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Kowloon is located north of Hong Kong Island and south of the mainland part of the New Territories.
It comprises the following districts:
Kowloon covers two geographical constituencies for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong:
The part of Kowloon south of Boundary Street was ceded from Qing ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute to BritainThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly under the Convention of PekingThe Convention of Peking ( October 18, 1860), also known as the First Convention of Peking was a treaty between the Qing Government of China and the British Empire. Article 6 of the Convention stipulates that China was to cede a part of the Kowloon Penins of 1860Events March 6 Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut April 3 The Pony Express makes its first run. May 9 The Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States. May 13 Batt. For many years the area remained largely undeveloped, used by the British mainly for tigerTigers Panthera tigris are mammals of the Felidae family, one of four " big cats" that belong to the Panthera genus. Tigers are predatory carnivores. Tigers are easily recognizable by their stripes and their tawny fur color, which may range from yellow to-hunting expeditions.
The part of Kowloon north of Boundary Street ( New KowloonIn modern day Hong Kong, New Kowloon is the part of Kowloon north of Boundary Street. Historically, The part of Kowloon south of Boundary Street was ceded from Qing China to Britain in 1860 by the Convention of Peking; however the part of Kowloon north of) was leased from Qing China to Britain as part of the New Territories in 1898Events January 1 New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. January 13 Emile Zola's J'accus for 99 years. Within New Kowloon is the Kowloon City, which refers to a district where the Kowloon Walled City used to be located. The Kowloon Walled City itself was demolished in 1993. (The same region was called Guanfuchang (官富場) during the Song Dynasty.)
In modern day conversations, however, New Kowloon is often not regarded as part of the New Territories, but as an integral part of the Kowloon urban area on both sides of Boundary Street.
Large-scale development of Kowloon began in the early 20th Century, with the construction of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, the Kowloon Wharf, and the Kai Tak Airport. Precisely because of the airport, building height restrictions had been in place for many years. Yet Kowloon still became extremely congested, especially after the Second World War, when slums for refugees from China gave way to public housings, mixed with private residential, commercial and industrial areas.
On July 1, 1997, Both parts of Kowloon were returned to China along with the rest of Hong Kong.