of the largest historic Chinatowns in North America, but it experienced recent decline as newer members of Vancouver's Chinese community dispersed to other parts of the metropolitan area.