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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]
The boundary of Kowloon East is not strictly defined and hence varies. While traditionally the Kowloon–Canton Railway (now the East Rail line) serves as the separation of eastern and western part, the Kowloon City District, located at the east of the railway, was part of the Kowloon West Legislative Council constituency in order to balance the population between the two halves.
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 ...
Prince Edward Road West is a road between Tai Kok Tsui, Mong Kok, Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City. This road was originally named Edward Avenue ( 宜華徑 ) before 1924. It was later renamed Prince Edward Road ( 英皇子道 ) in 1924, and in 1958 the Chinese name was changed from what was literally "British Royal Prince Road" to a new name ...
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.
This is a list of cities and towns in Lebanon [1] distributed according to district. There are total 1000 districts. 56.21% of the population lives in 19 cities and towns, which gives the average 2,158 people per town.
Kowloon Walled City (Chinese: 九龍寨城) [a] was an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City of former British Hong Kong. Built as an imperial Chinese military fort , the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898.
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.