Yuen Long

English

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Etymology

From Cantonese 元朗 (jyun4 long5) or an earlier variant.

Proper noun

Yuen Long

  1. An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2019 July 21, Mahtani, Shibani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-21, Asia & Pacific:
      On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.
    • 2021 July 23, Wang, Vivian; Joy Dong; Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-23, Asia Pacific:
      More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 2009, Oon, Helen, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide), First edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:
      The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan[sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai] in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.

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