, 1898. This photograph illustrates the large population of Chinese men who used San Francisco as a springboard to the California gold fields. The term "Chinatown" is an Americanism that dates to this period.]]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 Greater China. Chinatowns occur all over the world including East Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia and Europe.In the past, overcrowded