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 Boundary Street near Prince Edward, Hong Kong | |
| Native name | 界限街 (Yue Chinese) |
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| Former name(s) | Old Frontier Line |
| Location | Kowloon,Hong Kong |
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Boundary Street is a three-lane one-way street inKowloon,Hong Kong. It runs in an easterly direction from its start at the intersection withTung Chau Street in the west, and ends at its intersection withPrince Edward Road West in the east, near the formerKai Tak Airport.
The street previously marked the boundary between the southern part of Kowloon, ceded by theQing dynasty toGreat Britain in 1860 along withStonecutters Island, and the northern part of Kowloon (New Kowloon) (which remained part of China until it was leased as part of theNew Territories to the United Kingdom in 1898 for 99 years under theSecond Convention of Peking).[1] After the lease, the boundary was renamed fromBoundary Line toOld Frontier Line.
The boundary was marked by a long line of tall bamboo fences, which effectively blocked smuggling between Chinese Kowloon and British Kowloon at that time. The barrier became obsolete when the New Territories joined the colony.
Although the street marks the historical boundary, the road did not come to exist until 1934, more than 30 years after the lease of boundary north. The road was built to accelerate the development ofKowloon Tong and identify the difference in calculation ofrates between the boundary north and south.
In everyday life,New Kowloon is no longer regarded as part of theNew Territories, but as part of theKowloon urban area (on both sides of Boundary Street), except for statutory andland rent proposes, where the original arrangement has remained in place.
Administratively its portion west of theEast Rail line forms part of the boundary betweenYau Tsim Mong andSham Shui Po districts, until the former western coast of the peninsula, from whereupon the boundary follows the streets on the reclamation.
On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of the territories on both sides of Boundary Street washanded over from theUnited Kingdom to thePeople's Republic of China, along with the rest of Hong Kong.
Geographic data related toBoundary Street atOpenStreetMap 
