Yau Tsim Mong District

Yau Tsim Mong District
Yau Tsim Mong District
Traditional Chinese	油尖旺區
Simplified Chinese	油尖旺区
Cantonese Yale	Yàuhdzīmwohng kēui
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yóujiānwàng Qū
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Yàuhdzīmwohng kēui
Jyutping	Jau4zim1wong6 keoi1
IPA	[jɐw˩.tsim˥.wɔŋ˨ kʰɵɥ˥]

Yau Tsim Mong

油尖旺區
Yau Tsim Mong 油尖旺區
District
	Yau Tsim Mong District
	Tsim Sha Tsui skyline Mong Kok West Kowloon Cultural District Hong Kong Space Museum Hong Kong Art Museum K1 Musea at Victoria Dockside Statue of Bruce Lee at the Avenue of the Stars
	Location of Yau Tsim Mong within Hong Kong
	Coordinates: 22°19′17″N 114°10′21″E / 22.32138°N 114.17260°E
Statutorily-defined area	Kowloon
Region	Hong Kong (special administrative region)
Country	China
Constituencies	16‌[needs update]
Government
• District Council Chairman	Lam Kin Man[needs update] (Independent)
• District Council Vice-Chairman	Chu Tsz-Lok
• District Officer	Aron Laura Liang
Population (2021)
• Total	310,647 82.8% Chinese; 7.4% South Asian; 3.9% Filipino;
• Density	44,045/km2 (114,080/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (Hong Kong Time)
Largest neighbourhood by population	Tai Kok Tsui (49,668 – 2016 est)
Location of district office and district council	30 Luen Wan Street‌ [yue], Mong Kok
Website	Yau Tsim Mong District Council

Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon. The district has the second highest population density of all districts, at 49,115 km² (18,963 sq mi).^[3] The 2016 By-Census recorded the total population of Yau Tsim Mong District at 342,970.^[3]

Yau Tsim Mong District contains the urban areas of Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Mong Kok, as well as Ferry Point, King's Park, Kwun Chung, Tai Kok Tsui, Tsim Sha Tsui East, the Union Square and Kowloon Point.^[4] Formerly two districts, the Yau Tsim District and Mong Kok District, it was combined in 1994. Its name is an acronym of the three aforementioned major areas.

History

The district was once called Yau Ma Tei District. It was renamed Yau Tsim District from 1 April 1988 to "remove any misconception that Tsim Sha Tsui was an administrative district separate from Yau Ma Tei".^[5]

Yau Tsim District and Mong Kok District were merged in 1994 to form the new Yau Tsim Mong District.

Areas within the district include

Kowloon Peninsula (West)
Tai Kok Tsui		Prince Edward
MTR Olympic station	Mong Kok
Mong Kok West	Yau Ma Tei
MTR Kowloon station	Jordan Kwun Chung	King's Park
Sea	Tsim Sha Tsui	Tsim Sha Tsui East

Transport

MTR

Six MTR lines serve this district: the Tsuen Wan line, Kwun Tong line, Tung Chung line, East Rail line, Tuen Ma line and the Airport Express.

Tsuen Wan line and Kwun Tong line converge from the north at Prince Edward station, then Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei the line's last station in the district and continue its journey to Whampoa. Tsuen Wan line continued to Jordan and Tsim Sha Tsui stations before crossing the harbour to Hong Kong Island.
Tung Chung line has two stations along the west coast: Kowloon near Jordan and Olympic near Tai Kok Tsui. The former station is also served by the Airport Express.
East Rail line has a station in Mong Kok East, while Hung Hom is on the boundary between Yau Tsim Mong and Kowloon City districts.
Tuen Ma line and converge from the north at Austin station, then East Tsim Sha Tsui station and Hung Hom the line's last station in the district and continue its journey to Ma On Shan.

Major roads

Education

Schools in Yau Tsim Mong District include:

Universities

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

References

^ "2011 Population Census - Fact Sheet for Yau Tsim Mong District Council District" (PDF). Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
^ District Profiles, Hong Kong Government, 8 December 2017, retrieved 15 April 2020
^ ^a ^b "Yau Tsim Mong (District Council, Hong Kong) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". City Population. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
^ "Yau Tsim Mong". Hong Kong Tourism Board. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
^ "Rename for Yau Ma Tei". South China Morning Post. 19 March 1988. p. 3.

External links

[1] "2011 Population Census - Fact Sheet for Yau Tsim Mong District Council District" (PDF). Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved 26 June 2015.

[2] District Profiles, Hong Kong Government, 8 December 2017, retrieved 15 April 2020

[:0-3] "Yau Tsim Mong (District Council, Hong Kong) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". City Population. Retrieved 30 October 2018.

[4] "Yau Tsim Mong". Hong Kong Tourism Board. Retrieved 30 October 2018.

[5] "Rename for Yau Ma Tei". South China Morning Post. 19 March 1988. p. 3.

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