Kai Tak Airport
Kai Tak Airport was an international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998. Officially known as Hong Kong International Airport from 1954 to 6 July 1998, it is often referred to as Hong Kong International Airport, Kai Tak,and Kai Tak International…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned airfield
- Description: former international airport of Hong Kong (1925—1998)
- Also known as: “HKG”, “Hong Kong International Airport (old)”, “Kai Tak Aerodrome”, “VHHH”, and “VHHX”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hong Kong Children’s Hospital and Kowloon Rock.
Hong Kong Children’s Hospital
Hospital
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Hong Kong Children's Hospital is the first children hospital in Hong Kong's public healthcare system, located in Kowloon City, Hong Kong. Located at the south apron of the former Kai Tak Airport, the hospital has 468 beds for inpatients and day-patients, providing mainly tertiary services for complex and rare paediatric cases. Hong Kong Children’s Hospital is situated 400 metres east of Kai Tak Airport.
Kowloon Rock
Islet
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Kowloon Rock is an island in the middle of Kowloon Bay in Hong Kong, near the runway of the former Kai Tak Airport. Administratively, it is part of Kowloon City District.
Kowloon Bay station
Railway station
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Kowloon Bay is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong line. It is located between Choi Hung and Ngau Tau Kok stations in Kowloon East. The station was opened in 1979. Kowloon Bay station is situated 1¼ km northeast of Kai Tak Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ngau Tau Kok and Ma Tau Kok.
Ngau Tau Kok
Suburb
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Ngau Tau Kok is an area of eastern Kowloon in Hong Kong, in the north of Kwun Tong District east to Kowloon Bay. Largely residential, Ngau Tau Kok has a population in excess of 210,000.
Ma Tau Kok
Suburb
Ma Tau Kok is a place north of To Kwa Wan, south-east of modern-day Ma Tau Chung and south-west of the former Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. It was a cape in Kowloon Bay in Victoria Harbour and opposite to the Sacred Hill and the mouth of Ma Tau Chung.
Tai Wan
Neighborhood
Tai Wan was a bay on the eastern Hung Hom, Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. The southern end of the bay joined with the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock. The name also refers to an area, which neighbours To Kwa Wan and the Whampoa Garden in Hung Hom.
Kai Tak Airport
- Categories: international airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, former aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kai Tak Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار كاي تاك”
- Bulgarian: “Кайтак”
- Chinese: “启德机场”
- Chinese: “啓德機場”
- Chinese: “啟德機場”
- Chinese: “香港启德机场”
- Chinese: “香港啓德機場”
- Chinese: “香港啟德機場”
- Czech: “Letiště Kai Tak”
- Dutch: “Luchthaven Kai Tak”
- Esperanto: “Internacia Flughaveno Kai Tak”
- Finnish: “Kai Takin lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport international Kai Tak”
- French: “Aéroport international Kai Tak”
- German: “Flughafen Hongkong-Kai Tak”
- German: “Flughafen Kai Tak”
- Greek: “Αεροδρόμιο Κάι Τακ”
- Hebrew: “נמל התעופה קאי טאק”
- Hindi: “काई ताक हवाई अड्डा”
- Hungarian: “Kajtak nemzetközi repülőtér”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Kai Tak”
- Indonesian: “HKG”
- Indonesian: “VHHH”
- Indonesian: “VHHX”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Hong Kong Kai Tak”
- Japanese: “カイタック国際空港”
- Japanese: “啓徳空港”
- Korean: “카이탁 공항”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Hong Kong (old)”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Kai Tak”
- Newari: “काई ताक विमानस्थल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kai Tak lufthavn”
- Norwegian: “Kai Tak lufthavn”
- Persian: “فرودگاه کای تک”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Hongkong-Kai Tak”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional Kai Tak”
- Russian: “Кайтак”
- Slovenian: “HGK”
- Slovenian: “Kai Tak Airport”
- Slovenian: “Letališče Kai Tak”
- Slovenian: “Mednarodno letališče Hongkong (staro)”
- Slovenian: “VHHH”
- Slovenian: “VHHX”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional Kai Tak”
- Swedish: “Kai Tak Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи к так”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Кайтак”
- Tamil: “கை டக் வானூர்தி நிலையம்”
- Tamil: “கை டக் விமான நிலையம்”
- Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานไขตั๊ก”
- Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานไคตั๊ก”
- Turkish: “Kai Tak Havaalanı”
- Ukrainian: “Кайтак (аеропорт)”
- Ukrainian: “Кайтак”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Kai Tak”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay Khải Đức”
- Wu Chinese: “启德机场”
- Yue Chinese: “啓德機場”
- Yue Chinese: “啟德機場”
- Yue Chinese: “香港國際機場”
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