Sha Tau Kok River
The Sha Tau Kok River, is a river between Hong Kong and Shenzhen serving as a part of the land border between Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China. Along with Sham Chun River and Chung Ying Street, the river serves as the natural boundary between the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong and the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: river on the border between Hong Kong and mainland China
- Also known as: “Sha Tau Kok River/Shatoujiao River”, “Sha-t’ou”, “Sha-t’ou-chiao”, “Shatoujiao”, and “Shatoujiao River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shatoujiao Port and Shatoujiao.
Shatoujiao Port
Border checkpoint
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Shatoujiao Port is a border checkpoint.
Shatoujiao
Metro station
Photo: Lhzss8, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shatoujiao station is a station on Line 8 of the Shenzhen Metro. It opened on 28 October 2020.
Haishan
Metro station
Photo: Lhzss8, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Haishan station is a station on Line 8 of the Shenzhen Metro. It opened on 28 October 2020.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haishan Subdistrict and Sha Tau Kok.
Haishan Subdistrict
Suburb
The sub-provincial municipality of Shenzhen in Guangdong, China is divided into nine districts and one management new area. Shenzhen is further divided into 74 subdistricts since the latest plan in October 2016.
Sha Tau Kok
Town
Sha Tau Kok is a closed town in North District, Hong Kong. It is the last remaining major settlement in the Frontier Closed Area and is Hong Kong's northernmost town.
Sha Tau Kok River
- Category: river
- Location: Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Sha Tau Kok River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Sha Tau Kok River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Sha Tau Kok”
- Chinese: “沙头角”
- Chinese: “沙头角河”
- Chinese: “沙頭角河”
- Dutch: “Sha Tau Kok River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sha Tau Kok”
- Italian: “Fiume Sha Tau Kok”
- Italian: “Sha Tau Kok”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Sa Đầu Giác”
- Welsh: “Afon Sha Tau Kok”
- Yue Chinese: “Sha Tau Kok River”
- Yue Chinese: “沙頭角河”
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