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The bay is located at the east of the Kowloon Peninsula and north of Hong Kong Island. It is the eastern portion of Victoria Harbour , between Hung Hom and Lei Yue Mun . The bay was divided into half when the 13/31 runway of the former Kai Tak International Airport was constructed in the middle of the bay in the mid-1950s.
Petaling Street (Malay: Jalan Petaling, Simplified Chinese: 茨厂街, Traditional Chinese: 茨廠街, pinyin: Cíchǎng Jiē, Cantonese jyutping: ci 4 cong 2 gaai 1,Tamil: பெட்டாலிங் தெரு , Peṭṭāliṅ teru ) is a Chinatown located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [1] The whole vicinity is also known as Chinatown KL ...
The main rock type of the peninsula consists of a medium grained monzogranite with some fine granite outcrops, part of the Kowloon Granite. [1] [2] Early maps and photographs show flat, low-lying land behind the beach of Tsim Sha Tsui Bay with a raised area, Kowloon Hill, in the west.
Ngau Tau Kok, viewed from then Kai Tak Airport in 1971 Kwun Tong Road Route 7 flyover near Ting Fu Street. Ngau Tau Kok (Chinese: 牛頭角) 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.
Tsim Sha Tsui is one of the main shopping areas in Hong Kong. Shopping malls in the area include: 1881 Heritage, located within the renovated Former Marine Police Headquarters; China Hong Kong City, which also houses office buildings, a hotel and a ferry terminal; Cke, in the Chungking Mansions building; Harbour City; iSQUARE, opened in 2009
Fa Yuen Street or Sport Shoes Street. Market stalls in Fa Yuen Street. Fa Yuen Street (traditional Chinese: 花園街; simplified Chinese: 花园街; pinyin: Huāyuán Jiē; Cantonese Yale: fa1 yun4 gaai1) is a street between Boundary Street and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Kwun Tong Industrial Area Kwun Tong Business Area aerial view. Kwun Tong is an area in the Kwun Tong District of Hong Kong, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowloon Peak in the east to the north coast of the former Kai Tak Airport runway in the west.
Until 1930, the area was called Mong Kok Tsui (芒角嘴). [3] The current English name is a transliteration of its older Chinese name 望角 (Jyutping: mong 6 gok 3; IPA: [mɔːŋ˨ kɔːk˧]), or 芒角 (Jyutping: mong 4 gok 3; IPA: [mɔːŋ˨˩ kɔːk˧]), which is named for its plentiful supply of ferns in the past when it was a coastal region.