Sentence examples for kowloon from inspiring English sources

Kowloon Peninsula, Kowloon also spelled Kaulun or Kaulung, Chinese (Pinyin) Jiulong or (Wade-Giles romanization) Chiu-lung, part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, southeastern China.

If you're down in Kowloon you get that real expat community, but if you go to the northern part of Hong Kong, which is the new territory, then you get a real sense of tradition and authenticity.

Hong Kong Island and its adjacent islets have an area of only about 31 square miles (81 square km), while urban Kowloon, which includes the Kowloon Peninsula south of Boundary Street, and Stonecutters Island measure about 18 square miles (47 square km).

The streets of Kowloon are a fashion parade in themselves, and watching the diminutive fashionistas sashay past is an education in dressing for the smaller figure that no magazine article could ever teach.

In Hong Kong, the West Kowloon Cultural District will be home to M+, a new museum of Chinese contemporary art.

The more upmarket designer shops are on Hong Kong Island, but I was on a budget and sticking with the tiny bargains in Kowloon.

Passenger and freight rail services are provided by the Kowloon-Canton Railway (in operation since 1910).

In 1860, it ceded the Kowloon peninsula.

The principal urban areas are established on Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, where roughly half of the total population lives.

Later that year the Chinese signed the Beijing Convention, in which they agreed to observe the treaties of Tianjin and also ceded to the British the southern portion of the Kowloon Peninsula adjacent to Hong Kong.

It comprises the northern portion of the Kowloon Peninsula from Mirs Bay (Dapeng Wan) on the east to Deep Bay (Shenzhen, or Houhai, Wan), an inlet of the Pearl River Delta, on the west and includes Lantau (Lantao) and other islands.