Chinatown–International District's overlapping neighborhood borders

Seattle’s Chinatown–International District encompasses historically distinct neighborhoods-Chinatown, Japantown (Nihonmachi), and Little Saigon-whose cultural and commercial boundaries overlap within a compact urban area. The district is recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, and institutions like the Wing Luke Museum document the district’s cross-border immigrant histories. The district’s tightly interwoven neighborhoods create an unusual mosaic of ethnic and commercial borderlines inside central Seattle.