East Asia
Hong Kong
Sha Tin District

Shatin

Sha Tin, also spelt Shatin, is a neighbourhood along in the eastern , . Administratively, it is part of the .
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  • Type: Suburb with 495,000 residents
  • Description: area in Sha Tin District, Hong Kong
  • Also known as: “Sha Tin”, “ST”, and “沙田 Shatin”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Sha Tin Centre.

Museum
Photo: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0.
is a public of history, art and culture in Sha Tin, , located beside the . The museum opened on 16 December 2000.

Shopping center
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Sha Tin Airfield was a small military airfield in Sha Tin, , , which had a single concrete runway. The airfield was located along the and looked out to .

Shopping center
Photo: WiNG, CC BY 3.0.
is a shopping mall in the town centre of Sha Tin, Hong Kong. Developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties, it was the biggest shopping centre in the when it was completed in the early 1980s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wong Tai Sin and Kowloon City.

Suburb
Photo: Maxfield, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area in , , Hong Kong. The area was named after the . The area was previously known as or Chuk Un, prior to the intake of two Estates. is situated 4½ km south of Shatin.

Suburb
Photo: Kwanyatsw, CC BY 2.5.
is an in , . It is part of . Compared with the council area of , the area is vaguely bounded in the south by Prince Edward Road West and Prince Edward Road East, north with , east with Kai Tak Nullah and west with Kowloon Tsai. is situated 6 km south of Shatin.

Town
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a new town along the eastern coast of in the of . The neighbourhood takes its name from the , which are partially located within the town. is situated 6 km northeast of Shatin.

Shatin

Latitude
22.3816° or 22° 22′ 54″ north
Longitude
114.1905° or 114° 11′ 26″ east
Population
495,000
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HK STN
Open location code
7PJP95JR+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316731268
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1818920
Wiki­data ID
Q855463
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Yue Chinese—“Shatin” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Сатхінь”
  • Cebuano: “Sha Tin”
  • Chinese: “沙田”
  • Danish: “Sha Tin”
  • Dutch: “Sha Tin”
  • French: “Sha Tin”
  • German: “Sha Tin New Town”
  • German: “Sha Tin”
  • German: “Shatin”
  • Hebrew: “שא טין”
  • Hebrew: “שאטין”
  • Italian: “Sha Tin”
  • Japanese: “サーティン”
  • Japanese: “シャーティン”
  • Japanese: “沙田”
  • Korean: “사톈”
  • Korean: “사틴”
  • Literary Chinese: “沙田”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sha Tin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shatin”
  • Norwegian: “Shatin”
  • Persian: “شا تین”
  • Serbian: “Ша Тин”
  • Slovenian: “Sha Tin”
  • Slovenian: “Shatin”
  • Slovenian: “ST”
  • Swedish: “Sha Tin”
  • Ukrainian: “Сатхінь (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Сатхінь”
  • Uzbek: “Shatin, Armaniston”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa Điền”
  • Wu Chinese: “香港沙田”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙田”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙田墟”

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