Wong Tai Sin District
Wong Tai Sin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the only landlocked district in Hong Kong. It is located in Kowloon, and is the northernmost district in Kowloon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: districts of Hong Kong with 424,000 residents
- Description: district in Hong Kong, China
- Also known as: “WTS”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wong Tai Sin Temple and Chi Lin Nunnery.
Wong Tai Sin Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Chong Fat, Public domain.
Wong Tai Sin Temple is a well known shrine and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. 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.
Chi Lin Nunnery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Kroisenbrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chi Lin Nunnery is a large Buddhist temple complex located in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1934 as a retreat for Buddhist nuns and was rebuilt in the 1998 following the traditional Tang dynasty architecture.
Mong Kok Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Ngchikit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mong Kok Stadium is a stadium in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. With a capacity of 6,664, it hosts Hong Kong Premier League football matches, with Kitchee currently using the venue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kowloon and Wong Tai Sin.
Kowloon
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kowloon is an urban peninsula on the mainland part of Hong Kong, directly across from the Hong Kong Island central business district. With over 2 million people living in an area of less than 47 km², Kowloon is one of the most densely populated places on the planet, and has a matching array of places to shop, eat and sleep.
Wong Tai Sin
Suburb
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Wong Tai Sin is an area in Wong Tai Sin District, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area was named after the Wong Tai Sin Temple. The area was previously known as Chuk Yuen or Chuk Un, prior to the intake of two Wong Tai Sin Estates.
Kowloon City
Suburb
Kowloon City is an area in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is part of Kowloon City District. Compared with the council area of Kowloon City District, the Kowloon City area is vaguely bounded in the south by Prince Edward Road West and Prince Edward Road East, north with Lok Fu, east with Kai Tak Nullah and west with Kowloon Tsai.
Wong Tai Sin District
- Location: Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wong Tai Sin District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة وونغ تاي سين”
- Basque: “Wong Tai Sin barrutia”
- Cebuano: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Chinese: “Hông-tāi-sian-khu”
- Chinese: “慈黃區”
- Chinese: “慈黄区”
- Chinese: “黃大仙區”
- Chinese: “黄大仙区”
- Dutch: “Wong Tai Sin District”
- Dutch: “Wong Tai Sin”
- French: “Wong Tai Sin”
- German: “Wong Tai Sin District”
- Hakka Chinese: “Vòng-thai-siên-khî”
- Hebrew: “וונג טאי סין”
- Hungarian: “Vóngtájszín”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Wong Tai Sin”
- Italian: “distretto di Wong Tai Sin”
- Italian: “Distretto di Wong Tai Sin”
- Japanese: “ウォンタイシン区”
- Japanese: “黄大仙区”
- Korean: “웡다이신구”
- Korean: “황다셴 구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hông-tāi-sian-khu”
- Persian: “منطقه وانگ تای سین”
- Polish: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Portuguese: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Russian: “Вонг-Тай-Син”
- Russian: “Вонтайсинь”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Wong Tai Sin”
- Spanish: “Wong Tai Sin District”
- Spanish: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Swedish: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Tamil: “வொங் டயி சின் மாவட்டம்”
- Thai: “เขตหว่องไต่ซิ้น”
- Turkish: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Urdu: “وونگ تائی سن ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Hoàng Đại Tiên”
- Vietnamese: “Wong Tai Sin”
- Yue Chinese: “慈黃區”
- Yue Chinese: “黃大仙區”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate and Chuk Yuen.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wong Tai Sin Station and Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate (I & II).
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