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Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Explore Hong Kong through its changing shores, working districts, village traditions, craft, food, literature and film.

Hong Kong
Central and Western Wan Chai Eastern Southern Yau Tsim Mong Sham Shui Po Kowloon City Wong Tai Sin Kwun Tong Tsuen Wan Tuen Mun Yuen Long North District Tai Po Sha Tin Sai Kung Kwai Tsing Islands Man Mo Temple Compound St John's Cathedral Duddell Street Steps and Gas Lamps Tin Hau Temple, Causeway Bay Old Wan Chai Post Office Stanley Main Street and Old Stanley Police Station Kowloon Walled City Park Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum Lui Seng Chun Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda Tai O Tai Lam Country Park Sam Tung Uk Cheung Chau Hong Kong Railway Museum Tin Hau Temple and adjoining buildings, Yau Ma Tei Law Uk Folk Museum Jin Yong Gallery, Hong Kong Heritage Museum Hong Kong Museum of Art Bruce Lee exhibition, Hong Kong Heritage Museum

Schematic map of Hong Kong. Markers show approximate locations, not entrances or administrative boundaries.

Places without map markers are listed below; choose a name to read their stories.

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Completed in 1899, Wong Nai Chung Reservoir served as an auxiliary water source beyond the Tai Tam group.

Stanley’s past extends beyond its waterfront: the district includes Hong Kong’s oldest surviving police station and a school with a wartime history.

Aberdeen Harbour remains a working maritime landscape where fishing boats, shipyards, markets and tour routes share the typhoon shelter.

Water and wooded hills frame Wong Nai Chung Reservoir.
Water and wooded hills frame Wong Nai Chung Reservoir.

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Wong Nai Chung Reservoir

Completed in 1899, Wong Nai Chung Reservoir served as an auxiliary water source beyond the Tai Tam group.

Stanley Main Street and Old Stanley Police Station

Stanley’s past extends beyond its waterfront: the district includes Hong Kong’s oldest surviving police station and a school with a wartime history.

Aberdeen Harbour

Aberdeen Harbour remains a working maritime landscape where fishing boats, shipyards, markets and tour routes share the typhoon shelter.

Aberdeen Promenade

Aberdeen Promenade runs beside the wholesale fish market, where the harbour’s daily work and public waterfront meet.

Aberdeen Shipyards

Aberdeen’s typhoon shelter still contains fishing vessels, workboats and shipyards, making boat repair and maritime labour part of its present landscape.

Stanley

Stanley’s institutional history spans an 1859 police station, a school used as a military hospital and an internment camp during the Second World War.

Former Repulse Bay Hotel site

Eileen Chang’s fictional scenes and Repulse Bay’s changing buildings open two connected ways of looking at the coast.
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  1. Water and wooded hills frame Wong Nai Chung Reservoir.Jon Wade · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized proportionally and converted to WebP; no cropping or changes to image content.
  2. Houseboats lie alongside one another in Aberdeen Harbour.Paul Mannix · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized proportionally and converted to WebP; no cropping or changes to image content.
  3. Junk boats at a shipyard in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, in 1963.David Pirmann; C. E. Hablutzel (original slide photographer, per page description) · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized proportionally and converted to WebP; no cropping or changes to image content.
  4. A residential tower in Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, seen from below.skpy · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized proportionally and converted to WebP; no cropping or changes to image content.