Aberdeen

Aberdeen
Aberdeen (disambiguation)
Old Aberdeen

The first element is either Scottish Gaelic aber (“river mouth”) or Pictish aber (“confluence”), both from Proto-Celtic *abū (“river”). The second element is Don (“river in Scotland”) (the site of Old Aberdeen). Written Aberdon circa 1187 and Aberden circa 1214.
The area and town in Hong Kong is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.

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In Aberdeen, a fishing village of 12,000 fishermen who live on more than 3,000 sampans, we were transported on a rickety sampan through the mazelike sea community; on these modest wooden boats, large families, dogs, the day's catch of drying fish and television antennas all co-exist.

1985 October 27, Marcia Seligson, “HONG KONG, MADE TO ORDER”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Section 10, page 15:

Police Launch No. 32 sliced through the murky gray-green waters of Aberdeen, navigating the narrow path between fishing junks, sampan taxis and the gaudy Jumbo floating seafood restaurant.

1997 May 4, Keith B. Richburg, “China to Buttress Hong Kong Police -- but to What End?”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Washington Post Foreign Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1997-08-09, page A20:

An area and town in Southern district, Hong Kong.


Stanley

From places in England, Old English stān (“stone”) + lēah (“meadow”). Equivalent to stone + -ley (“lea”).
* The given name has also been used as an anglicisation of Stanisław, Stanislav and related names.
The coastal town in Hong Kong is named after Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.

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From Central, hop on a double-decker bus (No. 6, 6X or 66) to the former fishing village of Stanley (about 8 Hong Kong dollars one way). The ride will take you from the commercial district, over the hills (or through a tunnel), to the South Side, a residential area with splendid beaches, Riviera-style corniches and wide-open views of the South China Sea.

2007 April 8, Ann M. Morrison, “36 Hours in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-04-22, Travel:

As you stroll through the streets of Stanley, you’ll be mesmerised by its rich history. This charming small town holds a significant place in Hong Kong’s past, as it was the earliest administrative centre for the British government before the bustling Central District, formerly known as Victoria City, was established.

2024 January 11, “Stanley: where timeless elegance meets modern luxury”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-11, Lifestyle:

Any of several places, outside England named for persons with the surname:

A coastal town and area in Southern district, Hong Kong


西貢

First attested in the Map of the San On District [1866].

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/sɐi̯⁵⁵ kʊŋ³³/

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鴨巴甸

/jä⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵ ti̯ɛn⁵¹/

/aːp̚³ paː⁵⁵ tiːn⁵⁵/

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Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island#English

(chiefly Cantonese) Transliteration of Aberdeen:

(Hong Kong) Aberdeen (a town and harbour in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong), now known as 香港仔 (hoeng¹ gong² zai²)


Tsing Yi

A town in Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Tin Shui Wai

From Cantonese 天水圍／天水围 (tin¹ seoi² wai⁴).

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:

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


Sheung Shui

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.


Fanling

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:


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.


Tsuen Wan

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


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.


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.


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.


Yuen Long

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

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:


Sha Tin

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 22 Sepember 2019, 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.


Ma On Shan

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:


Sha Tau Kok

From Cantonese 沙頭角／沙头角 (saa¹ tau⁴ gok³).

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.


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.


Mui Wo

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.


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.


Cheung Chau

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

长洲乡事委员会

coeng⁴ zau¹ hoeng¹ si⁶ wai² jyun⁴ wui⁶⁻²


Peng Chau

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