Sha Tin District
Sha Tin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. As one of the 9 districts located in the New Territories, it covers the areas of Sha Tin, Tai Wai, Ma On Shan, Fo Tan, Siu Lek Yuen, Kwun Yam Shan and Ma Liu Shui.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: districts of Hong Kong with 630,000 residents
- Description: district of Hong Kong
- Also known as: “Sha Tin”, “Shatin District”, and “ST”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Sha Tin Centre.
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Museum
Photo: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0.
Hong Kong Heritage Museum is a public museum of history, art and culture in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, located beside the Shing Mun River. The museum opened on 16 December 2000.
Sha Tin Centre
Shopping center
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sha Tin Airfield was a small military airfield in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, which had a single concrete runway. The airfield was located along the Shing Mun River and looked out to Tide Cove.
New Town Plaza
Shopping center
New Town Plaza is a shopping mall in the town centre of Sha Tin, Hong Kong. Developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties, it was the biggest shopping centre in the New Territories when it was completed in the early 1980s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kowloon and Shatin.
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.
Shatin
Town
Photo: Rseric, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Sha Tin, also spelt Shatin, is a neighbourhood along Shing Mun River in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Sha Tin District.
Wong Tai Sin
Suburb
Photo: Maxfield, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Wong Tai Sin is situated 5 km south of Sha Tin District.
Sha Tin District
- Location: Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sha Tin District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة شا تين”
- Basque: “Sha Tin barrutia”
- Catalan: “Sha Tin”
- Cebuano: “Sha Tin (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Sha Tin”
- Chinese: “Sa-tiân-khu”
- Chinese: “沙田区”
- Chinese: “沙田區”
- Dutch: “Sha Tin District”
- Finnish: “Sha Tin (piiri)”
- Finnish: “Sha Tin”
- French: “Sha Tin”
- German: “Sha Tin District”
- German: “Sha Tin”
- German: “Shatin”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sâ-thièn-khî”
- Hausa: “Garin shatin”
- Hausa: “Sha Tin District”
- Hebrew: “שא טין”
- Hungarian: “Sha Tin”
- Hungarian: “Száthín”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Sha Tin”
- Italian: “distretto di Sha Tin”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sha Tin”
- Japanese: “沙田区”
- Korean: “사톈 구”
- Korean: “사톈구”
- Korean: “사틴구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sa-tiân-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sha Tin-distriktet”
- Norwegian: “Sha Tin-distriktet”
- Persian: “منطقه شا تین”
- Polish: “Sha Tin”
- Portuguese: “Sha Tin”
- Russian: “Сатхинь”
- Russian: “Ша-Тин”
- Slovenian: “Sha Tin”
- Spanish: “Sha Tin”
- Swedish: “Sha Tin”
- Tamil: “சா டின் மாவட்டம்”
- Thai: “เขตซ้าถิ่น”
- Turkish: “Sha Tin”
- Ukrainian: “Сатхінь”
- Urdu: “شا تن ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Sa Điền”
- Yue Chinese: “沙田區”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Wo Che and Yuen Chau Kok.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Regal Riverside Hotel and Sha Tin.
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