Kowloon City

Kowloon City is an in , . It is part of . Compared with the council area of , the Kowloon City 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.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Suburb with 419,000 residents
  • Description: neighbourhood in Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Also known as: “Chiu-lung-ku-ch’eng”, “Jiulongcheng”, “Kau Lung Sheng”, and “Kowloon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mong Kok Stadium and Wong Tai Sin Temple.

Stadium
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is a stadium in , , . With a capacity of 6,664, it hosts Hong Kong Premier League Hooligan's Game matches, with Kitchen Cooks currently using the venue.

Place of worship
Photo: Chong Fat, Public domain.
is a well known shrine and tourist attraction in . It is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong. The 18,000 m2 Taoist temple is famed for the many prayers answered: "What you request is what you get" via a practice called kau chim.

Buddhist temple
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is a large Buddhist temple complex located in , , . It was founded in 1934 as a retreat for Buddhist nuns and was rebuilt in the 1998 following the traditional Tang dynasty architecture.

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.

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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 area of , , situated in the northwestern part of the , north of , east of and south of Shek Kip Mei.

Kowloon City

Latitude
22.3302° or 22° 19′ 49″ north
Longitude
114.1899° or 114° 11′ 24″ east
Population
419,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
7PJP85JQ+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2390266377
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1819607
Wiki­data ID
Q1189342
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Satellite Map

Discover Kowloon City from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Kowloon City” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “九龍城”
  • Chinese: “九龙城”
  • Chinese: “食城”
  • Dutch: “Kowloon City”
  • French: “Kowloon City”
  • German: “Kowloon City”
  • Japanese: “九龍城”
  • Korean: “가우룽싱”
  • Korean: “주룽청”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kowloon City”
  • Portuguese: “Kowloon City”
  • Slovenian: “Kowloon City”
  • Swedish: “Kowloon City”
  • Urdu: “کولون شہر”
  • Yue Chinese: “Kau Lung Shing”
  • Yue Chinese: “九龍城”
  • Yue Chinese: “九龍城市區”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kowloon City Post Office and Kowloon City Public Library.

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