Junk Bay

Junk Bay
Tseung Kwan O
將軍澳 (Chinese)
Aerial view of Junk Bay, with Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate on the right. The waters at the top of the picture are part of Port Shelter.
Junk Bay is located in Hong Kong
Junk Bay
Junk Bay
LocationSai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°17′N 114°16′E / 22.29°N 114.26°E / 22.29; 114.26
TypeBay
Tseung Kwan O
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Cantonese YaleDzēung gwān ou
Literal meaningGeneral's Bay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiāngjūn'ào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDzēung gwān ou
JyutpingZoeng1 gwan1 ou3
IPA[tsœ́ːŋ kʷɐ́n ʔōu]

Junk Bay, also known by its Chinese transliteration Tseung Kwan O or Cheung Kwan O (Chinese: 將軍澳); is a bay in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. In the northern tip of the bay lies the Tseung Kwan O Village.

View of Junk Bay (Tseung Kwan O) in 2019

The Tseung Kwan O New Town, one of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, was mainly built on reclaimed land in the northern half of the bay. The population as of 2011 is about 368,000.[1]

  1. ^ "CEDD - About Us". Archived from the original on 11 February 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2007.