Kowloon City District
Kowloon City district covers about 1,000 hectares, and is mainly a residential area; most of its people live in private sector housing, including old tenement buildings, private residential developments and low-rise villas; the rest of them mainly live in public rental housing and the Home Ownership Scheme estates. It is the only district that incorporated into the land of Hong Kong in different stages (Convention of Peking, Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory and the demolition of the Kowloon Walled City)
The district includes many notable areas of Kowloon, such as Ho Man Tin, Hung Hom, Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon Tong, Ma Tau Wai, To Kwa Wan, and Whampoa Garden, and the proper Kowloon City, from where it derives its namesake.
History
According to reliable historical records such as the History book of Song Dynasty (宋書), emperor Emperor Duanzong (Zhao Shi) and emperor Zhao Bing took refuge in nowadays Kowloon City district. Sung Wong Toi was a remarkable monument during that era.
Part of the district was the location of the original Kowloon Walled City, see Kowloon Walled City. This is now Walled City Park.
The former airport, Kai Tak International Airport was also located in the district; part of it will be re-developed to be Kai Tak Cruise Terminal. In 1982, the Hong Kong Government decided to divide Hong Kong into 18 administrative districts, and Kowloon City and its neighbouring areas such as Hung Hom now belongs to Kowloon City district.
Areas
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Sights
Education
- Universities
- Hong Kong Baptist University (Kowloon Tong main campus)
- Open University of Hong Kong (Ho Man Tin main campus)
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hung Hom main campus)
See also
Notes
References
- ^ Welcome Message from Miss Alice CHOI, JP, District Officer (Kowloon City) Retrieved 2024-10-21
- ^ "2016 Population Census: Summary Results" (in English and Chinese). Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong Government. 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ District Profiles, Hong Kong Government, 8 December 2017, retrieved 15 April 2020
- ^ 2016 HK Population by-Census Table A201a Population by District Council District and Year, Retrieved 2018-05-24
- ^ Kowloon City district highlights extracted from Council website, Retrieved 2018-05-24