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The following is an incomplete list of urban settlements, towns, new towns (satellite towns) in Hong Kong.. While the Government of Hong Kong is unitary and Hong Kong law does not define cities and towns as subsidiary administrative units, the geographical limits of the City of Victoria, Kowloon and New Kowloon are defined in law.
Hong Kong Antiquities and Monuments Office; Siu Kwok Kin; Sham Sze (2001). Heritage Trails in Urban Hong Kong. Wan Li Book Co, Ltd. ISBN 962-14-2238-8. Hong Kong new towns; Digital Map; Hong Kong Place photo database; Hong Kong Tourism Association; Hong Kong Films; Hong Kong Photo 1946-1947 by Hedda Morrison
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Victoria City (8 C, 6 P) W. Wong Tai Sin (30 P) Y. ... Pages in category "Populated places in Hong Kong" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 ...
The name of the territory, first romanised as "He-Ong-Kong" in 1780, [23] originally referred to a small inlet located between Aberdeen Island and the southern coast of Hong Kong Island. Aberdeen was an initial point of contact between British sailors and local fishermen. [ 24 ]
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Hong Kong in administration consists of three areas (區域), which was further divided into 18 districts (地區). [11] The three areas are: Hong Kong Island , Kowloon , and the New Territories . [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The New Territories has the most districts (9), followed by Kowloon (5), and lastly Hong Kong Island (4).
It is common practice in Cantonese communities to change and swap Chinese characters of similar pronunciations because of misinterpretation by different ruling governments over time or visitors from foreign villages and cities, illiteracy of local villages before the economic boom, seeking of good fortune and to replace 'bad sounding' words by using characters with a more positive meaning.