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| Traditional Chinese | 慈雲山 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 慈云山 | ||||||||||
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Tsz Wan Shan (Chinese:慈雲山;Jyutping:ci4 wan4 saan1) is a residential area inKowloon, Hong Kong. Located belowTemple Hill, it is administratively part ofWong Tai Sin District. Temple Hill is also calledTsz Wan Shan慈雲山, but Tsz Wan Shan usually refers to the area.
It is a densely populated residential area, consisting of several large public housing estates. The old Tsz Wan Shan housing blocks (64 buildings in total) were demolished between late 1980s and mid 1990s.
Po Kong Village Road Park is located at 140 Po Kong Village Road. There are elevated cycling track (about 1 kilometre in length), cycling area and skater park. Three vertical rams of different difficulty levels are constructed for co-use by players of extreme sports, namely freestyle BMX, skateboarding and aggressive inline skating.[1]
In the very north of the district, a steep path leads to aKwun Yam temple. The path goes toTemple Hill, part of theMa On Shan Country Park and then joins theMacLehose Trail and theWilson Trail, reaching across theNew Territories.
The first school village in Hong Kong was established in 2002 at Po Kong Village Road, Tsz Wan Shan. It is the only school village in Hong Kong. There are five schools includingInternational Christian Quality Music Secondary and Primary School, Tsz Wan Shan Catholic Primary School, Po Leung Kuk Grandmont Primary School, St. Patrick's Catholic Primary School (Po Kong Village Road) andPo Leung Kuk Celine Ho Yam Tong College.
Tsz Wan Shan is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 45. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net.[2]
Hong Kong Public Libraries maintains the Tsz Wan Shan Public Library in the Tsz Wan Shan Shopping Centre.[3]
Buses: No. 2F, 3B, 3C, 3D, 5C, 15A, 116. Specific time services for 3X, 5P, 302, 302A, A23, E23 & E23A.
Minibuses (Scheduled Services / Green Minibus): No. 18M, 19, 19M, 19S, 20, 37A, 37M, 66S (Night services only), 73.
Minibuses (Red Public Light Buses): FromMong Kok,Tsuen Wan, andJordan Road. Specific time services fromWan Chai,Causeway Bay,North Point, andCastle Peak Road, Kowloon.
Due to the height and the steep inclination of the mountain, there are no railway connections at Tsz Wan Shan. In February 2008, during a site inspection for theSha Tin to Central Link, the thenSecretary for Transport and Housing,Eva Cheng, said the hilly terrain and geological conditions in Tsz Wan Shan made it technically difficult and risky to build a station in this location,[4] despite strong requests fromWong Tai Sin District Council and many local residents.[5]
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| MNew KowloonNKL,2,3,4,5,6,7,9a,10,11,12,14,15,16 |
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Official place names are summarized from "Geoinfo Map" of Government ofHong Kong Special Administrative Region, "Hong Kong Guide" ofLands Department, "Hong Kong Guide Book" of Universal Publications Ltd. and "Areas and Districts" ofRating and Valuation Department. M：Narrow meaning of urban areas KL:Kowloon Peninsula at the south ofBoundary Street NKL: Former New Territories area at the north of Boundary Street and at the south ofLion Rock 1: Common definition (1) 2: Common definition (2) 3: Common definition (3) 4: Areas not adopting small house concessionary right ofindigenous inhabitants 5: Jurisdiction area of formerUrban Council 6: Definition of "Metropolitan Area" ofPlanning Department 7: Jurisdiction area ofUrban Renewal Authority 8: Unique operating area ofurban taxis 9: "Urban" (9a) and "Extended Urban" (9b) areas defined byHong Kong Housing Authority 10: Definition of Urbanrates 11: Hospital cluster belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 12: Police region belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 13: Regions having 999-year land lease 14:Geographical Constituency inHong Kong Legislative Council belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 15:Regional Education Office belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon 16:Primary One Admission School Net belongs to Hong Kong or Kowloon | |||||||||||
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