Sai Kung Town (Sai Kung)
Sai Kung Town or simply Sai Kung is a town on the Sai Kung Peninsula, facing Sai Kung Hoi (Inner Port Shelter), part of Sai Kung District in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Sai Kung is the central hub of nearby surrounding villages, and hence the name may also refer to the areas in its immediate surroundings.
Sai Kung Town, or just Sai Kung, was established as a market town for the surrounding villages as, around 100 years ago. Nowadays, in legal documents, the town is more often referred to as. Despite in modern transliteration, usually meaning city, in Classical Chinese, and both mean market. The word was also used by the colonial British government to transliterate the word Town, as in, for example, Tai Po Town.
The name Sai Kung first appeared in Western publications dating back to the early 1900s, but the settlement was at that time only described as "the village of Sai Kung". Sai Kung also probably first appeared on the map of the Xin'an County, made by Simeone Volonteri in 1866. The origins of the name Sai Kung are unknown. Moreover, there are criticisms of the accuracy of Volonteri's map in general, particularly as regards specific place names, such as Green Hill, which historically known as Tuen Mun Hill.
Sai Kung Town, or just Sai Kung, was established as a market town for the surrounding villages as, around 100 years ago. Nowadays, in legal documents, the town is more often referred to as. Despite in modern transliteration, usually meaning city, in Classical Chinese, and both mean market. The word was also used by the colonial British government to transliterate the word Town, as in, for example, Tai Po Town.
The name Sai Kung first appeared in Western publications dating back to the early 1900s, but the settlement was at that time only described as "the village of Sai Kung". Sai Kung also probably first appeared on the map of the Xin'an County, made by Simeone Volonteri in 1866. The origins of the name Sai Kung are unknown. Moreover, there are criticisms of the accuracy of Volonteri's map in general, particularly as regards specific place names, such as Green Hill, which historically known as Tuen Mun Hill.
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Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resumed after the surrender of Japan. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As one of China's two special administrative regions (the other being Macau), Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of "one country, two systems".
Currency / Language
| ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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| HKD | Hong Kong dollar | $ | 2 |
| ISO | Language |
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| ZH | Chinese language |
| EN | English language |