So Kwun Wat, commonly pronounced So Kwun Fat, is an area on the south coast of the western mainland

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. The proper So Kwun Wat is a populated area in the valley between

Siu Lam Siu Lam () is an area and a village in Tuen Mun District, Hong Kong. Administration Siu Lam is one of the 36 villages represented within the Tuen Mun Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Siu Lam is part of the So Kwun Wat So Kwun Wat, comm ...

and Sam Shing Hui. It includes So Kwun Tan () on the shore, which is a residential area,

Hong Kong Gold Coast Hong Kong Gold Coast is a private housing estate served by Castle Peak Road, near Castle Peak Bay, in So Kwun Wat, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong. Developed by Sino Group, it includes 20 residential buildings completed in two phases (in ...

(), with villas on Pearl Island () off the coast. Administratively, the area belongs to

Tuen Mun District Tuen Mun District is one of the 18 administrative districts of Hong Kong. It is the westernmost continental district of Hong Kong. It had a population of 487,546 in 2011. Part of the district is the Tuen Mun New Town (or simply Tuen Mun), ...

. Northwest of So Kwun Tan is the Perowne Camp ( or ).

Name

The confusion regarding its name originates from a common mistake when a person, with some knowledge of Chinese/Cantonese, tries to guess the pronunciation of the last character in the name, based on the form of its Chinese character. The English transliteration actually came from the correct (but no longer used in everyday life) pronunciation, although it's the common (but technically incorrect) pronunciation that is recognised by the locals. This causes many to wrongly deduce that the transliteration was not properly done. (When in fact it was – much like the case with the name Mong Kok)

Geography

The valley of So Kwun Wat collects water for adjacent ranges and empties into the sea by So Kwun Tan. The area surrounding was reclaimed. A

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is constructed from Gold Coast Hotel towards the Pearl Island. While the interior water formed a haven for boats, the exterior become a man-made beach of Golden Beach ().

Administration

So Kwun Wat is a recognized village under the

Small House Policy The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The Policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...

Transport

The major road access in the area is

Castle Peak Road Castle Peak Road is the longest road in Hong Kong. Completed in 1920, it runs in the approximate shape of an arc of a semi-circle. It runs West from Tai Po Road in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, to Tuen Mun, then north to Yuen Long then east ...

. It is thus also known as 18 miles (milestone) Castle Peak Road ().

Education

* Harrow International School Hong Kong is located in So Kwun Wat. *

Chu Hai College of Higher Education Chu Hai College of Higher Education is a private degree-granting institute in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong. At present, Chu Hai College is recognised as an Approved Post Secondary College under the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance (Cap 320).Chu Hai Coll ...

has been located in So Kwun Wat since August 2016. * Shun Tak Fraternal Association Lee Kam Primary School () is located at No. 23 So Kwun Wat Road. So Kwun Wat is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 71. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government schools are in the school net.

References

External links

Delineation of area of existing village So Kwun Wat (Tuen Mun) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Populated places in Hong Kong Tuen Mun District {{coord, 22.375, 114.001, type:city_region:HK, display=title