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The following are incomplete lists of expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong. Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape. Some of the roads on the north side of Hong Kong Island and southern Kowloon have a grid-like pattern.
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, as part of their assimilation policy, Japanese governors advocated for the changing of English and Chinese place names of streets and buildings into Japanese, the official lingua franca. This is a partial list of all street names changed during the Japanese occupation; due to incomplete historical ...
The generic forms of Hong Kong place names are mainly Cantonese, Hakka and British English, although other languages also contribute to Hong Kong place names.. The majority of generic forms are suffix such as Chung in Kwai Chung.
Between 1841 and 1997, Hong Kong was a Crown Colony of the United Kingdom, and the colonial government-established postal service, the Hongkong Post, was retained after the 1997 handover. As such, postal service remained and remains separate from the rest of the PRC under the one country, two systems principle.
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.
The crossing point of Possession Street and Queen's Road Central. Possession Street (Chinese: 水坑口街) is a street in Sheung Wan, from Queen's Road West to Hollywood Road, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The street marks the boundary of Queen's Road West and Queen's Road Central. [1]
Pottinger Street in the 1930s. Pottinger Street is a street in Central, Hong Kong. It is also known as the Stone Slabs Street (Chinese: 石板街; Jyutping: sek6 baan2 gaai1) since the street is paved unevenly by granite stone steps. It was named in 1858 after Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of Hong Kong, serving from 1843
Name Photo Connections District Opened Code Kennedy Town: Central and Western: 28 December 2014: KET HKU: Central and Western: HKU Sai Ying Pun: Central and Western: 29 March 2015: SYP Sheung Wan: Central and Western: 23 May 1986: SHW Central Tsuen Wan line Transfer to Tung Chung line and Airport Express via Hong Kong station: Central and Western