Ngong Ping
Ngong Ping is a highland in the western part of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It hosts Po Lin Monastery and Tian Tan Buddha amidst the hills which is about 34 m tall.Photo: fitri-agung, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tian Tan Buddha and Ngong Ping Cable Car Terminal.
Tian Tan Buddha
Work of art
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Big Buddha is a large bronze sculpture of Buddha, completed in 1993, and located at Ngong Ping, near Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Ngong Ping Cable Car Terminal
Aerial lift
Photo: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0.
The Ngong Ping Terminal is a station of Ngong Ping 360, a gondola lift line, located on Lantau Island's Ngong Ping in Hong Kong. It was opened on 18 September 2006.
Nei Lak Shan
Peak
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nei Lak Shan is the eighth highest mountain in Hong Kong. With a height of 751 m, it is situated on Lantau Island immediately north of Ngong Ping where the Buddhist Po Lin Monastery is located.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Luk Wu and Tei Tong Tsai.
Luk Wu
Hamlet
Tei Tong Tsai
Locality
Photo: Underwaterbuffalo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tei Tong Tsai is a village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Sham Wat
Hamlet
Photo: Underwaterbuffalo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sham Wat is a village of Lantau Island, in Hong Kong.
Ngong Ping
- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: place on Lantau Island, Hong Kong
- Categories: plateau and locality
- Location: Outlying Islands, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.2558° or 22° 15′ 21″ northLongitude
113.90416° or 113° 54′ 15″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
435 metres (1,427 feet)Open location code
7PJM7W43+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 10092247248OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1819230Wikidata ID
Q2918624
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ngong Ping” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نغونغ بينغ”
- Chinese: “昂坪”
- Czech: “Ang Pching”
- Dutch: “Ngong Ping”
- French: “Ngong Ping”
- Galician: “Ngong Ping”
- Hebrew: “נגונג פינג”
- Japanese: “昂坪”
- Korean: “옹핑”
- Persian: “انگنگ پینگ”
- Polish: “Ngong Ping”
- Vietnamese: “Ngang Bình”
- Wu Chinese: “昂坪”
- Yue Chinese: “Ngong Ping”
- Yue Chinese: “昂坪”
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