The name Ma-on has been used for four

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...

s in the Western Pacific Ocean. This name was provided by

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 ...

and is the name of

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New Territories The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...

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Typhoon Ma-on (2004) Typhoon Ma-on, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Rolly, was a powerful typhoon that produced record breaking wind gusts across the Tokyo Metropolitan Area during early October 2004. It was the strongest typhoon to hit the region since Ty ...

(T0422, 26W, Rolly) – a Category 5 typhoon that made landfall on Japan's

Izu Peninsula The is a mountainous peninsula with a deeply indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, Japan, the largest of the four main islands of Japan. Formerly known as Izu Province, Izu peninsu ...

, killing 6 people. *

Typhoon Ma-on (2011) Typhoon Ma-on, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ineng, was a large and powerful typhoon that affected southern Japan in mid-July 2011. It was the sixth named storm and second typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season. Originating from an area ...

(T1106, 08W, Ineng) – struck

Shikoku is the smallest of the List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ...

in Japan before recurving to the open sea. * Tropical Storm Ma-on (2016) (T1624, 27W) – stayed at sea through its duration. * Severe Tropical Storm Ma-on (2022) (T2209, 10W, Florita) – affected northern Philippines, South China and northern Vietnam. After the 2022 storm, the name ''Ma-on'' was announced to be retired and will no longer be used. In 2024, the name was replaced by ''Tsing-ma'', which refers to the

Tsing Ma Bridge Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong that connects Tsing Yi and Ma Wan islands. It is the world's 17th-longest span suspension bridge, and was the second longest at the time of its completion. The bridge was named after the two islands ...

in Hong Kong that connects to the main

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