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1 | Sheung Wan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 22.2852 / 114.1514 | Sheung Wan is an area in Hong Kong, located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island, between Central and Sai Ying Pun. Administratively, it is part of the Central and Western District. The name can be variously interpreted as Upper District (occupying relatively high ground compared to Central and Wan (...) | |
2 | ![]() | Central and Western District ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 22.2867 / 114.155 | The Central and Western District located on northern part of Hong Kong Island is one of the 18 administrative districts of Hong Kong. It had a population of 243 266 in 2016. The district has the most educated residents with the second highest income and the third lowest population due to its (...) |
3 | ![]() | Tsing Yi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 138 Lat/Lng : 22.3478 / 114.1 | Tsing Yi , sometimes referred to as Tsing Yi Island , is an island in the urban area of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan. With an area of 10.69 km², the island has extended drastically by reclamation along almost all its natural shore and the annexation of Nga (...) |
4 | Queen's Road, Hong Kong ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 22.2808 / 114.156 | Queen's Road is a collection of roads along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong, within the limit of Victoria City. It was the first road in Hong Kong, constructed by the British between 1841 and 1843, spanning across Victoria City from Shek Tong Tsui to Wan Chai (...) | |
5 | Victoria, Hong Kong ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 22.2835 / 114.1551 | The City of Victoria, often called Victoria City or simply Victoria, was the de facto capital of Hong Kong during the British colonial period."". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 13 May 2016. It was initially named Queenstown but was soon known as Victoria (...) | |
6 | Sai Wan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 22.285 / 114.132 | Sai Wan (Western District or simply Western) is an area in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong that corresponds to Sai Ying Pun, Shek Tong Tsui, Belcher Bay and Kennedy Town. However, Some Hong Kong people consider Kennedy Town as the only part of Sai Wan. It formed part of the City of Victoria (...) | |
7 | Sai Ying Pun ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 22.2859 / 114.1428 | Sai Ying Pun is an area in Western District, on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is administratively part of the Central and Western District. (...) | |
8 | Central, Hong Kong ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 22.2819 / 114.1581 | Central (also Central District;) is the central business district of Hong Kong. It is located in Central and Western District, on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, across Victoria Harbour from Tsim Sha Tsui, the southernmost point of Kowloon Peninsula (...) | |
9 | Shek Tong Tsui ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 22.2833 / 114.1333 | Shek Tong Tsui is an area in Sai Wan on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. Administratively, it belongs to the Central and Western District. This district is bounded north by the Victoria Harbour, south by Pokfulam Road and Third Street, and west by the intersection of Queen's Road West and Belcher's (...) | |
10 | Hung Hom station ![]() FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 22.3029 / 114.1816 | Hung Hom , referred to by China Railway as Jiulong (Kowloon) , is an interchange station of the East Rail Line and West Rail Line in Hong Kong. It is Hong Kong's first station serving cross-border trains to Mainland China (The other station being West Kowloon Station, serving Guangzhou South, (...) | |
11 | Hong Kong Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 22.2588 / 114.1911 | Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. It has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km², . The island had a population of about 3,000 inhabitants scattered in a dozen fishing villages when it was occupied by the United Kingdom in the First Opium War (...) | |
12 | Sai Ying Pun station ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 22.2856 / 114.1427 | Sai Ying Pun is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Island Line. It serves the neighbourhood of Sai Ying Pun and the western part of Mid-Levels in northwestern Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Sai Ying Pun station was opened on 29 March 2015, completing the West Island Line extension of the Island Line (...) | |
13 | Bonham Strand ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 22.2853 / 114.1528 | Bonham Strand (Chinese: 文咸街) is a combination of two streets in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong: Bonham Strand and Bonham Strand West . As the name suggested, it was a strand and close to shore in the past though it is pretty far from the seafront after several reclamations over a hundred years (...) | |
14 | Aberdeen Street ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 22.2835 / 114.1525 | Aberdeen Street is a border street dividing Sheung Wan and Central on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It ascends from Queen's Road Central to Caine Road in the Mid-levels. The street is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary at the time of the cession of Hong Kong (...) | |
15 | Possession Street ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 22.286 / 114.1483 | Possession Street is a street in Sheung Wan, from Queen's Road West to Hollywood Road, on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The street marks the boundary of Queen's Road West and Queen's Road Central. (...) | |
16 | Shing Wong Street ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 22.2841 / 114.1516 | Shing Wong Street is a street on the hill slope of Sheung Wan and Mid-levels, Hong Kong. The street extends from Gough Street at its lowest to Caine Road highest. The street is one of ladder streets in Hong Kong, made of stone steps, in the section between Hollywood Road and Caine Road (...) | |
17 | Tsan Yuk Hospital ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 22.2858 / 114.1435 | Tsan Yuk Hospital , located on 30 Hospital Road, Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island, is a public hospital in Hong Kong specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. It also operates as a teaching and training hospital for the medical and nursing students of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the (...) | |