Ma Tau Wai

Ma Tau Wai is an area in the , , Hong Kong. It was originally a walled village between present-day Argyle Street and Prince Edward Road West, east of present-day .
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  • Type: Suburb with 20,200 residents
  • Description: residential area
  • Also known as: “馬頭圍 Ma Tau Wai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Evangel Hospital and St. Teresa’s Hospital.

Hospital building
Photo: Chong Fat, Public domain.
is a non-profit Christian Community Hospital in Ma Tau Wai was established in 1965. It was founded by Evangelical Free Church of America and the Evangelical Free Church of China.

Hospital
Photo: Chong Fat, Public domain.
St. Teresa's Hospital is the largest nonprofit Roman Catholic charitable hospital in , . It is located at 327 Prince Edward Road West.

Garden
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sung Wong Toi is an important historic relic in , , . While its remaining portion is now located in the at the junction of Ma Tau Chung Road and Sung Wong Toi Road, it was originally a 45-metre-tall boulder standing on the top of Sacred Hill in above Kowloon Bay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ma Tau Chung and Kowloon City.

Suburb
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is an area in , Hong Kong, west of and east of Ma Tau Wai. It was named after a creek which originated in Quarry Hill emptying into Kowloon Bay.

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.

Suburb
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is a place north of , south-east of modern-day and south-west of the former in Hong Kong. It was a cape in Kowloon Bay in and opposite to the Sacred Hill and the mouth of .

Ma Tau Wai

Latitude
22.32554° or 22° 19′ 32″ north
Longitude
114.18688° or 114° 11′ 13″ east
Population
20,200
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
7PJP85GP+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3975771443
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1819394
Wiki­data ID
Q837052
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Ma Tau Wai” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “碼頭圍”
  • Chinese: “馬頭圍”
  • Chinese: “马头围”
  • Japanese: “馬頭囲”
  • Japanese: “馬頭圍”
  • Portuguese: “Ma Tau Wai”
  • Yue Chinese: “Ma Tau Wai”
  • Yue Chinese: “古瑾圍”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬頭圍”

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