Cheung Chau
Cheung Chau is one of the most populous of the Outlying Islands of Hong Kong with a population of 23,000. The island is also referred to as "dumbbell island" in Cantonese due to its shape.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Man77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Man77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in New Territories, Hong Kong
- Also known as: “Chang”, “Chang Chau”, “Cheung Chan”, “Cheung Chan Island”, “Cheung Chau Island”, and “Dumbbell Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. John Hospital and Cheung Po Tsai Cave.
St. John Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Chong Fat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. John Hospital is a community hospital on the island of Cheung Chau, Hong Kong. It provides primary, emergency, and community health services.
Cheung Po Tsai Cave
Cave
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cheung Po Tsai Cave is a natural cave in Hong Kong where the Guangdong pirate Cheung Po Tsai, according to legend, kept his treasures. It is located on the outlying island of Cheung Chau and is a popular attraction there.
Cheung Chau
- Category: landform
- Location: Outlying Islands, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.2096° or 22° 12′ 35″ northLongitude
114.0292° or 114° 1′ 45″ eastElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
7PJP625H+VMOpenStreetMap ID
way 9561116GeoNames ID
1819967Wikidata ID
Q137563
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cheung Chau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيونغ تشاو”
- Basque: “Cheung Chau”
- Catalan: “Cheung Chau”
- Cebuano: “Cheung Chau”
- Chinese: “啞鈴島”
- Chinese: “長洲”
- Chinese: “长洲”
- Dutch: “Cheung Chau”
- French: “île de Cheung Chau”
- French: “Île de Cheung Chau”
- German: “Cheung Chau”
- Greek: “Τσενγκ Τσάου”
- Hebrew: “צ’אונג צ’או”
- Italian: “Cheung Chau”
- Japanese: “長洲島”
- Korean: “청차우섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheung Chau”
- Norwegian: “Cheung Chau”
- Polish: “Cheung Chau”
- Spanish: “Cheung Chau”
- Swedish: “Cheung Chau”
- Thai: “เฉิ่งเจ๊า”
- Vietnamese: “Cheung Chau”
- Vietnamese: “Trường Châu, Hồng Kông”
- Yue Chinese: “長洲（香港）”
- Yue Chinese: “長洲”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cheung Chau”. Photo: Man77, CC BY-SA 3.0.