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Fan Lau

Fan Lau is a peninsula and area in the southwest tip of in Hong Kong. It is also the southwest end the territory of Hong Kong. The very end of the tip is Fan Lau Kok.
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  • Type: Peninsula
  • Description: peninsula in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
  • Also known as: “Fenliu”
  • Address: 分流 Fan Lau

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fan Lau Fort and Tin Hau Temple.

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is a former military fortification located on in . Named after the eponymous peninsula it is situated on, it was built in 1729 during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, a hundred and twelve years before the British took possession of Hong Kong.

Place of worship
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is a place of worship.

Lighthouse
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tai O and Luk Wu.

Suburb
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is a fishing town, partly located on an island of the same name, on the western side of in Hong Kong. The village name means large inlet, referring to outlet for the waterways merges as it moves through .

Village
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Tsuen is an area and a village of in , home to several Buddhist monasteries. The place was named as such since deer could be found there in the past and the landscape looks like a lake.

Hamlet
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Shui Hau is a small village on in .

Fan Lau

Latitude
22.20081° or 22° 12′ 3″ north
Longitude
113.85051° or 113° 51′ 2″ east
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
7PJM6V22+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7682547741
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peninsula
Geo­Names ID
1819882
Wiki­data ID
Q2895034
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Fan Lau” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Fan Lau”
  • Chinese: “分流”
  • Dutch: “Fan Lau”
  • German: “Fan Lau”
  • Hebrew: “פאן לאו”
  • Swedish: “Fan Lau”
  • Yue Chinese: “分流”
  • “Fan Lau”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sha Mo Shan and Fan Lau Stalagmite.

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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 “Fan Lau”. Photo: Geographer, CC BY-SA 3.0.