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[[Image:San Francisco Chinatown.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Chinatown in San Francisco]]

This article discusses '''Chinatown patterns in North America'''. For the purposes of this article [[North America]] is defined as [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. For a broad survey of individual Chinatowns in the region, see [[Chinatowns in North America]].  For information on [[Chinatown]]s in [[Mexico]] and [[Central America]], please refer to [[Chinatowns in Latin Americ(contracted; show full)

===Locations and layout===
In [[frontier]] ("[[Wild West]]") and rural Chinatowns, a Chinese general store also provided a post office, bank, townhall, translation services and local stomping ground for the Chinese population.  Also included in several Chinatowns of this type were Chinese religious shrines (called 
[[joss temples), such as [[Buddhisthouse]]s, incorporating [[Buddhist]], [[Confucian]] and [[Taoist]] temples.

Examples of rural and small town Chinatowns include the communities of [[Locke, California|Locke]] and [[Weaverville, California|Weaverville]], located north and northwest of [[San Francisco, California]]. Others include a "China Alley" in the Central Valley town of [[Hanford, California]], [[Chinese Camp, California| Chinese Camp]], and a site in [[Butte, Montana]].

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Sources: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Citizenship and Immigration Canada

[[Category:Chinatowns]]
[[Category:Chinese American history]]