Tseung Kwan O Tseung Kwan O Saria Category="Bays of Hong Kong"Category="Cities and towns in Hong Kong"Category="New towns in Hong Kong"Category="Sai Kung District"Category="Tseung Kwan O"Tseung Kwan O (Chinese: 將軍澳, Jyutping: zoeng1 gwan1 ou3; Cantonese IPA: /tsœŋ55 kwɐn55 əʊ33/; formerly Junk Bay) is a New town in Hong Kong, mainly built on reclaimed land in the northern half of the bay.

Geography

Tseung Kwan O is a bay within the Sai Kung District on the eastern part of the New Territories, but sometimes people may, although incorrectly, regard it as part of Kowloon due to its close proximity to the city.

Name

In the Chinese language Tseung Kwan (將軍) means "General", and O (澳) means "bay". Therefore, Tseung Kwan O literally means "The Bay of General".

The exact origin of the name Tseung Kwan O is unknown, but it is said to be named in honour of the General of the Ming Dynasty, who visited Tseung Kwan O at some point. Another theory is that the name was chosen in the 17th Century, when naval battles were fought against pirates from Japan at Tseung Kwan O.

History

Before new town development, the area around the bay was a number of fishing towns and villages. The Tseung Kwan O Village in the northern tip of the bay is about 600 years old. Other towns and villages include Rennie's Mill, Hang Hau and Yau Yu Wan. Rennie's Mill was where Kuomintang loyalties were settled following the end of the Chinese Civil War, and Hang Hau had a ship building industry.

Hong Kong Government had been interested in developing a new town at Hang Hau because its proximity to the urban area. It was prosponsed for a long time owning to the difficulty of extensive scale of reclamation in the bay which is rather deep. It finally started under the name of Tseung Kwan O.

The New Town was developed in three phases:

Transport

Tseung Kwan O is served by the Tseung Kwan O Line of the MTR metro system.

It is also connected by a well covered public Bus and Minibus network. Several main roads are connected to the city, which include:

Others

There is an industrial estate in the southeast of the area, which is the seat of an MTR Depot, the future mass housing development Dream City and TVB.

See also

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New towns in Hong Kong [image]
Tsuen Wan (Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi) | Sha Tin (Sha Tin and Ma On Shan) | Tuen Mun | Tai Po | Fanling-Sheung Shui (Fanling and Sheung Shui) | Yuen Long | Tseung Kwan O | Tin Shui Wai | North Lantau (Tung Chung and Tai Ho)