List of cities and towns in Hong Kong

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The following is a list of cities, towns and new towns in Hong Kong.

Note that the Hong Kong Government is unitary, and have not set any legal status for cities and towns. The limits of the City of Victoria, Kowloon and New Kowloon are stated in law, but none of these three areas has the legal status of a city or a town. Districts of Hong Kong are drawn according to mountains, coastlines and roads, and do not co-incide with the natural extents of the cities or towns. The following listing is compiled by geography, and evidence from written documents that Victoria City (sometimes the sprawl along the northern shore of Hong Kong Island included) and Kowloon (New Kowloon included) are referred to as two cities, or as twin cities.

Contents 1 Cities 2 New towns 3 Towns 4 Largest urban agglomerations 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Cities

Victoria City	part of Central and Western, part of Wan Chai and part of Eastern
Kowloon including New Kowloon	Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong

[edit] New towns

New towns	Location	Year started developing
Tsuen Wan   (Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi)	Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing	1970s
Sha Tin   (Sha Tin and Ma On Shan)	Sha Tin	1970s
Tuen Mun	Tuen Mun	1970s
Tai Po	Tai Po	early 1980s
Yuen Long	Yuen Long	early 1980s
Fanling-Sheung Shui	North	mid-1980s
Tseung Kwan O	Sai Kung	late 1980s
Tin Shui Wai	Yuen Long	early 1990s
North Lantau   (Tung Chung and Tai Ho)	Islands	1997

[edit] Towns

Towns	Location
Aberdeen	Southern
Cheung Chau	Islands
Discovery Bay	Islands
Kennedy Town	Central and Western
Kwun Tong	Kwun Tong
Lei Yue Mun	Kwun Tong
Ma Wan	Islands
Mui Wo (Silvermine Bay)	Islands
Peng Chau	Islands
Sai Kung	Sai Kung
Sha Tau Kok	North
Shek O	Southern
Sok Kwu Wan	Islands
Stanley	Southern
Tai O	Islands
Yuen Long Town	Yuen Long
Yung Shue Wan	Islands

[edit] Largest urban agglomerations

1. Kowloon - 2,040,200
2. Victoria City (Northern coast of Hong Kong Island)- 1,345,800
3. Tsuen Wan New Town - 755,000
4. Sha Tin - 648,400
5. Tuen Mun - 499,600
6. Yuen Long - 494,800
7. Tseung Kwan O - 365,600
8. Fanling-Sheung Shui - 336,300
9. Tai Po - 322,300

Source: Citypopulation.de

[edit] See also

• List of villages in Hong Kong
• List of buildings, sites, and areas in Hong Kong
• List of cities by country
• List of city listings by country
• List of metropolitan areas by population
• Districts of Hong Kong

[edit] External links

• Population statistics by Citypopulation.de
• Evangelizing World Class Cities, contains definitions of a city