Kowloon City

Calque of Chinese 九龍城／九龙城 (literally “Kowloon City”).

Kowloon City

1. An area in Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
   • 1964 [1958], G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong‎, Oxford University Press, page 267:

     The question of Kowloon City was discussed with Li Hung-chang, Viceroy of Kwantung^{[sic – meaning Kwangtung]} and Kwangsi Provinces, when he passed through the colony in July 1900. A Colonial Office official minuted on this, 'We have definitely decided not to allow the City to fall under Chinese jurisdiction, and have told the Chinese government so, and have passed an order in council including it in the New Territory, and the matter is at an end.' The Foreign Office arrangement of leaving Kowloon City as it was, was dropped, but Chinese opinion in Kwangtung Province continued to regard it as not forming part of the lease.

   • 1994, Bruce Thomas, Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit: A Biography by Bruce Thomas‎, Frog, Ltd., page 4:

     The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport is one of the trickiest in the world; planes approach between steep hills and over the rooftops of Kowloon City to swoop onto a strip of land that juts out into the harbor.

   • 2015, Charley Lanyon; Maloy Luakian; Dorothy So; Kate Springer, Fodor's Hong Kong: With a Side Trip to Macau‎, 24th edition, Fodor's Travel, page 11:

     Immigrants from other parts of Asia also marked out their territories on the city’s culinary map, with Kowloon City known for its Thai food, Tsim Sha Tsui for Indian and Korean, and Causeway Bay for Japanese.

2. A district of Hong Kong.