Kai Tak

Ultimately named after Kai Ho and Au Tak, the two original developers of the area.

The present airport, at Kai Tak, in Kowloon, which has one runway, will be closed when the new one opens.

1990 January 7, “TRAVEL ADVISORY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, Travel:

Some residents of Kai Tak said they would consider organising protests, which would pose a significant headache for the government, and seeking a judicial review. They said the scheme ran contrary to plans to build a second central business district (CBD) in the area and could affect home prices.
"This is a matter of confidence in the government (planning)," said Cheung King-fan, a district councillor of Kai Tak area.

2023 February 10, Clare Jim, “Hong Kong's Lee faces stern test over $3.4 bln bid to ease housing shortage”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-02-10, Asia Pacific:

Members of the media gather at a land plot for light public housing in the Kai Tak area of Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Hong Kong plans to spend about HK$26 billion ($3.3 billion) on temporary apartments to help reduce the wait times for public housing in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets.

2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Business:

Hong Kong authorities should speed up tendering and construction of an elevated mass transit system in Kai Tak and consider extending it to East Kowloon to invigorate the area, local politicians have said, with the government earlier ruling out any extension.

2024 March 13, Cannix Yau, “Move faster on elevated Kai Tak mass transit system and consider extension, Hong Kong authorities urged”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-13, Hong Kong / Transport:

An area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Kowloon Bay

Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons.

1977, Frank Leeming, “Kwuntong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:

The nearest neighborhoods — Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay — are somewhat rundown, and until planned public transportation connections are completed in the coming years, the terminal building’s rooftop gardens will be tough for ordinary visitors to reach.

2013 June 11, Bettina Wassener, “Hong Kong's Old Airport Reopens as a Cruise Ship Terminal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-06-11:

At 8:39 a.m. last Friday, the 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, was as busy as always.

2015 October 6, Yanan Wang, “A homeless woman who died in McDonald’s was among Hong Kong’s legions of ‘McRefugees’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-06:

An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Kwun Tong

From Cantonese 官塘 (gun¹ tong⁴) or an earlier equivalent.

The paper trail left behind by $2 million (1.38 million pounds) stolen from a hacked Ecuadorian bank runs cold in a windowless gamers’ crash pad in a gritty industrial area of Hong Kong.
The room, in a former factory in the Kwun Tong district, is the registered address for Jiushun Group Co., Ltd., the firm that received the largest single transfer of the $12 million reported missing from Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) in January 2015.

2016 June 1, Clare Baldwin, Nathan Layne, Tris Pan, “Insight - Trail in Ecuador cyberheist leads to gamers’ crash pad in Hong Kong”, in David Greising, Kevin Krolicki, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2025-02-23, World:

The clashes in the district of Kwun Tong, in eastern Kowloon, were a marked departure from the peaceful, if sometimes tense, gatherings that had taken place over much of the last two weeks.

2019 August 24, Raymond Zhong, Steven Lee Myers, “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Turn Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-24, Asia Pacific:

The construction of the fountain in the city’s Kwun Tong district went ahead despite the district council passing a motion to halt the project last year.

2021 April 26, Candice Chau, “Water margins: Hong Kong music fountain with a HK$50 million price tag opens to underwhelmed public”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-09-15:

During her 38-year tenure, Winnie Poon made history as the first popularly elected female council member in Kwun Tong district and witnessed the councils become more democratic.

2023 December 7, KANIS LEUNG, “Hong Kong’s new election law thins the candidate pool, giving voters little option in Sunday’s polls”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-12-08, World News:


Ngau Tau Kok

From Cantonese 牛頭角 /牛头角 (ngau⁴ tau⁴ gok³).

An old Hakka woman, who was married into the Hakka stone-cutters’ settlement of Ngau Tau Kok in East Kowloon at the age of 9 in 1897, recalls that her sister-in-law bought hemp in Kowloon City market and brought it home to weave, took it back to Kowloon Street to be dyed and later brought it back to the village to make into clothes for the family. Making bedclothes and mosquito nets was also mentioned. Most items were dyed black in colour. Her husband’s family were Hakkas from near Taàm-shui and they had then been in Ngau Tau Kok for three generations.

1983, James Hayes, “Itinerant Weavers and the Cultivation of Hemp and Indigo”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 189-190:

Deep in the working-class housing district of Ngau Tau Kok, Mr. Tong and his three officers were exasperated. They had visited 10 likely sites for sellers of pirated music CD's but had come up empty-handed.

1995 February 27, Edward A. Gargan, “Pirate's Bazaar Thrives in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Business Day, page 1:

The inferno at the Amoycan Industrial Centre in Ngau Tau Kok was brought under control at 7.38pm, more than 80 hours after it broke out on Tuesday, killing two firefighters over two days.

2016 June 24, Christy Leung, Emily Tsang, Phila Siu, “Killer Ngau Tau Kok fire tamed after 80 hours”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-26, Law and Crime:

The first phase of LPH scheme includes projects on Yau Pok Road in Yuen Long and Choi Hing Road in Ngau Tau Kok, with units available from the first quarter of 2025.

2024 July 15, James Lee, “Hong Kong ‘light public housing’ scheme receives 9,600 applications for 4,400 flats”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-07-15, Hong Kong:


Sau Mau Ping

Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods.

2006 March 20, Andy Cheng, “Deities have given 40 years of good advice and healing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-04-02, Hong Kong:

The erection of such new temples and statues can be seen as the manipulation of mythological material to accommodate the economic and political goals of the current government. For example, an event much touted on tourist sites on the Internet is a ritual performed at the temples at Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon, Hong Kong in honor of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, the subject of a reading in this chapter.

2017, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137:

More than 60 prosecutions have been brought by Hong Kong’s Labour Department against the contractor, subcontractors and individuals involved in a fatal crane collapse that occurred at a building site in Sau Mau Ping last September. Three were killed and six were injured in the incident.

2023 March 7, Lea Mok, “Contractor among 67 prosecutions over Hong Kong construction site crane collapse that killed 3”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-02-02, Hong Kong:

A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.

2023 December 5, “14 people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Sau Mau Ping”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2023-12-07, Local:


Lam Tin

The Hong Kong government imposed a third “ambush-style” lockdown at a housing estate in Lam Tin on Sunday night, as two building blocks recorded 15 coronavirus infections in 12 days.

2021 February 1, Candice Chau, “In Pictures: Hong Kong imposes third overnight Covid-19 lockdown, no cases found after 400 tested”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential area in Kowloon. A taxi carried out a “careless lane change” and the other vehicles could not stop in time, causing the collision, senior police inspector Lee Pok-kit said.

2023 March 24, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong traffic accident leaves 87 people injured”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-21, World:

A village of Tsing Yi Rural Committee, Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Yau Tong

When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.

2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region (Social Sciences / Sociology), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:

“When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”

2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-10, Asia Pacific:

On Wednesday night, police intervened when note posters scuffled with men trying to remove them in Yau Tong, a working class neighborhood on the eastern side of Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong island.

2019 July 11, Joyce Zhou, John Ruwitch, Tyrone Siu, Felix Tam, Vimvam Tong, “Imagine all the Post-its: Hong Kong protesters come together with 'Lennon Walls'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-07-11, World News:

Hong Kong saw one of its first protests since Covid-19 restrictions were eased, as a group of environmental activists protested against the illegal operation of a concrete plant in Yau Tong on Saturday.

2023 February 4, Candice Chau, “Environmental protesters rally against illegal concrete plant in Hong Kong amid heavy police presence”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, Hong Kong:


Kwai Chung

Lying close to Kowloon and facing onto the western approaches to Hong Kong Harbour, Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung were the obvious geographical areas for initial expansion.

2006, James Hayes, “Village Removals for New Town Development 1960 Onward: Resitings and New Modes of Compensation”, in The Great Difference: Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People, 1898-2004, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97:

The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned.

2007, Hong Kong 2006, Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied peacefully during heavy rain at a sports stadium in the Kwai Chung area of the city on Sunday.

2019 August 25, “Hong Kong: Shot fired, water cannon deployed after petrol-bomb attack”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-09-14:

A police officer on July 30 aimed a shotgun at protesters during a clash in the Kwai Chung district, where residents usually catch the bus. The Hong Kong Police Force later said the weapon had been loaded with beanbag rounds, and that the officer drew it only after protesters attacked him.

2019 October 31, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong’s Jarring Protests: Clashes Fade, Then Flare Up Again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-31, Asia Pacific:

An area of Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Tsuen Wan

Tsun Wan (alternative)
Tsin Wan (alternative)
Ts'ün Wán (alternative)

An area and town in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Tsuen Wan was one of Hong Kong’s most densely populated districts during the 1960s, thanks to migrant workers from the mainland arriving in the area to provide labour for the textile industry. The migrants also invested in property which helped the area to prosper.

2017 September 12, Maggie Suen, “You're missing out if you haven't discovered the hidden gems and history of Tsuen Wan”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-02, Lifestyle:

The northwestern district of Tsuen Wan also saw police firing tear gas to disperse protesters chased from the Citywalk shopping mall.

2019 November 10, “Hong Kong protests continue amid rage at activist death”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-11-10, News:

He ran in the 2019 district council elections, beating veteran pro-establishment politician Michael Tien in the Tsuen Wan district.

2021 December 17, Alice Fung, Zen Soo, “Hong Kong public gears up to vote amid new election laws”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-12-17:

A rural committee in Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing districts, New Territories, Hong Kong.

荃灣鄉事委員會 /荃湾乡事委员会

cyun⁴ waan¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Tuen Mun

Last weekend, thousands of protesters rallied in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Tuen Mun against a group of middle-aged mainland women who they accused of causing a disturbance in the local park with loud singing and provocative dancing.

2019 July 13, Amy Qin, Ezra Cheung, “Hong Kong Protest Against Mainland Chinese Traders Turns Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-13, ASIA PACIFIC:

Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during what police there call a "dispersal operation" against a group of demonstrators gathered in Tuen Mun, Reuters reported.

2019 November 15, Melissa Van Brunnersum, “Two German citizens detained in Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-11-15, News:

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has alerted police after two men filmed themselves on top of a moving train in Tuen Mun, a stunt known as train surfing.

2023 January 10, Hillary Leung, “Hong Kong police alerted over video of two men ‘surfing’ roof of moving MTR train”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-10-01, Hong Kong:

An area and town in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A rural committee in Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Yuen Long

From Cantonese 元朗 (jyun⁴ long⁵) or an earlier variant.

Un Long (alternative)
Ün Long (alternative)
Ünlong (alternative)

On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.

2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-21, Asia & Pacific:

More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.

2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific:

An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.

1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11:

The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan^([sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai]) in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.

2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide), 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

In the northern district of Yuen Long, a police officer opened fire when he was surrounded in his car and attacked by locals. A petrol bomb exploded at the officer's feet.
"A large group of rioters attacked a plainclothes police officer in Yuen Long district. The police officer fell onto the ground and was beaten up by the group. Facing serious threat to his life, he fired one shot in self-defense," police said in a statement.

2019 October 5, “Hong Kong protests continue after night of violence that halted rail services”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-10-05, News:


Tin Shui Wai

From Cantonese 天水圍 /天水围 (tin¹ seoi² wai⁴), when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The sole commercial site is in the town of Tin Shui Wai, in the northwestern New Territories, where the government hopes to boost the economy. The suburban high-rise town has been dubbed the "City of Tears" in local media because of its high rate of social problems.

2011 December 21, Joy Leung, Twinnie Siu, Alex Frew McMillan, “Hong Kong to build on land sales after meeting target”, in Chris Lewis, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-01-07, Markets:

These changes are strikingly visible in Tin Shui Wai, a suburb of high-rise housing a stone’s throw from the border with mainland China.

2019 September 27, Max Fisher, “‘One Country, Two Nationalisms’: The Crisis Behind Hong Kong’s Turmoil”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-27, Asia Pacific:

A fire that broke out on Tuesday at a Tin Shui Wai construction site has raged on for more than 24 hours, as firefighters continued battling the blaze on Wednesday evening.

2024 April 10, James Lee, “Firefighters battle blaze at Hong Kong construction site for more than 24 hours”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-10-06, Hong Kong:


Sheung Shui

From Cantonese 上水 (soeng⁶ seoi²), when the initials of both syllables were still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Although a slowing economy and campaigns against extravagant consumption by government officials have hurt most luxury shopping hubs in Hong Kong, business has been booming in the New Territories. This is especially true along the East Rail Line, which links China with Hong Kong and runs through Sheung Shui and the towns of Fanling, Tai Po and Sha Tin, all of which offer walking access to large malls.[…]
One major initiative, the Northeast New Territories New Development Areas, involves building more than 60,000 apartments for about 175,000 people by 2022 and merging the towns of Sheung Shui and Fanling into a town of 500,000. It is projected to cost $15.5 billion.

2014 June 10, Chris Horton, “Chinese Shoppers Change Hong Kong Border Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-06-11, Commercial Real Estate:

Sheung Shui, an area that borders mainland China, has been roiled by several large protests in recent weeks, with calls from local residents to “reclaim” the area from Chinese tourists and merchants. It was not immediately clear whether the raw chicken was the result of a genuine kitchen mistake or linked to the unrest in Sheung Shui.

2019 September 7, Rebecca Tan, “Amid protests, Hong Kong police receive a peculiar delivery: 100 meal boxes with raw chicken”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-08, Asia:

Last summer, pro-democracy protesters harassed Chinese traders in Sheung Shui and smashed storefronts that catered to them in the Hong Kong border town, angry at what they saw as a de facto invasion.

2020 May 25, Sarah Wu, “Hong Kong border town slumps as mainland traders vanish”, in Marius Zaharia, Bill Rigby, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-11-06:

An area and town in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A rural committee in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

上水區鄉事委員會 /上水区乡事委员会

soeng⁶ seoi² keoi¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Fanling

Fan Ling (alternative)
Fan Leng (alternative)

Fanling in the New Territories was once a rural outpost, but it has quickly developed into an area with a mix of high rises and low-density developments.

2016 December 30, Jimmy Chow, “Fanling becomes cross-border hub of low-rise luxury property”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-05, Property:

The crash in the New Territories of Hong Kong that border mainland China tore away much of the left side of the bus and ripped a jagged hole in its roof.[…]
Police said the bus was traveling on a highway from the town of Fanling.

2019 December 18, “Hong Kong bus crash kills 6, injures more than 30 others”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2024-06-02:

A Reuters witness saw several masked protesters, clad in black, rush into the public housing block in the Fanling district near to the border with China, and set alight a Molotov cocktail.[…]
Hong Kong authorities had said they would convert “Fai Ming Estate, an unoccupied public estate in Fanling, into temporary flats for quarantine and observation of close contact persons without symptoms if needed.”

2020 January 26, Jessie Pang, Felix Tam, Tyrone Siu, Aleksander Solum, Ben Blanchard, James Pomfret, “Hong Kong bars Hubei residents from entering city as coronavirus fears intensify”, in Toby Chopra, Louise Heavens, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2020-01-26, EMERGING MARKETS:

粉嶺區鄉事委員會 /粉岭区乡事委员会

fan² leng⁵ keoi¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Tai Po

On Friday, police found body parts in an apartment near Tai Po, in Hong Kong’s outlying New Territories.

2023 February 26, Joyce Lau, “Ex-husband’s relatives charged in Hong Kong model’s slaying”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-26, Asia:

An area and town in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

It was after dark on a Tuesday evening in December 2017 when the vans pulled onto Island House Lane, a placid side street of residential complexes and community garden plots in the suburban Tai Po district.[…]
The pangolin’s value has increased with its rarity — the shipment seized in Tai Po had a street value of around $300,000.

2019 February 12, Charles Homans, “Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-12:

A 19-year-old was left seriously wounded after being attacked near the “Lennon Wall” pro-democracy message board in Tai Po on Saturday afternoon.[…]
Police said the case was classified as wounding, and was under investigation by the District Investigation Team of Tai Po District.

2019 October 19, Holmes Chan, “19-year-old stabbed in neck and stomach at Tai Po ‘Lennon Wall’ as assailant declares Hong Kong is ‘part of China’”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2021-09-23, Hong Kong:

A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Sha Tin

From Cantonese 沙田 (saa¹ tin⁴), when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The demonstration in the Sha Tin area of the New Territories, a region of Hong Kong not far from the border with mainland China, came one day after clashes broke out between police officers and protesters in a Hong Kong border town.

2019 July 14, Amy Qin, “Hong Kong Protesters Try to Keep Momentum With Weekend Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-14, Asia Pacific:

Hundreds of protesters gathered at New Town Plaza, a multistory shopping mall in the Sha Tin district.

2019 September 22, Timothy McLaughlin, Casey Quackenbush, “Hong Kong protesters target Beijing-friendly businesses in latest demonstrations”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-22, Asia & Pacific:

In the New Territories town of Sha Tin, police fired tear gas canisters directly at high-rise windows, though it was not clear why, as the Chinese-ruled city was gripped by the most widespread violence in nearly four months of unrest.

2019 October 1, Jessie Pang, Donny Kwok, Sharon Tam, Poppy McPherson, Anne Marie Roantree, Farah Master, James Pomfret, Twinnie Siu, Alun John, David Kirton, Jennifer Hughes, Keith Zhai, Clara Ferreira Marques, Bill Rigby, Nick Macfie, “Hong Kong police fire water cannon, tear gas as protests spread”, in Lincoln Feast, Robert Birsel, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-11-08, World:

An area and town in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

The decline of the DP’s success rate was attributable to a number of factors, including (1) the shift of some DP incumbents to competition in other geographical constituencies, (2) the mutual distrust between some DP candidates and the local residents, and (3) the strong performance of the opponents of the DP candidates, especially the DAB candidates.³ Examples showing the failure of DP incumbents changing their constituencies included Ng Wing-fai in Yau Tsim Mong district and Ho Suk-ping in the Shatin district.⁴

[2002, Shiu-hing Lo, Wing-yat Yu, Kwok-fai Wan, “The 1999 District Councils Elections”, in Ming K. Chan, Alvin Y. So, editors, Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 141:

A rural committee in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Sai Kung

In Hong Kong, Dickson Fu left work early to watch the eclipse from a seaside promenade in the Sai Kung neighborhood.

2021 May 26, Nick Perry, “Earth’s shadow creeps across moon ahead of super blood moon”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-05-26:

A town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A number of villages have been given a new lease of life. In the former Hakka village of Sheung Yiu in Sai Kung, the biggest house has been turned into a museum. Originally from mainland China, many Hakkas moved to Hong Kong in the 17th century, where they established fishing and farming villages, mostly in the New Territories.

2011 January 18, Jonathan Spollen, “Hong Kong's Forgotten Villages”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-01-19:

An area of Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

Reaching Taiwan would mean traversing Chinese territorial waters that surround Hong Kong. Hours after they embarked from the verdant Sai Kung Peninsula on the morning of Aug. 23, their speedboat was seized by China's Guangdong coast guard bureau about 50 miles southeast of their departure point.

2020 August 31, Shibani Mahtani, Nick Aspinwall, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Hong Kong refugees captured at sea spent months plotting daring dash to freedom”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-01, Asia & Pacific:

A peninsula in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

On Monday, many commenters on social media blamed the whale’s death on sightseers who had flocked to the area over the past two weeks after the whale was discovered in waters off Sai Kung, a district known for its hiking trails and beaches.

2023 August 1, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong official vows to mull legal changes after discovery of whale carcass sparked anger”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-08-01, World News:

A rural committee in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Tseung Kwan O

Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.

2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Sinosphere:

On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators had dressed in black and marched peacefully in the town of Tseung Kwan O.

2019 August 5, “Hong Kong leader warns city in a 'very dangerous situation'”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-08-05, News:

Suzette Foo, a senior superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Force, said earlier this week that police officers had fired 44 rounds of tear gas, 11 rubber bullets, three beanbag rounds and one sponge grenade during operations in the Tseung Kwan O district near where Mr. Chow fell.

2019 November 7, Austin Ramzy, Ezra Cheung, Elaine Yu, “Hong Kong Student Dies From Fall After Police Clash With Protesters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-08, Asia Pacific:

Participants chanted slogans against the reclamation project as they marched in the rain with banners in the eastern district of Tseung Kwan O, where the project is slated to be built.

2023 March 26, Jessie Pang, Xie Yu, James Pomfret, “Hong Kong police keep tight tabs on first authorised protest in years”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-03-26, Asia Pacific:

At Sunday’s rally, local environmentalists and residents in the Tseung Kwan O neighborhood in the New Territories demonstrated against the construction of six facilities that they say could be intrusive and bring nuisance to the community. They held signs that read, “No to constructing a cement factory and refuse collection point!”

2023 March 27, Theodora Yu, “Hong Kong sees first protest in three years — under strict controls”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

An area and town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

9. Port Shelter. Good anchorage for any size of ships. Chiefly useful as being deep close to shore, and divided from Tseung Kwan O by a small neck of land ¼ miles wide.

1899, Commander de Horsey, R.N., Report on the Harbours in Mirs Bay:

A bay in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


A Kung Ngam

From late November through the end of the year, gongs, drums, and firecrackers sounded continuously, from the Tam Kung Temple at A Kung Ngam in the north to the Man Mo Temple on Hollywood Road and the Goddess of Mercy Temple on Mount Taiping Street in the west, from the Temple of Mazu at Stanley in the south to Dawang Temple on Wan Chai Road in the east.

2005, Shu-ching Shih, chapter 8, in Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt, transl., City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41:

At the A Kung Ngam village in Shau Kei Wan, residents on Wednesday told the Post about the pain they felt over losing the woman, 58, who had lived in the area all her life.

2023 April 19, Harvey Kong, “Rural Hong Kong village in shock over death of neighbour who was found unconscious in public hospital toilet, recall fond memories”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Health & Environment:

At 2.24 pm, a boar was found severely wounded in the westward direction of the Island Eastern Corridor near the roads of A Kung Ngam.

2024 May 12, “Boar fatally struck by a taxi at Shau Kei Wan”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2024-05-12, Local:

An area and village in Shau Kei Wan, Eastern district, Hong Kong.


Pak Sha Wan

From Cantonese 白沙灣 /白沙湾, when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Two men drowned in separate incidents while engaging in water sports in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung on Sunday.
In the first incident, a 67-year-old man was part of a group of 28 people who took a boat trip from Pak Sha Wan.
He was reported missing while swimming around the boat at a spot 250 metres (820 feet) off Tai Long Sai Wan and was later found unconscious on a nearby rocky beach.

2023 June 25, Danny Mok, “Hong Kong swimmer and fisherman drown in 2 separate incidents in Sai Kung”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-25, Society:

A bay in Sai Kung district, Hong Kong: Hebe Haven.

There was a 6-inch coastal battery at Pak Sha Wan, a 6-inch howitzer battery at Sai Wan and a 3-inch AA battery at Sai Wan Hill.

2022 September 15, Philip Cracknell, The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island#English

A former bay in Hong Kong Island in Eastern district, Hong Kong.

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Stanley, Southern district, Hong Kong.


Mount Nicholson

Perhaps named after Lieutenant W.C.A. Nicholson.

Meanwhile the Grenadiers, preparatory to the dawn attack, had been ordered to occupy a forward position astride Mount Nicholson.

1957, Stanley Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore, page 137:

The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'.

2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:

Of great ecological significance is the Nam Fung Road Woodland nestled at the southern foot of Mount Nicholson. The only Feng Shui forest on Hong Kong island, it dates back to the city’s earliest days, featuring the highest number of plant species recorded in Hong Kong, including plants of great conservation value(3).

2018 August 1, Nan Fung Group, “8 Deep Water Bay Drive – Mindful living meets luxury in the midst of nature”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-02, World:

Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left. After passing Middle Gap, the righthand side of the track opens up while the left-hand side is protected by the slopes of Mount Nicholson.

2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=cPSiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT262:


Mount Cameron

Perhaps named after William Gordon Cameron.

Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.

1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist, volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206:

Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.

1993 August 29, “My search for the secret samurai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-03:

Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left.


Mount Gough

Named after Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough.

named-after

2. Polygata arillata, Hamilt.–Wight et Arn. Prod. vol. i. p.39.
Very rare. A shrub on Mount Gough, and another on Mount Victoria (since destroyed by the Chinese), were all that had been seen.

1851, Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, page 261:

I was instructed to deliver the 6-inch How shells and cartridges to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough. I arrived at Aberdeen headquarters, where the lorries with loading parties and guards were waiting.

2009 [1941 December 20], Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54:

Severn Road, which winds around Mount Gough just below Peak Road, is the most expensive residential street in the world - at HK$50,725 per square foot, up 72 per cent in a year.

2011 May 18, Alex Frew Mcmillan, “Magnificent heights of success”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-02:

Gough was buried in Dublin and an equestrian statue of him was erected in the Phoenix Park. It was later vandalised and moved to England. He was also commemorated by Mount Gough on Hong Kong island, which is now back in the hands of the Chinese.

2012, Joe O'Shea, “Sir Hugh Gough – Limerick's Opium Warlord”, in An Account of Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem: Concerning the affairs of the Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110:

Central and Western
Central and Western#English

A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Mount Kellett

After quickly loading, I arranged with Capt Otway that I take the lorries loaded with 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch shell to Mount Kellett and Sanatorium gun positions and that he move the last three lorries loaded with 6-inch How ammunition to a rendezvous point, near the vicinity of the Government Dairy Farm situated at Pokfulam, where I was to return and collect the lorries to deliver the ammunition to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough.

2009 June 1, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

Matilda International Hospital (1907–present)
Standing on Mount Kellett, overlooking Lamma Channel and South China Sea, Matilda Hospital is an historic building with handsome white Shanghai marble plaster walls, and was opened in 1907.

2006 January 1, Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130:

Details were recorded by an eyewitness, L. Gibbs, and published in the quarterly Hong Kong Naturalist, in 1931. In his account, Gibbs, who was living on Mount Kellett in 1893, vividly described the effects of several days of extreme cold on Hong Kong Island’s upper altitudes.

2016 April 2, Jason Wordie, “The big chill in Hong Kong: how 2016 compares to 1893, 1948”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-04-04, Opinion:

Will smirked to himself as he thought about them—Mount Kellett, Strawberry Hill and Mount Gough in the Peak district; Mount Cameron and Mount Nicholson enclosing Happy Valley, Mount Davis towering over the western approach to the harbour.

2023 January 19, Siobhan Daiko, The Flame Tree, Asolando Books, page https://books.google.com/books?id=fYadEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81:


Government Hill

The western part of the island is likewise divided from the centre by two ravines, both running from the same eminence - the one to the south terminating in a small undulating piece of country, on which the village of Pok-foo-lum is situated; other to the north, where it spreads out and forms Government Hill and the small flat beneath.

1843, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, page 112:

The buildings, erected around 1843, housed the first government offices on the 'Government Hill', between Lower Albert Road, seen on the right, and Battery Path below.

2002, Solomon Bard, Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

Hong Kong people deserve a better-protected Government Hill. It will be very sad if this valuable site is to become a 'Developer's Hill'.

2010 October 25, “Shopping mall should not be built on Government Hill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-24:

A hill in Central, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Victoria Peak

For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.

2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-08:

This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate:

A mountain in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


High West

Helicina Hungerfordiana, von Mildff. Found at High West (Hongkong) by Dr. Hungerford, Dr. von Müllendorff, and the writer; at Tung-chow (near Macao) by Dr. Hungerford and self.

1883, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 234:

On the 22nd of January a single bird was seen to pass low over Mount Kellett. Over the western slopes it was attacked and mobbed by four Kites as it crossed their nesting ground, and the five birds wheeled round one another for two or three minutes; the Eagle occasionally giving a series of seven or eight yelps, while the Kites were screaming with rage. The pursuit was abandoned as the Eagle passed over High West.

We paused at High West — the westernmost point of the trail — where a small park provides a perfect rest stop. From here the path turns south toward the Pok Fu Lam Reservoir.

2002 May 24, Katherine Tanko, “Get away from the bustle and take a walk on the wild side : The other view of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-09, Style:

The 230th have all three battalions in the Jardine's Lookout area, preparing to attack westwards with a final objective of High West.

2003, Tony Banham, “Phase V: Pushing the Line West and Encircling Stanley”, in Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 174:

Just west of Victoria Peak is the 494m High West, a mountain offering tremendous panoramic views with a fraction of the crowds. The only caveat? You have to hike to get here.

2017, Lonely Planet, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, Lonely Planet Hong Kong, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:

A footpath leads alongside a stream, then winds up to a car park above the garden. A minute or so from here, there is a vantage point with fine views to the western harbour, Lamma, and a nearby, slightly lower peak, High West.

2020 January 21, Martin Williams, “It’s a great time to explore Hong Kong with protests keeping tourists away, so put your hiking shoes on and get up The Peak”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-01-21, Travel & Leisure:


Tate's Cairn

Probably named after George Passman Tate.

Tea is cultivated in several places in the New Territories, e.g., in the Shing Mun valley and at the villages lying in the higher mountain valleys about Tate's Cairn and Buffalo Hill.

1906, Hong Kong. Botanical, Forestry Department, Annual Report of the Forestry Department of Hong Kong, page 9:

To the north of Kowloon Peak the ridge dips and rises to Middle Hill and Tate's Cairn, then bends sharply to the west and continues over Temple Hill, Lion Rock and Beacon Hill.

1936, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist:

The first installation was a Decca storm warning radar with a maximum range of 250 nautical miles based on top of Tate's Cairn. This equipment was used for nearly 20 years, until June 1979.

1983, Anthony Dyson, From Time Ball to Atomic Clock:

Of all the sights in the world, few can compare with a place Dave and I discovered called Tate's Cairn, a modest hill back in the New Territories whose summit commanded a majestic oversight of the then colony.

2012, Graham Fisher, “Innocents Abroad”, in A Kiss and a Cup of Tea, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:

The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)

2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-05, COMMODITIES NEWS:

A peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.


石排灣

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ pʰaɪ̯³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/sɛːk̚² pʰaːi̯²¹ waːn⁵⁵/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ pʰaɪ̯³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/sɛːk̚² pʰaːi̯²¹ waːn⁵⁵/


Ma On Shan

From Cantonese 馬鞍山 (maa⁵ on¹ saan¹), when the initial of the third syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The poster below, on a wall in the Ma On Shan district in northeastern Hong Kong, seems to liken front line protesters to the protagonists of a battle scene in a Renaissance oil painting.

2019 October 11, Mike Ives, “At Hong Kong Protests, Art That Imitates Life”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-11, Asia Pacific:

The next morning we looked over to where we had been the day before: on Ma On Shan’s buttress-like spurs and its 702-metre summit. The saddle between the two highest points, for which Ma On Shan (Horse Saddle Mountain) is named, stood out.

1995, Edward Stokes, “Sai Kung Peninsula”, in Hong Kong's Wild Places: An Environmental Exploration, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:

A peak in Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A village of Sha Tin Rural Committee, Sha Tin district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Hang Hau

The journey to Hang Hau took much longer than Paul had expected, and the longer he spent on the metro, the clearer it became to him what he had let himself in for, Hang Hau, of all places.

2015, Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Christine Lo, Whispering Shadows, Polygon Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 187:

“It’s very touching,” said Alice Lo, a 24-year-old web designer who lives with her mother in the Hang Hau neighborhood.

2019 September 2, Felix Tam, Marius Zaharia, Donny Kwok, Tom Westbrook, Thomas Peter, “Hong Kong neighborhoods echo with late night cries for freedom”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-09-02:

The Transport Department said at 1.08am that it had ended the temporary one-lane-two-way traffic arrangement on Clear Water Bay Road near Wing Lung Road in Hang Hau, where a slope about 30 metres long (98 feet) and 40 metres deep had collapsed.

2024 May 6, Jeffie Lam, “Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay Road fully reopens after landslide forced lane closure amid weekend downpour”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-06, Transport:

An area of Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A village of Hang Hau Rural Committee, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

坑口鄉事委員會 /坑口乡事委员会

haang¹ hau² hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Sai Kung North

Partial calque of Cantonese 西貢北 /西贡北 (“Sai Kung North”).

partial calque

In the Sai Kung North area, four nearby islands are associated with an old legend about a noted courtier of the early Ming period who fell foul of his imperial master.

2001, James Hayes, “Hong Kong and Shenzhen: Xinan (New Peace) County”, in South China Village Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 10:

An area of Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong, occupying the northern part of Sai Kung Peninsula.

When I arrived in the District Office at Tai Po, Rural Committees had recently been set up for Sha Tin and Sai Kung North.

2001, Denis Bray, “The Heung Yee Kuk and Reservoirs”, in Hong Kong Metamorphosis, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 95:

They blamed the rigid land zoning policy, which restricts infrastructure development, for forcing many remote villages to become deserted.
Sai Kung North rural committee chairman Li Yiu-ban said: “It’s a waste of our scarce land resources.”

2019 October 16, Kang-chung Ng, “How an abandoned village deep in a Hong Kong country park, inaccessible by road and poorly served by ferries, could be saved”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-16, Hong Kong economy:

A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Sha Tau Kok

From Cantonese 沙頭角 /沙头角 (saa¹ tau⁴ gok³), when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Eight British soldiers inadvertently drove across the Chinese frontier yesterday, were held for several hours and released early today, a Government spokesman said.
The incident occurred at the village of Sha Tau Kok, which straddles the border between Hong Kong's mainland New Territories and China.

1971 May 19, Reuters, “8 BRITISH SOLDIERS WANDER INTO CHINA”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-01, page 11:

Far East Consortium International Ltd has beat four other bidders including Sino Land and Wang On Group and won a tender for a piece of land in a restricted border area in Sha Tau Kok for HK$143 million ($18.44 million) or HK$1,104 per square feet.

2013 October 18, “PRESS DIGEST -Hong Kong - Oct 18”, in Reuters, sourced from Hong Kong, Ming Pao Daily News, archived from the original on 2024-11-08, Business:

A town in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A rural committee in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

沙頭角區鄉事委員會 /沙头角区乡事委员会

saa¹ tau⁴ gok³ keoi¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Ta Kwu Ling

From Cantonese 打鼓嶺 /打鼓岭 (daa² gu² leng⁵).

In Ta Kwu Ling, the residents no longer let their children play in the stream that runs through their village, let alone drink from it.

2013 June 29, Ada Lee, “Ta Kwu Ling villagers blame landfill for 'polluted' stream”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-10-12, Hong Kong:

Tao is not just a butcher, he is one of a dying breed. He is a local pig farmer and has been raising pigs on his farm in Ta Kwu Ling for more than 30 years.

2016 January 24, Achlys Xi, Karen Yu, Zoe So, “Local meat disappearing from Hong Kong tables”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-01-10:

On Tuesday morning, more than 100 officers wearing protective gear went to North East New Territories Landfill in Ta Kwu Ling, about a 15-minute drive from mainland China, to search for the missing body parts with excavators and shovels.

2023 February 28, Kanis Leung, “Police look for evidence for slain Hong Kong model’s case”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-02-28:

An area of North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

打鼓嶺區鄉事委員會 /打鼓岭区乡事委员会

daa² gu² leng⁵ keoi¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Shap Pat Heung

From Cantonese 十八鄉 /十八乡 (sap⁶ baat³ hoeng¹), when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Chan Wai-ming, a villager in the Shap Pat Heung district, told Reuters he was forced off a plot now held by Henderson Land.

2019 January 11, James Pomfret, Farah Master, “Corrected: Hong Kong's rural hinterland could hold key to chronic land crunch”, in Gerry Doyle, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-01-11, World News:

An area of Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

The decision means he would eventually have to surrender his chairmanship of the Shap Pat Heung rural committee, which ensures him a seat at the governing body of the influential rural organisation Heung Yee Kuk, a government-recognised advisory group representing New Territories villagers.

2018 April 29, Ng Kang-chung, “Long-time Hong Kong leader of rural villagers decides not to seek re-election”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-29, World:

A rural committee in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

十八鄉鄉事委員會 /十八乡乡事委员会

sap⁶ baat³ hoeng¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Kam Tin

Henderson Land Development, the city’s third-biggest private landowner, said on Friday that it was considering offering 100,000 square feet of farmland in Kam Tin, New Territories, to the government for seven years to build temporary housing to accommodate 10,000 residents.

2019 October 5, Georgina Lee, “Henderson Land to loan 100,000 sq ft of farmland to Hong Kong government for temporary housing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-04, Business/Companies:

A new rail link connecting Kam Tin in Yuen Long with Kowloon Tong was among six major infrastructure projects confirmed by Chief Executive John Lee in his first Policy Address on Wednesday.

2022 October 19, Peter Lee, “Hong Kong Policy Address: New rail link among 6 major infrastructure projects, public transport subsidy extended”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-03-05, Hong Kong:

If you have time to go farther afield, the artist invites you to visit Kam Tin. Away from the bustle and grind of the main city, the district is made up of small villages including Kat Hing Wai, a walled village built in the middle to late 1400s.

2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong Locals on Where to Eat, Drink and Play During Art Basel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22, Travel:


San Tin

A labour shortage and construction problems were blamed for the delayed debut of the mall in San Tin in the New Territories, import and export sector lawmaker Wong Ting-kwong said on Monday.

2015 November 30, Jeffie Lam, “Proposed Hong Kong border shopping centre meant to lure mainland China visitors delayed again”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-01-29, Hong Kong economy:


Pat Heung

Mr. Aitken assisting at Mass at a church in Pat Heung, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Mr. Aitken said he had immersed himself in the city’s Roman Catholic community as a way of feeding a spiritual hunger.

2017 September 9, Mike Ives, “Ex-Inmate Takes to Hong Kong’s Airwaves, and Prisoners Tune In”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-09, Asia Pacific:

They were then driven to a hillside near Tai Wo Tsuen village in the New Territories’ Pat Heung area, where they were pushed into a shipping container that had been turned into an office and used to store construction materials.

2021 December 9, “Hong Kong police arrest man over toddler, domestic helper kidnap attempt at Cyberport”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-09, Hong Kong:

Ocean Park has adopted a 35kg crocodile which was found in Pat Heung on Sunday. The 1.9 metre croc was transferred by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department to the park in Aberdeen that evening, with vets suggesting the animal is around four years old.

2023 May 2, Tom Grundy, “1.9 metre crocodile found in Hong Kong village seized and transferred to Ocean Park”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-02-18, Hong Kong:

八鄉鄉事委員會 /八乡乡事委员会

baat³ hoeng¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Ping Shan

From Cantonese 屏山 (ping⁴ saan¹), when the initial of the second syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Three particularly interesting study libraries in the New Territories date from the 19th century. Of these, the Kun Ting study library at Ping Shan near Yuen Long is the best of its type in Hong Kong.

1991, Sally Rodwell, “Settlement by the British”, in Historic Hong Kong: A Visitor's Guide, Hong Kong: Odyssey Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 88–89:

The road fences were removed six years ago to give trucks access to a one-acre car park, located near Fung Chi Village in Yuen Long. The majority of the land on which the car park operates is managed by Ping Shan Rural Committee Vice-chairman Tang Tat-sin.

2016 November 1, Ellie Ng, “Gov’t allowed Wang Chau car park to keep illegally built entrance amid rural resistance – report”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-08-22, Hong Kong:

The former Tat Tak School in Ping Shan was founded in 1931 as one of the New Territories’ first educational institutions, and the site has been the source of some of Hong Kong’s oldest ghost stories.

2023 August 28, Ashlyn Chak, “5 Hong Kong ghost stories and creepy tales, from the phantom of Bride’s Pool to the girl on the tracks at Yau Ma Tei MTR station”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, Arts & Culture:

屏山鄉事委員會 /屏山乡事委员会

ping⁴ saan¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Ha Tsuen

These landlords lived in Ha Tsuen but had extensive interests in shops, businesses, and factories outside their home village. The landlord-merchants described here rank well below the national elite of Qing or Republican times.

2018, Joseph W. Esherick, Mary Backus Rankin, Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 242:

“We understand that we need to scale down our operation in these industrial buildings, but these buildings are not even ready in time,” said Mat Ching Chi-wai, director of a 100,000 sq ft (9,290 square metres) logistics company at Ha Tsuen, Yuen Long.

2022 December 7, Edith Lin, “Hong Kong authorities reassure brownfield operators they may use sites for free until ‘actual eviction day’”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-07, Hong Kong economy:

The elected village representatives constitute the Ha Tsuen Rural Committee and they elect their own committee and chair-man.

Last week Kam’s truck was in Ha Tsuen, a remote village in northwest Hong Kong, close to the border with China.

2020 April 19, “Hong Kong’s piano van: Music lessons go mobile to beat virus”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-10-20:

Tang also disclosed that the manager of Yau kung^([sic – meaning Kung]) Tong, a family concern operating the number one oyster farm in Deep Bay, had lodged a complaint with the Ha Tsuen Rural Committee against members of a Chinese commune from across the bay who had taken over more than one-third of the farm.

2023, Angelina Chin, Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:


Cheung Chau

One morning, I took the ferry to Cheung Chau, a speck of land southwest of Hong Kong Island. There it was even easier to forget that just six miles away, barricades were being set up in anticipation of a major protest in Mong Kok.

2019 November 19, Sebastian Modak, “We Put Hong Kong on the 52 Places to Go List. Things Got Complicated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-19, Travel:

The first thing crowds saw Wednesday as they poured from the Cheung Chau island ferry onto a wide, waterfront promenade was a temporarily vegetarian McDonald’s. “Adhering to the rituals of the Bun Festival,” a small printed sign read, explaining that the restaurant would temporarily offer a McVeggie burger and products without meat, dairy or eggs.

2024 May 20, Andrew Genung, Billy H.C. Kwok, “The race up a Hong Kong tower covered in 40 feet of steamed buns”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-20, Travel:

An island of Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A market town of Cheung Chau Rural Committee, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

長洲鄉事委員會 /长洲乡事委员会

coeng⁴ zau¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²

A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Tai O

A short ride down the hill by bus is the fishing village of Tai O, once the source of most of the colony's salt, now surrounded by abandoned salt pans through which white herons carefully pick their way. With its houses on stilts over the numerous narrow creeks running through the town, Tai O seems untouched by Hong Kong's frenzied commercialism.

1991 October 13, Simon Elegant, “Hong Kong's Other Islands”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-10, Travel:

Villagers of flood-prone Tai O have begun preparations for what could be one of the strongest storms to hit Hong Kong since records began.

2018 September 15, Jennifer Creery, “Residents of flood-prone Tai O brace for Super Typhoon Mangkhut as some choose to stay put”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-10-12, Hong Kong:

A fishing town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Mui Wo

At the top of the fourth ridge the whole of Silvermine Bay (Mui Wo) opened up with its arc of white sand and wooden sampans bobbing near the shore.

1988 April 16, David Yeadon, “HONG KONG MEMORIES IN A MIST THE SERENE PLEASURES OF THE OUT ISLANDS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-18:

'After waiting for the government for the past several years, we've decided to take charge and help the area ourselves by organising more events to highlight the beauty of Mui Wo,' Wong says.
Wan Tung-yat, who heads the South Lantao Rural Committee, says: 'We've got to do this ourselves.'

2009 November 6, Ben Sin, “Village voices”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-15:

The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.

2012, Timothy Choy, “Air's Substantiations”, in Kaushik Sunder Rajan, editor, Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:

Residents of Mui Wo on Lantau Island took to Silvermine Bay Beach on Sunday to protest land reclamation plans, saying that the project will damage the environment and line the pockets of developers.[…]
At 6am on Sunday, 17 Mui Wo residents gathered on the beach and held up a banner reading: “Oppose the East Lantau Metropolis plan.” A joint demonstration was also held the same day on Lamma Island and Sai Wan, in support of Mui Wo residents.

2018 October 22, Jennifer Creery, “In Pictures: Mui Wo residents take to the beach in protest of Lantau reclamation plan”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-02-26, Hong Kong:

To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.

2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-22, Opinion:

A town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Tung Chung

Mainland Chinese tourists visited Tung Chung in large numbers on Sunday via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, sparking complaints from residents.
Shops and restaurants in Tung Chung, the area closest to the bridge’s pier, were filled with tourists, as residents raised concerns about overcrowding. According to government figures, 102,919 people entered or left Hong Kong via the bridge on Sunday.

2018 November 5, Kris Cheng, “Sunday tourist influx via new mega bridge sparks complaints from Tung Chung residents”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-02-04, Hong Kong:

But for the residents of the quiet Hong Kong suburb of Tung Chung, the initial fanfare following the opening of the world’s longest sea bridge last month has quickly given way to frustration.

2018 November 23, Amy Qin, Tiffany May, “For Some in Hong Kong, New Bridge Has a Downside: ‘That Kind of Tourist’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-14, ASIA PACIFIC:

As a young boy, Cheung remembers, he looked up to the police officers in his neighborhood of Tung Chung. But on Friday, he joined thousands of demonstrators at the police headquarters in downtown Hong Kong to call for a formal investigation into their use of tear gas and rubber bullets days earlier.

2019 June 21, Rebecca Tan, “He watched the Hong Kong protests from his Virginia apartment and decided he had to join”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-21, Local:

An area and town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

東涌鄉事委員會 /东涌乡事委员会

dung¹ cung¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


South Lantao

“Through participation in ecology-based sustainable recreational and educational programmes/activities/facilities, visitors can experience the [sic] nature and distinguishing features of different attractions, enjoy a diverse range of leisure and recreational experiences, [and] enhance their understanding on the natural resources and historical culture of South Lantau,” the paper claimed.

[2024 May 28, Tom Grundy, “Public views sought on gov’t plan to develop South Lantau with F&B, sports and recreation ‘eco’ facilities”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-05-29, Hong Kong:


Peng Chau

Far from the madding crowd of Hong Kong, though only 45 minutes away by ferry, is the island of Peng Chau, where you won't find peace and quiet either. But this weather-beaten little island (Peng Chau seems to get particularly pummeled by the later summer typhoons) offers an unhampered look at traditional Chinese sea-village life.

1985 December 8, William Schwalbe, “45 MINUTES FROM HONG KONG”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Section 10, page 19:

After leaving Kowloon, my first stop was tiny Peng Chau Island, where I had arranged to catch a boat for the crossing to Lantau.

1988 April 16, David Yeadon, “HONG KONG MEMORIES IN A MIST THE SERENE PLEASURES OF THE OUT ISLANDS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-18, Lifestyle:

In the past seven months, Charlotte Leung See-lok has grown closer to her community, thanks to her efforts volunteering with Happy Ageing in Peng Chau, a project which assists elderly residents on the island.

2024 January 28, Kathryn Giordano, “Happy Ageing in Peng Chau connects elderly with volunteers, building intergenerational bonds and support”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-28, Hong Kong:

A market town of Peng Chau Rural Committee, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Lamma Island

All of those confirmed dead and most of those injured are thought to have been on board a boat owned by the Hong Kong Electric company when it collided with the ferry near Lamma Island.

2012 October 2, “At least 37 killed in Hong Kong boat crash”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2015-09-12, China:

Lamma Island is a residential island two miles off the coast of Hong Kong Island.

2019 January 8, Tiffany May, “Oil Tanker Catches Fire in Hong Kong, Killing One and Leaving Two Missing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-01-08, Asia Pacific:

And last November, the fans of Mirror’s Jeremy Lau – better known as “Jer” – celebrated his birthday with an exhibition of artwork and an excursion to clean up Shek Pai Wan beach on Lamma Island.

2022 May 21, Peter Lee, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, tram or billboard: Hong Kong superfans reflect their devotion”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-01-28, Hong Kong:


南丫

/nän³⁵ jä⁵⁵/

/naːm²¹ aː⁵⁵/

/nän³⁵ jä⁵⁵/

/naːm²¹ aː⁵⁵/

(～島) an island of Islands district, Hong Kong


North Lamma

Two new clinics were nearing completion at the end of thee year under review : one at Tai Po, which was financed by thee Jockey Club; and one at Yung Shue Wan, on Lamma Island, thee greater part of the cost of which has been met by the North Lamma Rural Committee, with contributions from the Jockey Club and the General Chinese Charity Fund.

19.10.70
Lamma
Cheung Chau
Lantau
Places visited and persons met (i) Meet South Lamma Rural Committee at Sok Kwu Wan. (ii) Tour of Sok Kwu Wan area . (iii) Meet North Lamma Rural Committee at Yung Shu Wan.

A university graduate from Brisbane, Ms Chao is one of the three female indigenous villagers to have won a seat in the indigenous sector. Her victory in Ko Long Village on North Lamma was uncontested.

2003 August 24, Marcal Joanilho, “Women make gains in NT elections”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-04:

At the most recent meeting with the Island District Council in February 2005, Council members reiterated their support for the proposed helipad and requested that the works commence as early as possible at the currently proposed site. Community support for the project at the studied location was also reiterated at the North Lamma Rural Committee meeting in April 2005, and the Lamma Area Committee consultation in May 2005.

2005, Civil Engineering, Development Department, EIA Study for Helipad at Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island:

Chan Yau, a prominent member of the North Lamma Rural Committee, lives here. The New Village, as can be seen from the population and employment figures, is slightly less well-off than the old village, and their thrift (and possibly their needs, which are evidently greater than the Chow villages) can be seen in the intensive way they cultivate their fields.

2010, John Strickland, Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 146:


South Lamma

1970, UMELCO (Organization), Annual Report:

Also on the way: a 260-room hotel, centers for watersports and outdoor recreation, a new ferry pier and a two-story commercial block. The Conservancy Association’s Peter Lee Siu-man believes this will turn the island into another Discovery Bay. The current population of South Lamma is 500 residents.

2014 March 18, “New Lamma Developments Inbound?”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-15, Magazines:

In South Lamma, the most important Tin Hau Festival was held at the temple in Sok Kwu Wan. This festival was also marked, before the War, by puppet-opera. Here, as at Yung Shue Wan, the land and boat-people were equally prominent in the festivities. In South Lamma, the villagers of Luk Chau, Tung O, and Yung Shue Ha all attended the Sok Kwu Wan Festival, even though they had their own temples.

2020, Patrick H. Hase, “A Small Island in the Midst of the Sea: The History of Lamma Island”, in Settlement, Life, and Politics: Understanding the Traditional New Territories (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series), Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 405:


大浪灣

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ lɑŋ⁵¹ wän⁵⁵/

/taːi̯²² lɔːŋ²² waːn⁵⁵/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ lɑŋ⁵¹ wän⁵⁵/

/taːi̯²² lɔːŋ²² waːn⁵⁵/

Big Wave Bay (an area of Shek O, Southern district, Hong Kong)

Big Wave Bay (a bay of Hong Kong Island in Shek O, Southern district, Hong Kong)

Tai Long Wan (a bay of Lantau Island in Chi Ma Wan, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong)

Tai Long Wan (a bay of Lantau Island in Shek Pik, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong)

(～村) Tai Long Wan (a village of Tai O Rural Committee in Shek Pik, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong)

Tai Long Wan (a bay in Sai Kung, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


Tai Long Wan

From Cantonese 大浪灣 /大浪湾 (daai⁶ long⁶ waan¹). Doublet of Big Wave Bay.

A bay of Lantau Island in Chi Ma Wan, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A bay of Lantau Island in Shek Pik, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A village of Tai O Rural Committee in Shek Pik, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A bay in Sai Kung, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


大老山

/tä⁵¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

/tä⁵¹ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂän⁵⁵/

Tate's Cairn (a peak in Kowloon, Hong Kong)


美孚

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ fu⁵⁵/

/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ fu⁵⁵/

Mei Foo (an area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong)


Lai Chi Kok

Wong, 20, is spending the second night of his six-month sentence in Pik Uk high security prison for young male offenders. Law and Chow are at maximum security holding centre Lai Chi Kok.
Activists gathered at Lai Chi Kok Friday night including former lawmaker Lee Wing-tat who is one of the nine campaigners facing court next month.

2017 August 18, “Hong Kong activists fear more jailings after Wong imprisoned”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2020-11-12:

Congregating outside a detention centre in the western Kowloon district of Lai Chi Kok, the crowds held up signs with the words "In Solidarity We Stand", waved flags and demanded the release of all protesters.

2019 December 20, Mari Saito, Alun John, “Hong Kong protesters denounce police raid on fund-raising platform”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-03-24, World:

Photographers used to be able to catch a glimpse of activists in remand at another detention center in Lai Chi Kok as they were taken to and from court. Authorities started blocking this view in 2021 by making the detainees walk through a covered pathway.

2023 August 13, Louise Delmotte, “AP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-08-13, World News:

An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Mei Foo

From Cantonese 美孚 (mei⁵ fu¹). The area was previously a petroleum storage facility owned by English Mobil, who used this name for their business in the region and thus originated the placename.

Bob and Margaret had arrived on the mission field one year before us, in 1964. Like all new missionaries, they spent their first term learning Cantonese and helping in existing churches. Then, in 1971, they learned that Mobil Oil Corporation was building a large private housing development called Mei Foo, or "Beautiful and Prosperous New Village," on the waterfront west of Kowloon. The new city would be mammoth, with a planned population of 80,000. I had found a way to start relationships in Kwun Tong by entering David College as an English teacher; Bob and Margaret took the idea of education a step further and opened their own kindergarten on the second floor of one of the buildings in Mei Foo.

2003, Harry B. Ambacher, “New Strategies for a New Decade”, in Under the Shadow of the Dragon: The Growth of God's Church in Hong Kong, ABWE Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:

Do you think that in France, the property developers who want to sell a new luxury development in St. Tropez are going to show images of Mei Foo Sun Chun?

2007 June 21, “Voices: Thoughts on Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-03, Asia Pacific:

A recent judgment in a long-running dispute over plans to develop a site in North Point may offer hope to Mei Foo residents fighting a proposed high-rise building near their homes.

2011 April 5, Joyce Ng, “Court ruling offers hope to Mei Foo residents”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-12-29:

Residents of a housing estate in Mei Foo, Hong Kong, protest Feb. 2 against government plans to turn a nearby hotel into a coronavirus quarantine facility.

2020 March 1, Shibani Mahtani, “Coronavirus is fueling new protests in Hong Kong. Authorities aim to arrest their way out.”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-01:


大佛口

/tä⁵¹ fu̯ɔ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/taːi̯²² fɐt̚² hɐu̯³⁵/

/tä⁵¹ fu̯ɔ³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/taːi̯²² fɐt̚² hɐu̯³⁵/

Named after a Japanese company, 大佛洋行, whose store is located at the intersection. Folk etymology suggests named after a different company's logo with a buddha statue on it.

(colloquial) the area around the intersection between Hennessy Road and Queen's Road East in Wan Chai, Hong Kong


鵝頸橋

ㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄑㄧㄠˊ

ㄜˊ ㄐㄧㄥˇ ㄑㄧㄠˊ

/ˀɤ³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/ŋɔː²¹ kɛːŋ³⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

/ˀɤ³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/ŋɔː²¹ kɛːŋ³⁵ kʰiːu̯²¹/

(Hong Kong, colloquial) Bowrington Bridge (a former bridge in Hong Kong)

(Hong Kong, colloquial, proscribed) Canal Road Flyover (a flyover in Hong Kong)


京士柏

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kɪŋ⁵⁵ siː²² pʰaːk̚³/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kɪŋ⁵⁵ siː²² pʰaːk̚³/

King's Park (an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong)


格仔山

/kaːk̚³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

/kaːk̚³ t͡sɐi̯³⁵ saːn⁵⁵/

Named after red and white checkerboard located on the side of hill, which helped guide airline pilots when landing at the now-closed Kai Tak Airport.

Checkerboard Hill (a hill in Kowloon, Hong Kong)


Po Toi

An island group of Islands district, Hong Kong.

Mr Blair-Kerr went on to say that the place where the offence occurred was just off Brick Hill, or Wong Chuk Hang, near Aberdeen. The complainant, Chan For-tai, would give evidence that he, his wife, mother and two brothers, set off in their fishing junk about 2 a.m., on January 5 to fish. They sailed south from Aberdeen, then eastwards towards Wong Chuk Hang, and were heading for an island further south, Po Toi.

1954 April 5, “Sequel To Raid On Aberdeen Fishing Junk”, in China Mail, number 35783, →OCLC, page 10, column 6:

The cargo ship Zhong Xing 2 sank after the collision with the 300-m- (984-ft-) long Marshall Islands-registered MOL Motivator about two nautical miles southwest of Po Toi Island, a spokeswoman of the Hong Kong Maritime Department said.

2014 May 5, Alice Woodhouse, “Eleven crew missing after ships collide off Hong Kong”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-11-30:

One person was rescued following the 3 a.m. accident about three miles off Po Toi Island, which is just southeast of Hong Kong Island in the South China Sea.

2014 May 5, Gerry Mullany, Keith Bradsher, “11 Missing After Cargo Ships Collide Near Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-05-05, Asia Pacific:

An island of Po Toi, Islands district, Hong Kong.


Deep Bay

They are the refugees who swim from China across the waters of Deep Bay to Hong Kong. The escaping refugees spend four to eight hours in the water, dodging Chinese gunboats and battling the tides. They usually swim to a beacon about midway between the two shores and then make for another beacon on the Hong Kong shoreline.
The large oysters of Laufaushan, which are cultivated, in beds extending far out into Deep Bay, are the delight of Hong Kong gourmets and the despair of the refugees because the refugees land with their arms and legs cut and bleeding from crawling across the oyster beds.

1972 June 22, Ian Stewart, “Chinese Refugees Swim Across a Perilous Bay to Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-26, page 2:

After training themselves in public swimming pools or commune reservoirs, some of them swam across Deep Bay or Mirs Bay to reach Hong Kong.

1979 March 22, Jay Matthews, “Thousands of Chinese Are Crossing Over Into Hong Kong”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

An alliance of environmental groups has urged the Hong Kong government to conduct an ecological study before taking forward plans for the Northern Metropolis megaproject so as to avoid the loss of wetlands.
It also called for officials to double to 3,000 hectares (7,413 acres) the size of the Ramsar wetlands site on Deep Bay’s southern shore, a natural habitat in Yuen Long district protected by international treaty.

2021 December 14, Nadia Lam, “Hong Kong officials urged to conduct ecological study on Deep Bay wetlands before proceeding with Northern Metropolis”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-14, Health & Environment:

A bay of Hong Kong, between Hong Kong and Shenzhen.


Shek Ngau Chau

From Cantonese 石牛洲, when the initial of the first syllable was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the second operation, police arrested 15 male asylum seekers after two speedboats sneaked into Hong Kong from the mainland and left them on Shek Ngau Chau in northeast Hong Kong waters and Tuen Mun before dawn.
Nine of the men, who were Pakistanis, were initially found by a marine police launch on Shek Ngau Chau at about 5.26am.

2009 October 22, Clifford Lo, “32 IIs caught on 7 boats in separate operations”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-28, Latest:

From Point 21, joining in sequential straight lines through the following 10 points and Point 1:
1. the coordinates Latitude of 22° 21' 54.5" N, Longitude 114°30'08.8" E (Point 22);
2. the mid-point between the most protruding tip on the coastline north of Dalu Wan and the beacon on Shek Ngau Chau (Point 23, Latitude 22°28'07.4" N, Longitude 114°27'17.6" E);[…]

2011 August [1997], “The Map of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China [中华人民共和国香港特别行政区行政区域图]”, in 陈丽红, editor, Laws and Regulations of the People's Republic of China: Constitutional Law [中华人民共和国法律法规汇编：宪法卷], China Legal Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 315:

由21号点与一下10点和1号点直线连城：
1.北纬22°21'54.5"，东经114°30'08.8"（22号点）；
2.大鹿湾北面海岸线最突出部至石牛洲导航灯间的中点（23号点，北纬22°28'07.4"，东经114°27'17.6"）；[…]


Cửu Long

[kɨw˧˨ lɔŋ˧˧]

[kɨw˨˩˦ lawŋ͡m˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 九龍. Literally, “nine dragons”.


連儂牆

ㄌㄧㄢˊ ㄋㄨㄥˊ ㄑㄧㄤˊ

ㄌㄧㄢˊ ㄋㄨㄥˊ ㄑㄧㄤˊ

/li̯ɛn³⁵ nʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/liːn²¹ nʊŋ²¹ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

/li̯ɛn³⁵ nʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

/liːn²¹ nʊŋ²¹ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

Any of a number of similar walls in Hong Kong created by pro-democracy activists


馬頭涌

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

/maː¹³ tʰɐu̯²¹ t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

/maː¹³ tʰɐu̯²¹ t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

Ma Tau Chung (an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong)


對面海

ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄞˇ

ㄉㄨㄟˋ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄞˇ

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ mi̯ɛn⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɵy̯³³ miːn²² hɔːi̯³⁵/

/tu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ mi̯ɛn⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tɵy̯³³ miːn²² hɔːi̯³⁵/

Tui Min Hoi (an area of Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


十四鄉

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ sz̩⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/sɐp̚² sei̯³³ hœːŋ⁵⁵/

/ʂʐ̩³⁵ sz̩⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/sɐp̚² sei̯³³ hœːŋ⁵⁵/

Shap Sze Heung (an area of Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


牛潭尾

ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄊㄢˊ ㄨㄟˇ

ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄊㄢˊ ㄨㄟˇ

/ni̯oʊ̯³⁵ tʰän³⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ŋɐu̯²¹ tʰaːm²¹ mei̯¹³/

/ni̯oʊ̯³⁵ tʰän³⁵ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ŋɐu̯²¹ tʰaːm²¹ mei̯¹³/

Ngau Tam Mei (a village in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


河上鄉

/xɤ³⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/hɔː²¹ sœːŋ²² hœːŋ⁵⁵/

/xɤ³⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/

/hɔː²¹ sœːŋ²² hœːŋ⁵⁵/

Ho Sheung Heung (a village in the North District, New Territories, Hong Kong)


Ma Tau Chung

At last Ti Cheng and Ti Ping and their soldiers and ministers reached Mirs Bay, just east of Hong Kong. From there they moved to Lantao and a little later to Ma Tau Chung in Kowloon. At Ma Tau Chung a palace was built for the young Emperor Ti Cheng. On a nearby hill the Emperor and his brother used to shelter in the shade of a great rock.

1965, Gwenneth Stokes, “The Last Days of the Sung”, in Hong Kong in History, Hong Kong: Government Printer, →OCLC, page 21:

Soon the link to the Indian prison camp at Ma Tau Chung was exposed, then the drivers to the other camps were hauled in for questioning.

1994 October 29, “Death of a spy ring”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-05, Latest:


白石角

/paɪ̯³⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paːk̚² sɛːk̚² kɔːk̚³/

/paɪ̯³⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/paːk̚² sɛːk̚² kɔːk̚³/

Pak Shek Kok (an area of Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


和宜合

/xɤ³⁵ i³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/wɔː²¹ jiː²¹ hɐp̚²/

/xɤ³⁵ i³⁵ xɤ³⁵/

/wɔː²¹ jiː²¹ hɐp̚²/

Wo Yi Hop (an area of Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


烏鴉落陽

ㄨ ㄧㄚ ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄧㄤˊ

ㄨ ㄧㄚ ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄧㄤˊ

/u⁵⁵ jä⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ aː⁵⁵ lɔːk̚² jœːŋ²¹/

/u⁵⁵ jä⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ⁵¹ jɑŋ³⁵/

/wuː⁵⁵ aː⁵⁵ lɔːk̚² jœːŋ²¹/

Wu Nga Lok Yeung
Wu Nga Lok Yeung#English

Wu Nga Lok Yeung (a place in Fanling, North district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


馬屎洲

/mä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

/maː¹³ siː³⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

/mä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

/maː¹³ siː³⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

Ma Shi Chau (an island of Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


亞皆老街

ㄧㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝ ㄌㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄝ

ㄧㄚˋ ㄐㄧㄝ ㄌㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄝ

/jä⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/

/aː³³ kaːi̯⁵⁵ lou̯¹³ kaːi̯⁵⁵/

/jä⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/

/aː³³ kaːi̯⁵⁵ lou̯¹³ kaːi̯⁵⁵/

Argyle Street
w:Argyle Street, Hong Kong


Sandy Bay

Liu Shui-ping, a three-year-old patient at the Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital in Sandy Bay, Pok Fu Lam, receives a special Christmas gift yesterday - a visit by 'dog doctor' Billy at the hospital's annual Christmas party.

2006 December 25, “Santa's little helper”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, World:

A bay in Pok Fu Lam, Southern district, Hong Kong.


大口環

ㄉㄚˋ ㄎㄡˇ ㄏㄨㄢˊ

ㄉㄚˋ ㄎㄡˇ ㄏㄨㄢˊ

/tä⁵¹ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯än³⁵/

/taːi̯²² hɐu̯³⁵ waːn²¹/

/tä⁵¹ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯än³⁵/

/taːi̯²² hɐu̯³⁵ waːn²¹/

Sandy Bay (a bay in Pok Fu Lam, Southern district, Hong Kong)


雞寮

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/kɐi̯⁵⁵ liːu̯²¹/

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/kɐi̯⁵⁵ liːu̯²¹/

Kai Liu (the area in Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong where Tsui Ping Estate is located)


川龍

/t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

/t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ lʊŋ²¹/

Named after 龍川／龙川 (Lóngchuān), the home county of the original inhabitants of the village.

Chuen Lung (a village of Tsuen Wan Rural Committee, Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong)


葵興

→ English: (via Cantonese) Kwai Hing

/kʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷʰɐi̯²¹ hɪŋ⁵⁵/

/kʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/kʷʰɐi̯²¹ hɪŋ⁵⁵/

Kwai Hing (an area of Kwai Chung, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong)


Greater Bay Area

Hong Kong has also proposed a program, Wealth Management Connect, that would give mainland residents in the southern region known as the Greater Bay Area the ability to invest in Hong Kong-based hedge funds and investment firms.

2021 April 7, Alexandra Stevenson, “Hong Kong Courts the Rich as China Tightens Its Grip”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-07, Today in Business:

special administrative region
special administrative region

A geographic region and megalopolis in South China, consisting of nine cities of the province of Guangdong (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Huizhou, and Zhaoqing) and two special administrative regions: Hong Kong and Macau.


糧船灣

ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄨㄢ

ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄨㄢ

Лянчуаньвань

/li̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/lœːŋ²¹ syːn²¹ waːn⁵⁵/

/li̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵ wän⁵⁵/

/lœːŋ²¹ syːn²¹ waːn⁵⁵/

(～洲) High Island (a former island in Hong Kong, now connected to the Sai Kung Peninsula)


Lo Wu

Any passengers travelling beyond Lo Wu must alight there for examination by British Constabulary (the actual personnel may be Chinese) and then walk over the river bridge to the Chinese Government posts.

1954 October, 'Boscawen', “The Kowloon-Canton Railway of Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 712:

An area in the New Territories of Hong Kong, on the border with China proper.


蘇豪

/su⁵⁵ xɑʊ̯³⁵/

/su⁵⁵ xɑʊ̯³⁵/

(～區) SoHo (a neighbourhood of Central and Western district, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong)