List of towns in Hong Kong

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

Note: The government of the Hong Kong SAR 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 extends 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 nothern shore of Hong Kong Island included) and Kowloon (New Kowloon included) are referred to as two cities, or as twin cities.

Cities

Cities	District(s) covered
Victoria City	part of Central and Western and part of Wan Chai
Kowloon including New Kowloon	Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong

Towns

partial list

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

New towns

New towns	Location	Year started developing
Tsuen Wan	Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing	1970s
Sha Tin including 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-Tai Ho)	Islands	1997

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

External links

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