East Asia
Hong Kong
Sham Shui Po District

Sham Shui Po

Sham Shui Po is an area of , , situated in the northwestern part of the , north of , east of and south of Shek Kip Mei.
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  • Type: Suburb with 431,000 residents
  • Description: area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
  • Also known as: “Sam shui po”, “Sham-shui-poo”, “Shamshuipo”, “Shan Shin Po”, and “SSP”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mong Kok Stadium and Yau Ma Tei Theatre.

Stadium
Photo: Ngchikit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a stadium in , , . With a capacity of 6,664, it hosts Hong Kong Premier League football matches, with Kitchee currently using the venue.

Theater building
Photo: Chong Fat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, once the largest theatre in , is located at the junction of Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street, in , . It is classified as "Grade II Historic Building" It is the only remaining pre-World War II theatre in Kowloon.

Railway station
Photo: Qwer132477, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cheung Sha Wan is an MTR station on the Tsuen Wan line. It is located underneath Cheung Sha Wan Road in . It was opened on 17 May 1982.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kowloon and Central Hong Kong.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an urban peninsula on the mainland part of , directly across from the Hong Kong Island . With over 2 million people living in an area of less than 47 km², is one of the most densely populated places on the planet, and has a matching array of places to shop, eat and sleep.

Photo: seeminglee, CC BY 2.0.
Central and Western is a district of Island. It is the political, administrative and financial hub and home to some fantastic skyscrapers and Victoria Peak.

Suburb
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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.

Sham Shui Po

Latitude
22.3298° or 22° 19′ 47″ north
Longitude
114.1609° or 114° 9′ 39″ east
Population
431,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HK SSP
Open location code
7PJP85H6+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2621314796
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1818953
Wiki­data ID
Q1185317
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Satellite Map

Discover Sham Shui Po from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Sham Shui Po” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “深水埗”
  • Chinese: “深水埗區”
  • Chinese: “深水埠”
  • Chinese: “深水步”
  • Dutch: “Sham Shui Po”
  • French: “Sham Shui Po”
  • Japanese: “深水埗”
  • Japanese: “深水歩”
  • Korean: “삼서이보”
  • Korean: “선수이부”
  • Literary Chinese: “深水埗”
  • Malay: “Sham Shui Po”
  • Tamil: “சம் சுயி போ”
  • Vietnamese: “Thâm Thủy Bộ”
  • Yue Chinese: “深水埔”
  • Yue Chinese: “深水埗”
  • Yue Chinese: “深水埠”
  • Yue Chinese: “深水堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “深水步”
  • Yue Chinese: “深水莆”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sham Shui Po”. Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.