Tai Po District
Tai Po District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the New Territories. The suburban district covers the areas of Tai Po New Town, Tai Po Tau, Tai Po Kau, Hong Lok Yuen, Ting Kok, Plover Cove, Lam Tsuen Valley, Tai Mei Tuk and other…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: districts of Hong Kong with 294,000 residents
- Description: district in Hong Kong, China
- Also known as: “Ta-p’u”, “Tai Po Area”, and “TP”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hong Kong Railway Museum and Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital.
Hong Kong Railway Museum
Museum
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The Hong Kong Railway Museum is a railway museum in Tai Po, Hong Kong. It is now under the management of the Leisure and Cultural Service Department. Opened on 20 December 1985, it is located at the site where the old Tai Po Market railway station was built in 1913.
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Chong Fat, Public domain.
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital is an acute district general hospital managed under the New Territories East Cluster of the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong.
Green Hub
Museum
The Old Tai Po Police Station is a former Hong Kong police station at the top of Tai Po Wan Tau Tong Hill. It is located at No. 11 Wan Tau Kok Lane, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong, near the Old District Office North.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tai Po and Fanling.
Tai Po
Town
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Tai Po is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It refers to the vicinity of the traditional market towns in the area presently known as Tai Po Old Market or Tai Po Kau Hui on the north of Lam Tsuen River and the Tai Po Hui on Fu Shin Street on the south of the Lam Tsuen River, near the old Tai Po Market railway station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
Fanling
Town
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Fanling is a town in the New Territories East of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the North District. Fanling Town is the main settlement of the Fanling area. Fanling is situated 7 km northwest of Tai Po District.
Lam Tsuen Valley
Suburb
Lam Tsuen Valley is situated in the New Territories, Hong Kong, west of Tai Po New Town. Lam Tsuen and other villages are located in the valley. The Lam Tsuen River and its branches collect water from nearby hills.
Tai Po District
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tai Po District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاي بو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تاي بو”
- Basque: “Tai Po barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Тай По”
- Catalan: “Tai Po”
- Cebuano: “Tai Po District”
- Chinese: “Tāi-po͘-khu”
- Chinese: “大埔”
- Chinese: “大埔区”
- Chinese: “大埔區”
- Dutch: “Tai Po District”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة تاى بو”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Tai Po”
- French: “Tai Po”
- German: “Tai Po District”
- German: “Tai Po”
- Hakka Chinese: “Thai-pu-khî”
- Hebrew: “טאי פו”
- Hungarian: “Tai Po”
- Hungarian: “Tájpou”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Tai Po”
- Italian: “distretto di Tai Po”
- Italian: “Distretto di Tai Po”
- Japanese: “タイポ区”
- Japanese: “大埔区”
- Korean: “다이보구”
- Korean: “다이포우 구”
- Korean: “다푸 구”
- Korean: “다푸구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-po͘-khu”
- Persian: “منطقه تای پو”
- Polish: “Tai Po”
- Portuguese: “Tai Po”
- Russian: “Тай-По”
- Russian: “Тайпоу”
- Slovenian: “Tai Po”
- Spanish: “Tai Po District”
- Spanish: “Tai Po”
- Swedish: “Tai Po”
- Tamil: “டய் போ மாவட்டம்”
- Turkish: “Tai Po”
- Urdu: “تائی پو ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Đại Bộ, Hồng Kông”
- Vietnamese: “Đại Bộ”
- Yue Chinese: “大埔區”
- “Daai6 bou3 keoi1”
- “Daaih bou kēui”
- “Tai Po”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tai Po Market station and Tai Wo station.
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