Given its proximity to the Asian continent, Australia has and continues to witness a massive immigration of Chinese and other Asians. As with Canada, the majority of ethnic Chinese immigrants to Australia are from Hong Kong. Chinese from various places of mainland China, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, Philippines, and Indonesia, and Latin America also settled Australia. Chinatowns are found in the Australian cities of Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, Perth, Western Australia, and Fortitude Valley (a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland). Like their Chinese North American counterparts, Chinese Australians tend to live in many different suburbs.
Sydney's Chinatown is the third area to bear that name. Originally in the Rocks area of Sydney, it later moved to the area near Market Street at Darling Harbour and finally to its current location around Dixon Street.
Melbourne's Chinatown is around Lonsdale Street, Little Bourke Street, and Russell Street.