Ap Lei Chau

Ap Lei Chau or Aberdeen Island is an island of Hong Kong, located off next to Aberdeen Harbour and . It has an area of 1.30 square kilometres after land reclamation.
Photo: Sl, CC BY-SA 2.5.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Hong Kong
  • Also known as: Aberdeen Island”, “Ap Li Chau”, and “Yali Zhou

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lei Tung and Aberdeen Baptist Lui Ming Choi College.

Metro station
is an underground MTR rapid transit station in Hong Kong on the eastern section of the South Island line, located beside on Ap Lei Chau in .

School
is a Baptist co-educational government aided secondary school in Ap Lei Chau, , Hong Kong near .

Peak
Photo: Sl, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, also known as Yuk Kwai Shan, is a hill located on the island of Ap Lei Chau in . The hill is 196m in height and is a popular site for hiking. A narrow tombolo connects the ocean facing shore of to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shek Pai Wan and Aberdeen.

Locality
or Aberdeen Bay is a bay between on and Ap Lei Chau. Its name was formerly romanized as Shekpywan. The bay is one of the traditional fishery ports because the hills on two sides forms a nature shelter.

Suburb
is an area on southwest in Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the . While the name "Aberdeen" could be taken in a broad sense to encompass the areas of , , Ap Lei Chau, , and Wah Fu Estate, it is more often used to refer to the town only.

Quarter
, or Kai Lung Wan is a bay on southwestern in Hong Kong, to the southeast of . The pronunciation of Wan in Kai Lung Wan in the Cantonese language is like the one in 環.

Ap Lei Chau

Latitude
22.24129° or 22° 14′ 29″ north
Longitude
114.15482° or 114° 9′ 17″ east
Population
86,800
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
United Nations Location Code
HK ALC
Open location code
7PJP65R3+GW
Geo­Names ID
1820039
Wiki­data ID
Q318115
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ap Lei Chau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: آب لي تشاو
  • Asturian: Ap Lei Chau
  • Basque: Ap Lei Chau
  • Bengali: আপ লেই চাউ
  • Catalan: Ap Lei Chau
  • Cebuano: Ap Lei Chau
  • Chinese: 鴨脷洲
  • Chinese: 鸭脷洲
  • Czech: Aberdeen Island
  • Czech: Ap Lei Chau
  • Czech: Ja-li čou
  • Dutch: Ap Lei Chau
  • Esperanto: Ap Lei Chau
  • Finnish: Ap Lei Chau
  • French: Ap Lei Chau
  • German: Ap Lei Chau
  • Hebrew: אפ ליי צ’או
  • Hungarian: Ápléjcau
  • Italian: Ap Lei Chau
  • Japanese: 鴨リ洲
  • Japanese: 鴨脷洲
  • Korean: 압레이차우
  • Korean: 야리저우
  • Literary Chinese: 鴨脷洲
  • Polish: Ap Lei Chau
  • Portuguese: Ap Lei Chau
  • Russian: Аплэйчау
  • Spanish: Ap Lei Chau
  • Swedish: Ap Lei Chau
  • Turkish: Ap Lei Chau
  • Vietnamese: Áp Lợi Châu
  • Wu Chinese: 鸭脷洲
  • Yue Chinese: 鴨脷洲

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