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San Po Kong

San Po Kong proper noun: an area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

San Po Kong

  1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    • Sanpokong was airport land until about 1960: the industrial area at Kwuntong and part of that at Cheungshawan were reclaimed only in the 1950s.[1977, Frank Leeming, “Time, Place and Community in Hong Kong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN...
    • Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments...1991 October 11, Suzy Menkes, “Hong Kong's Fashion Bargains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2023

Examples of San Po Kong in a sentence

  • Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.1991 October 11, Suzy Menkes, “Hong Kong's Fashion Bargains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr...
  • The electric car burst into flames 30 minutes after being parked in the city’s San Po Kong district on Sunday, the newspaper said, with three explosions seen on CCTV footage.2019 May 14, Donny Kwok, Shellin Li, Yilei Sun, “Tesla car catches fire in Hong Kong parking lot: media”, in James Pomfret, Clarence...
  • Bleak House ended up in San Po Kong, an industrial neighbourhood in Kowloon northeast of Kowloon City, quite simply because the right space became available at the right price at the right time.2019 December 9, Christopher DeWolf, “Hong Kong neighbourhood where spark for 1967 riots was lit, San Po Kong once again playing role in...

Forms of San Po Kong

alternative formSanpokong

Origin of San Po Kong

From Cantonese 新蒲崗 /新蒲岗 (san¹ pou⁴ gong¹).

Questions about San Po Kong

What does San Po Kong mean?
San Po Kong means an area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
How do you use San Po Kong in a sentence?
Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.
What part of speech is San Po Kong?
San Po Kong is a proper noun.

Words near San Po Kong in the dictionary

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  2. San Pedro Sula
  3. San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula
  4. San Pedro-Taloy
  5. San Placido
  6. San Po Kong
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  8. San Polo
  9. San Pornando Valley
  10. San Quentin quail
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