List of red-light districts

A list of world red-light districts.

Africa

Kenya

South Africa

Asia

Cambodia

People's Republic of China

India

*Delhi
** Chawri cite web | year = 2001 | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010317/windows/above.htm | title = World’s changing morals | publisher = The Tribune | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
** GB Road [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.advocacynet.org/cpage_view/startingsmall_05education_19_105.html | title = Education for Victims - When Prostitutes Go to Jail... Sakuntala cares for their children | publisher = The Advocacy Project | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
*Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)
** Sonagachi [cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4055143.stm | title = Girl-trafficking hampers Aids fight | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
*Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
** Kamathipura [cite web | year = 2001 | url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/06/03/stories/1303128f.htm | title = The ironies of Kamathipura | publisher = The Hindu | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
*Pune
** Budhwar Peth [cite web | year = 2001 | url = http://www.cms-uk.org/settingcaptivesfree/downloads/02_SCF_Children.pdf | title = Children of the red light district | publisher = Church Mission Society | accessdate = 2006-07-21]

Japan

South Korea

"All of them are defunct as prostitution became illegal in 2004" [cite web|url=http://www.hani.co.kr/section-005000000/2004/10/005000000200410220922207.html|title=성매매특별법 한달…집창촌 초토화|work=Hankyoreh online|date=2004-10-22|accessdate=2006-11-05]
*Daegu
** Jagalmadang [cite web | year = 2002 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/features/newsid_1764000/1764674.stm | title = Daegu - Fast fashion | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
*Seoul
** Cheongnyangni 588 cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1087 | title = 3,000 Sex Workers Protest Threat to Livelihood | publisher = The Seoul Times | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
** Mia-ri
** Yeongdeungpo

Malaysia

Pakistan

*Hyderabad
** Serey Ghat [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.youandaids.org/Features/PakistanAugust2004.asp | title = Sex Workers Come Together to Fight HIV/AIDS | publisher = You and AIDS (UN) | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
*Karachi
** Napier Road [cite web | year = 2005 | url = http://www.rb.se/NR/rdonlyres/F155C995-2AFE-4670-BCA9-5D9B0C04337C/0/CSECPakistanSituationAnalysis.pdf | title = Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children - A Situation Analysis of Pakistan | publisher = Save the Children Sweden | accessdate = 2006-07-21]
*Lahore
** Hira Mandi

Philippines

*Angeles Cityciteweb
url= http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/nov/07/yehey/prov/20051107pro1.html
title= EVAT hits sin city, freelance sex appears to be on the rise
accessdate= 2007-07-21
date=2003-11-04
work= The Manila Times
publisher= The Manila Times Publishing Corp.
archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20051124083102/http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/nov/07/yehey/prov/20051107pro1.html
archivedate= 2005-11-07
quote= ]
** Fields Avenue, Balibago entertainment district, former Clark Air Base (now closed)

Singapore

Thailand

Australia and Oceania

Australia

*Adelaide
**Hindley Street [ [http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Australia_and_Oceania/Australia/State_of_South_Australia/Adelaide-1880487/Warnings_or_Dangers-Adelaide-Hindley_Street-BR-1.html Dangers and warnings of Hindley Street, Adelaide] 2006.]
*Brisbane
** The Valley [ [http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s797373.htm Brisbane's prostitute safety zones] , ABC, 3 March 2003.]
*Melbourne
** St Kilda [ [http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/catwaust/web/myfiles/substreet.htm Submission on the Interim Report of the Attorney-General's Street Prostitution Advisory Group] , Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia.]
**King Street
*Sydney
** Kings Cross [http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/working/ch5-2.html A decade and a half of struggle : the prostitutes' movement] , Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991.]
** Darlinghurst/East Sydney

New Zealand

*Auckland
** Karangahape Road [http://www.nzpc.org.nz/lawrefor.htm Prostitution Law Reform] , New Zealand Prostitutes Collective.]
*Christchurch
** Manchester Street
*Wellington
** Vivian Street

Europe

Belgium

Brussels

The Netherlands

Amsterdam

Spain

Barcelona

* Barrio Chino [cite web | title = Solo cuatro de los 10 distritos se salvan del sexo en la calle | url=http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=461791&idseccio_PK=1021] [cite web | title = Old Barcelona | url=http://www.in-spain.info/spain-regions/catalonia-barcelona-old-barcelona.htm]

Sweden

United Kingdom

England

*Bolton
** Breightmet Street/Shiffnall Street [cite web | year = 1997 | url = http://archive.asianimage.co.uk/1997/12/8/812524.html | title = Councillor calls for 'soft line' on vice | publisher = Bolton Evening News | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Bristol
**Fishponds Road, Eastville [cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/3654598.stm | title = West: Green light for red light zones? | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2008-03-26]
* Doncaster
** Netherall [ [http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/about/chamber/default.asp?Nav=Report&ReportID=5023 The Council Chamber ] ]
*Leeds
** Chapeltown, and Holbeck [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.leeds.gov.uk/moderngov/Published/C00000465/M00001109/AI00005882/$4hannahPROSTITUTIONSTRATEGYFORLEEDS.docA.ps.pdf | title = Prostitution Strategy for Leeds | publisher = Safer Leeds Partnership | accessdate = 2008-03-28]
*Leicester
** South Highfields (defunct) [cite web | year = 2003 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/3232488.stm | title = Council to tackle kerb crawling | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Liverpool
** Crown St (North - Adj. to Royal Liverpool University Hospital]
** Netherfield Road North, Everton
** Sheil Road, Kensington cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://www.cph.org.uk/showPublication.aspx?pubid=123 | title = Consultation on a Managed Zone for sex trade workers in Liverpool | publisher = Liverpool John Moores University | accessdate = 2008-03-26]
*London
** Gropecunt Lane (possible medieval; defunct) [cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://money.guardian.co.uk/homebuying/story/0,1456,1195113,00.html | title = A street by any other name...might be easier to sell | publisher = The Guardian | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
** King's Cross [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4669584.stm | title = A clean sweep in King's Cross | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
** Piccadilly Circus (defunct) [cite web | year = 2005 | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1899423,00.html | title = Sex, please — we're British | publisher = The Sunday Times | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
** Soho [cite web | year = 2003 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2754019.stm | title = Sex workers say 'let us stay' | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Manchester
** (Heterosexual) Fairfield Street [ cite web | year = 2008 | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A9565329 | title = National Rail Stations in Central Manchester | publisher = BBC H2G2 | accessdate = 2008-03-26]
** (Gay) Rochdale Canal/Canal Street in Gay Village [cite web | year = 2003 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/3056340.stm | title = Charity tackles rent boy culture | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2008-03-27]
*Plymouth
** Millbay [cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4071353.stm | title = Sex workers reject red light zone | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Reading
**Oxford Road / Western Elms Avenue [cite web | year = 2007 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/6506445.stm | title = Vice crackdown sees 22 arrested | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2008-03-26]
*Shrewsbury
** Grope Lane (medieval; defunct) [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.shrewsburyguide.info/shrewsbury_tour/tour_02.shtml| title = To St Alkmund's Place | publisher = Virtual Shropshire | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Swindon
** Manchester Road/Gorse Hill [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4825406.stm | title = Action promised over prostitutes | publisher = BBC | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Wolverhampton
** All Saints/Parkfield – [cite web | year = 2006 | url = http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/policing_safety/crime_law/street_sex_trade/regenerating.htm | title = Regenerating All Saints, Blakenhall and Parkfield | publisher = Wolverhampton City Council | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*The RLD [http://www.TheRLD.co.uk "Red Light District"] , , 12 March 2008.

Northern Ireland

Scotland

*Edinburgh
** Rose Street/Leith Walk/Coburg Street/Salamander Street (all defunct)cite web | year = 2004 | url = http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/lg/or-04/lg04-1502.htm | title = Local Government and Transport Committee Official Report Tuesday 1 June 2004 | publisher = Scottish Parliament | accessdate = 2006-07-19]
*Glasgow
** Blythswood Square (defunct)

Norway

North America

Canada

Mexico

* Nuevo Laredo
** Zona de Tolerancia (most famous "Boy’s Town") [cite web | year = 2001 | url =http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/mrp/relations/NewsReleases/2001/04/4n1.html | title = SWWC Boystown exhibit both mesmerizing, disturbing | publisher = Texas State University-San Marcos | accessdate = 2006-07-18]

United States

Florida

*Tampa
**Nebraska Avenue [ [http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/07/Hillsborough/Prostitution_defies_c.shtml Hillsborough: Prostitution defies community vigils, police action ] ]

Tennessee

*Nashville
** Dickerson Pike (somewhat defunct) [ [http://www.police.nashville.org/news/news/2004/0224_relax_inn.htm Nashville.gov - Police - News - Police Close Relax Inn ] ]
** Murfreesboro Pike (somewhat defunct) [http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=9&screen=news&news_id=36404]

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