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Queen's Road, Hong Kong

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Queen's Road is a collection of roads along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong, within the limit of Victoria City. [1]

45 relations: Admiralty, Hong Kong, Bonham Strand, British Hong Kong, British Overseas Territories, Central, Hong Kong, Chinese language, Communist Party of China, Constance Gordon-Cumming, Coolie, Des Voeux Road, Garden Road, Hong Kong, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, Hennessy Road, Henry Pottinger, History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s), Hollywood Road, Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong University Press, International Finance Centre (Hong Kong), Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Land reclamation in Hong Kong, Lin Xi, List of places named after Queen Victoria, List of streets and roads in Hong Kong, Lo Ta-yu, Ovolo Hotels, Oxford University Press, Possession Street, Queen consort, Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Street, Hong Kong, Queen's Road East, Queensway (Hong Kong), Royal Engineers, Sai Ying Pun, Shek Tong Tsui, Sheung Wan, Tai-pan, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Victoria Harbour, Victoria, Hong Kong, Vintage Books, Wan Chai.

Admiralty, Hong Kong

Admiralty is the eastern extension of the central business district (adjacent to, but separate from, Central) on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong.

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Bonham Strand

Bonham Strand (Chinese: 文咸街) is a combination of two streets in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong: Bonham Strand (文咸東街) and Bonham Strand West (文咸西街).

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British Hong Kong

British Hong Kong was the period during which Hong Kong was under British Crown rule, from 1841 to 1997 (excluding the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945).

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British Overseas Territories

The British Overseas Territories (BOT) or United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are 14 territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

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Central, Hong Kong

Central (also Central District) is the central business district of Hong Kong.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.

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Constance Gordon-Cumming

Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter.

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Coolie

The word coolie (also spelled koelie, kuli, cooli, cooly and quli); (Hindi: कुली, Tamil: கூலி, Telugu: కూలీ, Chinese: 苦力) meaning a labourer, has a variety of other implications and is sometimes regarded as offensive or a pejorative, depending upon the historical and geographical context.

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Des Voeux Road

Des Voeux Road Central and Des Voeux Road West are two roads on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Garden Road, Hong Kong

Garden Road is a major road on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, connecting the Central and Mid-levels areas.

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Happy Valley, Hong Kong

Happy Valley is an upper-income residential area in Hong Kong, located on Hong Kong Island.

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Hennessy Road

Hennessy Road is a thoroughfare on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Henry Pottinger

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet, GCB, PC (Chinese: 砵甸乍; 3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who became the first Governor of Hong Kong.

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History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s)

Hong Kong (1800s–1930s) was a period largely dominated by the British Empire.

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Hollywood Road

Hollywood Road is a street in Central and Sheung Wan, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Club

The Hong Kong Club is the first Gentlemen's club in Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong Island

Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong University Press

Hong Kong University Press is the university press of the University of Hong Kong.

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International Finance Centre (Hong Kong)

The International Finance Centre (abbr. IFC, branded as "ifc") is a skyscraper and an integrated commercial development on the waterfront of Hong Kong's Central District.

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong (香港日據時期) began when the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to Imperial Japan on 25 December 1941.

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Kowloon

Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon.

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Land reclamation in Hong Kong

The reclamation of land from the ocean has long been used in mountainous Hong Kong to expand the limited supply of usable land with a total of around 60 square kilometres of land created by 1996.

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Lin Xi

Albert Leung (born 7 December 1961), whose pen name is Lin Xi (林夕), is a prolific and award-winning lyricist based in Hong Kong.

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List of places named after Queen Victoria

A large number of places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria.

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List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

The following are incomplete lists of notable motorways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong.

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Lo Ta-yu

Lo Ta-yu (born 20 July 1954), also known as Luo Dayou and Law Tai-yau, is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter.

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Ovolo Hotels

Ovolo Hotels (Chinese: 奧華酒店) is an independent hotel brand and serviced apartment owner-operator headquartered in Hong Kong.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Possession Street

Possession Street is a street in Sheung Wan, from Queen's Road West to Hollywood Road, on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

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Queen consort

A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king (or an empress consort in the case of an emperor).

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Queen Victoria Street, Hong Kong

Queen Victoria Street is a one-way street in Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

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Queen's Road East

Queen's Road East is a street in Wan Chai, in the north of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, connecting Admiralty in the west to Happy Valley in the east.

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Queensway (Hong Kong)

Queensway is a major road in the Admiralty area of Central, Hong Kong.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.

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Sai Ying Pun

Sai Ying Pun is an area in Western District, in the northwestern part of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

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Shek Tong Tsui

Shek Tong Tsui is an area in Sai Wan on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

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Sheung Wan

Sheung Wan is an area in Hong Kong, located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island, between Central and Sai Ying Pun.

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Tai-pan

A tai-pan (Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English", American Speech, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 414-415. literally 'top class',汉英词典 — A Chinese-English Dictionary 1988 新华书店北京发行所发行 (Beijing Xinhua Bookshop). or 'big shot') is a senior business executive or entrepreneur operating in China or Hong Kong.

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Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong

The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in Mainland China, took place on 1 July 1997.

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Victoria Harbour

Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour situated between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon in Hong Kong.

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Victoria, Hong Kong

The City of Victoria, often called Victoria City or simply Victoria, was the de facto capital of Hong Kong during the British colonial period.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a publishing imprint established in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf.

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Wan Chai

Wan Chai is a metropolitan area situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

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Redirects here:

Queen's Road Central, Queen's Road West, Queen’s Road Central.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Road,_Hong_Kong

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