Yau Tsim Mong

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 . The 2016 By-Census recorded the total population of Yau Tsim Mong District at 342,970.

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. 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".

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

Areas within the district include

Tai Kok TsuiPrince Edward
MTR OlympicstationMong Kok
Mong Kok WestYau Ma Tei
MTR KowloonstationJordan
Kwun Chung
King's Park
SeaTsim Sha TsuiTsim Sha Tsui East

External links

Text taken from Wikipedia - Yau Tsim Mong District under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 on April 14, 2023

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