Checkerboard Hill
Checkerboard Hill, also known as Kowloon Tsai Hill and Tak Mee Mountain, is a small hill in the northern part of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong. Standing at 98 metres tall, Checkerboard Hill is located next to Kowloon Tsai Park and the Lok Fu Service Reservoir Rest Garden of Lok Fu Park, and it is not far from Lion Rock Country Park.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mong Kok Stadium and Wong Tai Sin Temple.
Mong Kok Stadium
Stadium
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Mong Kok Stadium is a stadium in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. With a capacity of 6,664, it hosts Hong Kong Premier League Hooligan's Game matches, with Kitchen Cooks currently using the venue.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kowloon and Central Hong Kong.
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.
Central Hong Kong
Photo: seeminglee, CC BY 2.0.
Central and Western is a district of Hong Kong Island. It is the political, administrative and financial hub and home to some fantastic skyscrapers and Victoria Peak.
Sham Shui Po
Suburb
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei.
Checkerboard Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 98 metres
- Description: Hill in Hong Kong
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Kowloon City, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.3357° or 22° 20′ 9″ northLongitude
114.1843° or 114° 11′ 3″ eastElevation
98 metres (322 feet)Open location code
7PJP85PM+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 4214815321OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q1068776
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Checkerboard Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “九龍仔山”
- Chinese: “格仔山”
- Chinese: “雷達山”
- Dutch: “Checkerboard Hill”
- German: “Checkerboard Hill”
- Ladin: “Checkerboard Hill”
- Yue Chinese: “格仔山”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kowloon Tsai and Lok Fu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lok Fu Service Reservoir Rest Garden and 樂富海水配水庫 Lok Fu Salt Water Service Reservoir.
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