Peng Chau Island
Tung Ping Chau is an island in Hong Kong, part of Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark. It is also known as Ping Chau. Tung is prepended to the name at times so as to avoid possible confusion with Peng Chau, another island in Hong Kong with an identically pronounced name in Cantonese.Photo: Geographer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Hong Kong
- Also known as: “P’ing Chou”, “Peng Chau”, “Peng Chow”, “Ping Chau”, “Ping Chau Island”, and “Tung Ping Chau”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nan’ao Subdistrict and Dapeng Subdistrict.
Nan’ao Subdistrict
Suburb
Photo: Ricky36, Public domain.
Nan'ao Subdistrict is a township-level division situated in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is located on Dapeng Peninsula, on the shores of Mirs Bay. Nan’ao Subdistrict is situated 6 km east of Peng Chau Island.
Dapeng Subdistrict
Suburb
Photo: Helanhuaren, Public domain.
Dapeng is a subdistrict in the south east of Longgang District, in the prefecture-level city Shenzhen, in the Chinese province of Guangdong. In this area the main spoken dialects are Dapeng dialect and Bao'an Hakka. Dapeng Subdistrict is situated 7 km northeast of Peng Chau Island.
Peng Chau Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Tai Po District, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Peng Chau Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ping Chau”
- Basque: “Tung Ping Chau”
- Cebuano: “Tung Ping Chau Island”
- Chinese: “东平洲”
- Chinese: “平洲”
- Chinese: “東坪洲”
- Chinese: “東平洲”
- Czech: “Tung Ping Chau”
- Dutch: “Ping Chau”
- Dutch: “Tung Ping Chau”
- Japanese: “平洲”
- Japanese: “東平洲”
- Korean: “둥핑자우섬”
- Korean: “핑자우섬”
- Spanish: “Ping Chau”
- Swedish: “Tung Ping Chau Island”
- Vietnamese: “Bình Châu”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Bình Châu”
- Yue Chinese: “平洲”
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