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.Photo: Man77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Man77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
St. John Hospital
Photo: Chong Fat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. John Hospital, is a community hospital at Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, provides primary, emergency and community health services to the community at Cheung Chau.
Cheung Po Tsai Cave
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cheung Po Tsai Cave is a natural cave where the famous Guangdong pirate Cheung Po Tsai, according to legend, kept his treasures.
Cheung Chau
- Type: Island
- Description: island in New Territories, Hong Kong
- 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
Q137563Cheung Chau Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- 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
- English: Cheung Chau Island
- English: Dumbbell Island
- 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: Cheung Chau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cheung Chau
- Polish: Cheung Chau
- Spanish: Cheung Chau
- Swedish: Cheung Chau
- Vietnamese: Cheung Chau
- Vietnamese: Trường Châu, Hồng Kông
- Yue Chinese: 長洲
- Yue Chinese: 長洲(香港)
- Chang
- Chang Chau
- Cheung Chan
- Cheung Chan Island
Other Places Named Cheung Chau
In the Area
- Cheung ChauSuburb
- Tai Shek HauLocality
- Tai Kwai Wan San TsuenHamlet
- Nam TamLocality
- Fa PengLocality
- Sin Yan TsengLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Cheung Chau. Photo: Man77, CC BY-SA 3.0.