Kong Ha () is a village in

Sha Tau Kok Sha Tau Kok () is a closed town in North District, Hong Kong. It is the last remaining major settlement in the Frontier Closed Area and is Hong Kong's northernmost town. Its residents are mostly descendants of Hakka farmers and Hoklo fisher ...

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 ...

Administration

Kong Ha is a recognized village under the

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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 ...

History

At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Kong Ha was 135. The number of males was 63. The three

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villages of

Tam Shui Hang Tam Shui Hang () is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of North District, Hong Kong, North District of Hong Kong. The village is divided into upper (Sheung Tam Shui Hang, ), middle and lower (Ha Tam Shui Hang, ) parts. Administration Tam Shui Ha ...

, Tong To and

Shan Tsui Shan Tsui () is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of North District of Hong Kong. Administration Shan Tsui is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within the Sha Tau Kok Distri ...

had a total population of around 1,000 persons in 1961. During the

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, the villagers of these three places removed a

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image from a Man Mo temple located across the border in

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and built a temple at the western end of Kong Ha Village to house the image. The temple was under the management of a special trust, the Sam Wo Tong ().

Features

Kong Ha Village has been described as "containing numerous historic village houses that were built before 1950". The Tang Ancestral Hall is located in Kong Ha Village. Yuen Tuen Shan (), a hill adjacent to the village, features a

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woodland.

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Delineation of area of existing village Kong Ha (Sha Tau Kok) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in North District, Hong Kong Sha Tau Kok {{NorthDistrictHK-geo-stub

Administration

History

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