Outlying Islands
Hong Kong's Outlying Islands are a generic label for the other 234 islands, islets and rocks in the territory. For tourists, the most popular islands include:…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Lamma
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Lamma Island, also known as Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong.
Peng Chau
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Peng Chau is the smallest of the populated islands within the Outlying Islands of Hong Kong.
Cheung Chau
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Cheung Chau is one of the most populous of the Outlying Islands of Hong Kong with a population of 23,000.
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.
Sunset Peak
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Sunset Peak or Tai Tung Shan is the third-highest peak in Hong Kong and the second-highest on the island of Lantau.
Localities in the Area
Lantau
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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.
Tung Chung
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Tung Chung, meaning "eastern stream", is an area on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Pui O
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pui O, formerly Lo Pui O, is an area on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.
Outlying Islands
- Type: district of Hong Kong with 140,000 residents
- Description: district of Hong Kong
- Location: Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.26382° or 22° 15' 50" northLongitude
113.96038° or 113° 57' 37" eastPopulation
140,000Elevation
423 metres (1,388 feet)Open Location Code
7PJM7X76+G5GeoNames ID
1819708Wikidata ID
Q752523Outlying Islands Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: مقاطعة الجزر
- Armenian: Այլենդս
- Basque: Hong Kongeko uharteak
- Cebuano: Islands District
- Chinese: Lî-tó-khu
- Chinese: 离岛区
- Chinese: 離島區
- Dutch: Islands District
- Dutch: Outlying Islands
- English: Islands District
- Esperanto: Insulara Distrikto
- French: Islands District
- German: Islands District
- German: Outlying Islands
- Hakka Chinese: Lì-tó-khî
- Hausa: Lì-tó-khî
- Hebrew: האיים החיצוניים
- Hindi: ईस्लन्द्स दिस्त्रिच्त्
- Hungarian: Szigetek
- Indonesian: Distrik Pulau
- Italian: distretto delle Isole
- Japanese: 離島区
- Korean: 리다오 구
- Korean: 리다오구
- Macedonian: Острови (округ)
- Min Nan Chinese: Lî-tó-khu
- Norwegian: Øydistriktet
- Norwegian Bokmål: Islands District, Hong Kong
- Norwegian Bokmål: Øydistriktet
- Persian: منطقه جزایر
- Polish: Islands
- Portuguese: Distrito das Ilhas
- Russian: Айлендс
- Spanish: Distrito Islas
- Spanish: Distrito de las Islas
- Spanish: Islands District
- Swedish: Islands District
- Swedish: Öarna, Hong Kong
- Swedish: Öarna
- Swedish: Ödistriktet
- Tamil: தீவுகள் மாவட்டம்
- Turkish: Islands
- Urdu: جزائر ضلع
- Vietnamese: Li Đảo
- Vietnamese: Ly Đảo
- Welsh: dosbarth o ysysoedd (uned weinyddol)
- Yue Chinese: 離島區
- Distretto delle Isole
- Islands Area
- Southern District
- Острови
- 레이도구
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. 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 Outlying Islands. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.