List of Sin Cities
Sin City is a nickname that may be applied to an urban area that caters to various vices. These vices may be legal or illegal activities which are tolerated.
Examples of such vices include sex-related services, gambling, or drug use|drug] use, and even excessive organized crime and gang activity. If the city is known for prostitution, it is often called a red-light district, as in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sin Cities in the world
Cities or areas that have this reputation include:Africa
- Egypt
- * Cairo
- Morocco
- * Marrakesh
Asia
- Bahrain
- * Manama
- China
- * Dongguan
- * Hong Kong
- ** Portland Street
- * Macau
- India
- * Mumbai
- Israel
- * Tel Aviv
- Japan
- * Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo
- * Susukino, Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaidō
- * Tobita Shinchi, Nishinari-ku, Osaka
- Lebanon
- * Beirut.
- Malaysia
- * George Town
- Philippines
- * Angeles City
- Singapore
- * Geylang
- Thailand
- * Bangkok
- * Pattaya
- Turkey
- * Istanbul
- United Arab Emirates
- * Dubai
Europe
- Cyprus
- * Ayia Napa
- Czech Republic
- * Prague
- Germany
- * Berlin
- Greece
- * Athens
- Malta
- * Paceville
- Netherlands
- * Amsterdam
- Russia
- * Moscow
- Spain
- * Ibiza
- United Kingdom
- * Liverpool, England
- * Soho, London, England
North America
- Canada
- * Montreal became well known as one of North America's "sin cities" with unparalleled nightlife, a reputation it still holds today. In part, its bustling nightlife is attributed to its relatively late "last call", a large university population, the drinking age of 18, and the excellent public transportation system combines with other aspects of the Montreal culture to make the city's nightlife unique. The diversity of the clubs in Montreal attests to the popularity of its nightlife, with night clubs, pubs, bars and singing bars, Latin clubs, African clubs, jazz clubs, lounges, after-hours houses, and strip clubs all attracting different types of customers.
- Mexico
- * Tijuana
- United States
- * Alabama
- ** Phenix City
- * California
- ** Los Angeles and its Hollywood district
- ** San Francisco
- * Florida
- ** Miami
- * Illinois
- ** Calumet City
- ** Chicago
- * Kentucky
- ** Newport is the first city within North America to be coined the title due to its role in prostitution, gambling, gangs, gunplay, racketeering, and many others.
- * Nevada
- ** Las Vegas. In former days it was known also for organized crime and police and political corruption.
- ** Reno.
- * New Jersey
- ** Atlantic City .
- * New York
- ** New York City formerly known for out of control crime, Times Square's sex shops and prostitution and barely hidden drug trade and citywide gangs, including many Mob families and police and political corruption.
- ** Utica was formerly considered a sin city, and was known as the "Sin City of the East" in the 1930s through 1950s due to widespread corruption, organized crime, and political machines.
South America
- Brazil
- * Rio de Janeiro
- Colombia
- * Medellín
- Venezuela
- * Caracas
Oceania
- Australia
- * Australian Capital Territory
- ** Canberra – Canberra is regarded as the most socially progressive city in Australia; the city has long had a large and legal sex industry and a large nightlife scene; the ACT is also the only part of Australia where recreational cannabis usage is legal
- * New South Wales
- ** Sydney
- *** Kings Cross – A historically notorious inner-city of Sydney, although this reputation is outdated with the imposition of new lockout laws in February 2014 changing the character of the area dramatically, and arguably eliminating the only "sin city" in Australia., organized crime, bikie gangs
- * Queensland
- ** Gold Coast
- ** Mount Isa – known for its alcohol
- * Northern Territory
- ** Palmerston
- *** Gray
- * Victoria
- ** Melbourne
- New Zealand
- * Auckland
- * Christchurch
Former Sin Cities
Asia
- China
- * Shanghai – 1920s and 1930s
Europe
- Weimar Republic
- * Berlin – 1920s and early 1930s
- Monto, Dublin –
North America
- Canada
- * Montreal, Quebec, which earned a reputation for vice through American tourists fleeing the prohibition laws.
- United States
- * Alabama
- ** Phenix City, was notorious during the 1940s and 1950s for being a haven for organized crime, prostitution, and gambling. Many of its customers came from the United States Army training center at Fort Benning, Georgia.
- * Florida
- ** Miami, during the 1970s and 1980s
- * Illinois
- ** Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s
- * Indiana
- ** Michigan City was considered Sin City in the 1980-1990s, with the proliferation of massage parlors.
- ** Terre Haute was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag in 1955.. Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.
- * Kentucky
- ** Covington, Kentucky
- ** Newport, Kentucky
- * Massachusetts
- ** Boston, Massachusetts, from the early-1960s to the early-1990s recession years, known for the Scollay Square burlesque district and the Combat Zone adult entertainment district, Suffolk Downs on the Revere city line, notorious housing projects, the largest policy racket in the United States, loan shark offices at Bennington and Brooks streets in the East Boston district, and rowdy Irish pubs aligned along West Broadway and Dorchester streets in the South Boston district.
- ** Lynn, Massachusetts, during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, known for its famous rhyme, "Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin, you never come out the way you go in.
- * Louisiana
- ** New Orleans from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district
- * New York
- ** New York City in the mid to late 19th century and 20th century, Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990
- ** Utica, in the 1930s through the 1950s for the extent of its corruption and control from political machines, presence of organized crime.
- * Texas
- ** Galveston in the 1920s to 1957
Oceania
- Australia
- * Western Australia
- ** Kalgoorlie – once home to many brothels and pubs that opened in the morning