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Kowloon c. 1868, depicting the Qing-era Kowloon Walled City and Lion Rock (in the background) Map of Kowloon in 1915 Hong Kong's old airport, Kai Tak, was located in Kowloon Bay. The part of Kowloon south of Boundary Street, together with Stonecutters Island, was ceded by Qing China to the United Kingdom under the Convention of Peking of 1860 ...
Kowloon Walled City project, Wall Street Journal; Rare Maps Show Life in Hong Kong's Vice-Filled 'Walled City' "Dark tower of dreams: Inside the Walled City of Kowloon", CBC Ideas. CBC Radio One. 18 October 2017. (Retrieved 12 July 2018.) "The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City" Atlas Obscura. 06 January 2020 (Retrieved 24 September 2022.)
The following are incomplete lists of expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong.. Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape.
Map of the 13 Streets area. It consists of 11 parallel short streets, bordered by Kowloon City Road (west), To Kwa Wan Road (east), Mok Cheong Street (north) and Ma Tau Kok Road (south). Their names are mostly related to auspicious animals, namely dragon, phoenix, deer, unicorn, eagle, lark, egret, cicada, swallow, horse and crane. [4]
Kowloon City district is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the city of Kowloon and cut through by Boundary Street. It had a population of 381,352 in 2001, and increased to 418,732 in 2016. [4] The district has the third most educated residents while its residents enjoy the highest income in Kowloon.
Aerial view of Kowloon City. Kowloon City is an area in New Kowloon, Hong Kong.It is part of Kowloon City District.. Compared with the council area of Kowloon City District, the Kowloon City area is vaguely bounded in the south by Prince Edward Road West and Prince Edward Road East, north with Lok Fu, east with Kai Tak Nullah and west with Kowloon Tsai.
The street previously marked the boundary between the southern part of Kowloon, ceded by the Qing dynasty to Great Britain in 1860 along with Stonecutters Island, and the northern part of Kowloon (New Kowloon) (which remained part of China until it was leased as part of the New Territories to the United Kingdom in 1898 for 99 years under the Second Convention of Peking). [1]
The eastern end of Middle Road was once dominated by the 10-storey Middle Road Multi-storey Car Park, which upon opening on 11 January 1965 was the largest multi-storey car park in Hong Kong. [6] [7] The car park stood directly over part of Middle Road, and was home to the Yau Tsim District Office before