Sai Kung

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 西貢／西贡 (sai1 gung3).

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Sai Kung

  1. A town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  2. An area in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2011 January 18, Spollen, Jonathan, “Hong Kong's Forgotten Villages”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-01-19‎:
      A number of villages have been given a new lease of life. In the former Hakka village of Sheung Yiu in Sai Kung, the biggest house has been turned into a museum. Originally from mainland China, many Hakkas moved to Hong Kong in the 17th century, where they established fishing and farming villages, mostly in the New Territories.
  3. A peninsula in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  4. A district of Hong Kong.

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