Kowloon (/ˌkaʊˈluːn/; Chinese: 九龍; Jyutping: gau2lung4; Hong Kong Chinese: Giu3lung2) is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island in the west, the mountain range including Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of 43,033/km2 in 2006. Kowloon is located north of Hong Kong Island and south of the mainland part of the New Territories. The peninsula's area is approximately 47 square kilometres (18 sq mi). Together with Hong Kong Island, they contain 48 percent of Hong Kong's total population.
The systematic transcription Kau Lung or Kau-lung was often used in derived place names before World War II, for example Kau-lung Bay instead of Kowloon Bay. Other spellings include Kauloong and Kawloong.
The name Kowloon stems from the term Nine Dragons, which refers to eight mountains and a Chinese emperor: Kowloon Peak, Tung Shan, Tate's Cairn, Temple Hill, Unicorn Ridge, Lion Rock, Beacon Hill, Crow's Nest and Emperor Bing of Song.
Kowloon is a station on the Tung Chung Line and the Airport Express of Hong Kong's MTR. The station provides in-town check-in service for passengers departing from the Hong Kong International Airport and free shuttle bus services to most major hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei areas.
The station is located less than a kilometre west of Jordan Station on the Tsuen Wan Line.
Escalators link Elements directly with the station concourse.
The station was designed by TFP Farrells. During the planning stage, it was called West Kowloon Station (Chinese: 西九龍站).
On 16 September 2000, the new shopping mall "Dickson CyberExpress" (Chinese: 迪生數碼世界) was opened by Dickson Poon. The size was 70,000 square feet (6,500 m2) spread over four levels of the station with six shopping areas. However, the mall did not have the expected volume of customers and business was weak. After half a year, the mall shrank its size. The mall management company planned to decrease the level of the mall from 4 levels to 3 levels and to combine some of the shopping areas. Business remained poor due to sparse population near the station and a recession at that time. The mall finally closed its operation in 2005.
Kowloon is an urban area that is part of Hong Kong, China.
Kowloon may also refer to:
9 to 5:
suit-and-tie corporation business man
going to the bar again.
Day to day, nothing’s changed.
Got to have that great escape, man!
Money well spent: the company plan.
But you are much better than this.
You are well aware that someday it will gone.
It won’t be there for long.
What will we miss?
All this time your searching for yourself,
but you found somebody else.
He knows her name, she don’t know his.
Favors rendered for his money, you know what she does with it.
Cash is made. Big business
contributing to our downfall and no one expected it.
Your whole life; unsatisfied at home,
your wife and kids, knowing not where Daddy’s been.
That common goal is so far out of reach:
contentment’s something we all seek.
And you are much better than this
and I fear you’re going about this all so wrong.
I know it won’t be long. What will we miss?
All this time you’re searching for yourself,
but you found somebody else.
What do we know? Where to go?
Money from the top goes right down in the drain.
Our major corporations support the American dream.
The workmen buy the whores, the strippers buy the drugs.
Now our top dollars are being pissed out or thrown up.
Well thank you very much, I really needed that.
I’ll see you really soon, I’m very glad we met.
Needless to say, the guy’s got a real bad habit.
But it fuels the economy, so I’m glad he had it.