Kowloon
Kowloon is an urban peninsula on the mainland part of Hong Kong, to the north of Hong Kong Island, where the central business district is. The mountains that overlook Kowloon account for eight of Kowloon's nine dragons while, as the story goes, the ninth dragon refers to the emperor who counted them.Photo: Base64, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Yau Ma Tei Theatre
Photo: Chong Fat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yau Ma Tei Theatre, once the largest theatre in Kowloon, is located at the junction of Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street, in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Museum of History
The Hong Kong Museum of History is a public museum that preserves Hong Kong's historical and cultural heritage.Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Photo: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, QE or QEH in short, is one of the largest district general hospital in Hong Kong.
Localities in the Area
Mong Kok
Photo: CX257, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mong Kok is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok.
Tsimshatsui
Photo: Wpcpey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Kowloon
- Type: City with 2,110,000 residents
- Description: region in Hong Kong
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kowloon City, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.31165° or 22° 18' 42" northLongitude
114.17679° or 114° 10' 36" eastPopulation
2,110,000Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)United Nations Location Code
HK KWNOpen Location Code
7PJP856G+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 6986131016OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1819609Wikidata ID
Q239143Kowloon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kowloon
- Arabic: Kowloon
- Arabic: كولون
- Arabic: كولون، هونغ كونغ
- Armenian: Կոուլուն
- Asturian: Kowloon
- Azerbaijani: Koulun
- Basque: Kowloon
- Belarusian: Цзюлун
- Bengali: কাউলুন
- Bulgarian: Коулун
- Catalan: Kowloon
- Cebuano: Kowloon
- Central Bikol: Kowloon
- Chinese: Kiú-liông
- Chinese: 九龍
- Chinese: 九龍半島
- Chinese: 九龙
- Chinese: 九龙半岛
- Chinese: 意法半
- Czech: Kau-lung
- Czech: Kowloon
- Danish: Kowloon
- Dutch: Kowloon
- Egyptian Arabic: كولون
- Esperanto: Kaŭluno
- Estonian: Kowloon
- Finnish: Kowloon
- French: Kowloon
- Georgian: კოულუნი
- Georgian: ძიულუნი
- German: Kowloon
- Greek: Καουλούν
- Greek: Κόουλουν
- Gujarati: કોવલૂન
- Hakka Chinese: Kiú-liùng
- Hausa: Kiú-liùng
- Hebrew: קאולון
- Hindi: कवुलुन
- Hungarian: Kaulung
- Indonesian: Kowloon
- Italian: Caolun
- Italian: Kowloon
- Japanese: 九龍
- Kannada: ಕೌಲೂನ್
- Kirghiz: Цзюлун
- Korean: 가우룽
- Korean: 주룽
- Latin: Novendracones
- Latvian: Kauluna
- Literary Chinese: 九龍
- Lithuanian: Kaulunas
- Macedonian: Коулун
- Malay: Kowloon
- Marathi: कॉव्लून
- Min Dong Chinese: Giū-lṳ̀ng
- Min Nan Chinese: Kiú-liông
- Norwegian: Kowloon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kowloon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kowloon
- Persian: کاولون
- Polish: Koulun
- Portuguese: Kowloon
- Romanian: Kowloon
- Russian: Коулун
- Russian: Цзюлун
- Scots: Kowloon
- Serbian: Каулун
- Sinhala: කොව්ලුන්
- Spanish: Kowloon
- Swedish: Kowloon
- Tamil: கவுலூன்
- Telugu: కౌలూన్
- Thai: เกาลูน
- Turkish: Kowloon
- Ukrainian: Коулун
- Ukrainian: Цзюлун
- Urdu: کولون
- Uzbek: Szyulun
- Vietnamese: Bán đảo Cửu Long
- Vietnamese: Cửu Long
- Waray (Philippines): Kowloon
- Wu Chinese: 九龙
- Yue Chinese: 九龍
- Chiu-lung
- Cửu Long, Hồng Kông
Other Places Named Kowloon
In the Area
- Ho Man TinSuburb
- Lo Lung HangNeighbourhood
- Yung Shue TauLocality
- Yau Ma TeiSuburb
- Gun Club HillNeighbourhood
- Waterloo HillNeighbourhood
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