Tin Shui Wai New Town
天水圍新市鎮 | |
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 Tin Shui Wai Sports Ground | |
  Tin Shui Wai New Town Location of Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong | |
| Coordinates: 22°27′36″N 114°00′07″E / 22.460°N 114.002°E | |
| Country | China |
| SAR | Hong Kong |
| District | Yuen Long District |
| Established | 1993[clarification needed] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.3 km2 (1.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 286,232[1] |
| • Density | 67,906/km2 (175,880/sq mi) |
| Website | Yuen Long District Council |
| Mean solar time UTC+08 | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 天水圍新市鎮 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 天水围新市镇 | ||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Tīnséuiwài Sānsíhjan | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Sky Water Walled Village New Town | ||||||||||||
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Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a gei wai (基圍) fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is 25 kilometres (16 mi) due northwest of Central, the main business area in the territory, on land reclaimed from low-lying areas south of Deep Bay, next to Ping Shan. The population was 292,000 in 2014,[needs update] while the total projected population for when the town is fully built-out[when?] is about 306,000.[2]
- ^ District Profiles, Hong Kong Government, 8 December 2017, retrieved 15 April 2020
- ^ "Tin Shui Wai New Town". Civil Engineering and Development Department. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2015.