Lantau
Lantau is the largest island in Hong Kong. Despite having the airport and Disneyland, it offers quiet mountains and villages that seem a world away from the busy pace of life in Kowloon. Misty mountains on Lantau Island…Photo: Typhoonchaser, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Andrewssi2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Pok To Yan
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pok To Yan, is a mountain on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, with a height of 529 metres above sea level.
Lin Fa Shan
Photo: Lookchard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lin Fa Shan is the seventh highest mountain in Hong Kong.
Por Kai Shan
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Por Kai Shan, is a mountain on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, with a height of 482 metres above sea level.
Localities in the Area
Tung Chung
Photo: 84denniswong, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Tung Chung, meaning "eastern stream", is an area on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Lantau
- Type: Region with 100,000 residents
- Description: largest island in Hong Kong
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Outlying Islands, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.2717° or 22° 16' 18" northLongitude
113.95732° or 113° 57' 26" eastPopulation
100,000Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)Open Location Code
7PJM7XC4+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 10092048773OpenStreetMap Feature
place=regionGeoNames ID
1818609Wikidata ID
Q502379Lantau Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Arabic: جزيرة لانتاو
- Basque: Lantau uhartea
- Belarusian: Лантау
- Bulgarian: Лантау
- Bulgarian: Лантоу
- Cebuano: Lantau Island
- Chinese: Tāi-sū-san
- Chinese: 北大嶼山
- Chinese: 大俞山
- Chinese: 大奚山
- Chinese: 大姨山
- Chinese: 大屿山
- Chinese: 大崳山
- Chinese: 大嶼山
- Chinese: 大漁山
- Chinese: 大濠島
- Chinese: 屯門島
- Chinese: 爛頭島
- Croatian: Lantau
- Czech: Lantau
- Dutch: Lantau-eiland
- Dutch: Lantau
- Dutch: Lantau Eiland
- Dutch: Lantau Island
- Egyptian Arabic: جزيره لانتاو
- English: Lan Tao
- English: Lan Tau
- English: Lantao Island
- English: Lantau Island
- English: Tai Yue Shan
- Finnish: Lantau
- French: Lantau
- French: Lantau Island
- French: Île de Lantau
- German: Lantau
- German: Lantau-Insel
- German: Lantau Island
- Hakka Chinese: Thai-yí-sân
- Hausa: Thai-yí-sân
- Hebrew: האי לנטאו
- Hebrew: לאנטאו
- Hebrew: לנטאו
- Hungarian: Lánthau
- Indonesian: Pulau Lantau
- Italian: Lantau
- Japanese: ランタオ
- Japanese: ランタオ島
- Japanese: 大嶼山
- Korean: 란타우 섬
- Korean: 란터우섬
- Literary Chinese: Lantau Island
- Literary Chinese: 大屿山
- Literary Chinese: 大嶼山
- Malay: Pulau Lantau
- Min Nan Chinese: Tāi-sū-san
- Norwegian: Lantau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lantao
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lantau
- Persian: جزیره لانتانو
- Polish: Lantao
- Polish: Lantau
- Portuguese: Lantau
- Russian: Лантау
- Russian: Лантхау
- Russian: Ланьтау
- Russian: Ланьтхау
- Serbian: Lantau
- Serbian: Лантау
- Slovak: Lantau
- Spanish: Isla Lantau
- Spanish: Isla de Lantau
- Swedish: Lantau
- Thai: เกาะลันเตา
- Turkish: Lantau Adası
- Ukrainian: Лантау
- Vietnamese: Đại Nhĩ Sơn
- Vietnamese: Đảo Lantau
- Vietnamese: Đảo Lạn Đầu
- Welsh: Ynys Lantau
- Wu Chinese: Lantau Island
- Wu Chinese: 大屿山
- Wu Chinese: 大嶼山
- Wu Chinese: 大鱼山
- Yue Chinese: Lantao
- Yue Chinese: Lantao Island
- Yue Chinese: Lantau
- Yue Chinese: Lantau Island
- Yue Chinese: 大奚山
- Yue Chinese: 大嶼
- Yue Chinese: 大嶼山
- Yue Chinese: 靈濤
- Yue Chinese: 靈濤之島
- Yue Chinese: 靈濤島
- Dayushan
- Lan Tau Island
- Nan-ta-ao
- Ta-hao Tao
- Ta-hsü
- Ta-hsü Shan
- Ta-hsü Tao
- Taiho
- Taiho Island
- Taiyu Shan
- Đại Tự Sơn
Other Places Named Lantau
In the Area
- Tai Po New VillageHamlet
- Shan HaHamlet
- Chek Lap Kok New VillageHamlet
- Ma Wan New VillageHamlet
- 大牛湖Locality
- Fui Yiu HaHamlet
Popular Destinations in Outlying Islands
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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 Lantau. Photo: Andrewssi2, CC BY-SA 3.0.