Definition of "Hongkou"

Hongkou

proper noun
1. A creek in Shanghai, China.
2. A district of Shanghai, China.
  Quotations
  On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.
  2013 May 7, “Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2022‎