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Hankow Road () is a street in
Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui ( zh, c=尖沙咀), often abbreviated as TST, is an list of areas of Hong Kong, area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed ...
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Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat ...
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Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
. It runs in the north-south direction from
Salisbury Road Salisbury Road ( Chinese: 梳士巴利道) is a major road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Description It runs parallel to Victoria Harbour, starting from its western end at the Star Ferry Pier, passing by Blackhead Point, to Tsim Sh ...
to
Haiphong Road Haiphong Road (Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: 海防道) is a road south of Kowloon Park, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. The road links Canton Road and Nathan Road. History It was initially named as Elgin Street but its name changed in 19 ...
and is 370 metres in length. It was initially named Garden Road but was renamed Hankow Road after the
Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...
city of
Hankow Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...
in 1909, due to the inconvenience caused by a road of the same name in Central.


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List of streets and roads in Hong Kong The following are incomplete lists of Controlled-access highway, expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, Avenue (landscape), avenues, streets, crescents, Town square, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong. Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to ...


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