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<li id="toc-Lease_of_New_Territories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lease_of_New_Territories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1</span> <span>Lease of New Territories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lease_of_New_Territories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-British_assumption_of_sovereignty" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#British_assumption_of_sovereignty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2</span> <span>British assumption of sovereignty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-British_assumption_of_sovereignty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_town_development" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_town_development"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>New town development</span> </div> </a> <ul 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class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Population</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_Kowloon" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_Kowloon"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>New Kowloon</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_Kowloon-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9" title="الأقاليم الجديدة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="الأقاليم الجديدة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeni_%C9%99razil%C9%99r" title="Yeni ərazilər – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Yeni ərazilər" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%9E%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B2" title="নতুন অঞ্চল – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="নতুন অঞ্চল" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-k%C3%A0i" title="Sin-kài – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sin-kài" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%8F_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96_(%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3)" title="Новыя Тэрыторыі (Ганконг) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Новыя Тэрыторыі (Ганконг)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous_Territoris" title="Nous Territoris – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Nous Territoris" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nov%C3%A1_teritoria" title="Nová teritoria – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nová teritoria" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_territorier" title="Nye territorier – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Nye territorier" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Territories" title="New Territories – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="New Territories" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uued_Territooriumid" title="Uued Territooriumid – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Uued Territooriumid" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%AD%CE%B1_%CE%95%CE%B4%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B7" title="Νέα Εδάφη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Νέα Εδάφη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevos_Territorios" title="Nuevos Territorios – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Nuevos Territorios" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaj_Teritorioj" title="Novaj Teritorioj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Novaj Teritorioj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurralde_Berriak" title="Lurralde Berriak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Lurralde Berriak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveaux_Territoires" title="Nouveaux Territoires – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Nouveaux Territoires" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%AEn-kie" title="Sîn-kie – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Sîn-kie" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%EC%A0%9C" title="신제 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="신제" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Teritoriji" title="Novi Teritoriji – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Novi Teritoriji" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_Baru" title="Wilayah Baru – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wilayah Baru" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuovi_Territori" title="Nuovi Territori – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Nuovi Territori" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA" title="הטריטוריות החדשות – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הטריטוריות החדשות" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Aj_ter%C3%BCletek" title="Új területek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Új területek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_(%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3)" title="Нови територии (Хонгконг) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Нови територии (Хонгконг)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilayah_Baharu" title="Wilayah Baharu – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wilayah Baharu" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Territories" title="New Territories – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="New Territories" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E7%95%8C" title="新界 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="新界" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_nye_territoriene_(Hongkong)" title="De nye territoriene (Hongkong) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="De nye territoriene (Hongkong)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowe_Terytoria" title="Nowe Terytoria – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Nowe Terytoria" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novos_Territ%C3%B3rios" title="Novos Territórios – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Novos Territórios" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_(%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3)" title="Новые Территории (Гонконг) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Новые Территории (Гонконг)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Territories" title="New Territories – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="New Territories" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uudet_territoriot" title="Uudet territoriot – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Uudet territoriot" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nya_territorierna" title="Nya territorierna – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Nya territorierna" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a 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top: .3em;">新界</span></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="New Territories (in green) within Hong Kong"><img alt="New Territories (in green) within Hong Kong" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg/250px-Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg/375px-Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg/500px-Hong_Kong_New_Territories.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1454" data-file-height="1083" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">New Territories (in green) within <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-zoom="7" data-lat="22.41" data-lon="114.125" data-overlays="["_95b2268487ffa1d9c383aadc9b0fea3a0157d52e"]" href="/wiki/Special:Map/7/22.41/114.125/en"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,7,22.41,114.125,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=New_Territories&revid=1252929933&groups=_95b2268487ffa1d9c383aadc9b0fea3a0157d52e" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,7,22.41,114.125,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=New_Territories&revid=1252929933&groups=_95b2268487ffa1d9c383aadc9b0fea3a0157d52e 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=New_Territories&params=22.41_N_114.125_E_type:city(3691093)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">22°24′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">114°07′30″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">22.410°N 114.125°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">22.410; 114.125</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">952 km<sup>2</sup> (368 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2011)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">3,691,093</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">3,801/km<sup>2</sup> (9,845/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B08:00" title="UTC+08:00">UTC+08:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Time" title="Hong Kong Time">Hong Kong Time</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color:#b0c4de">New Territories</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hani" style="font-size: 1rem;">新界</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data">San1gaai3</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;">Literal meaning</th><td class="infobox-data">New Frontier</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Xīnjiè</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">ㄒㄧㄣㄐㄧㄝˋ</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Hsin<sup>1</sup>-chieh<sup>4</sup></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin" title="Yale romanization of Mandarin">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Syīn jyèh</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[ɕíntɕjê]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Hakka_Chinese" title="Hakka Chinese">Hakka</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Guangdong_Romanization#Hakka" title="Guangdong Romanization">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Hakka-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="hak-Latn">Sin<sup>1</sup> Gai<sup>4</sup></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Sān'gaai</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">San1gaai3</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="yue-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[sɐn˥.kaj˧]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Min" title="Southern Min">Southern Min</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hokkien" title="Hokkien">Hokkien</a> <a href="/wiki/Pe%CC%8Dh-%C5%8De-j%C4%AB" title="Pe̍h-ōe-jī">POJ</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Min Nan Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="nan-Latn">Sin-kài</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>New Territories</b> (abbr. N.T. , <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Chinese</a>: 新界) is one of the three <a href="/wiki/Areas_of_Hong_Kong" title="Areas of Hong Kong">areas of Hong Kong</a>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Island" title="Hong Kong Island">Hong Kong Island</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Kowloon_Peninsula" title="Kowloon Peninsula">Kowloon Peninsula</a>. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it is the region described in the <a href="/wiki/The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory">Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory</a>. According to that treaty, the territories comprise the mainland area north of <a href="/wiki/Boundary_Street" title="Boundary Street">Boundary Street</a> on the Kowloon Peninsula and south of the <a href="/wiki/Sham_Chun_River" title="Sham Chun River">Sham Chun River</a> (which is the border between Hong Kong and <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>), as well as over 200 <a href="/wiki/Outlying_Islands,_Hong_Kong" title="Outlying Islands, Hong Kong">outlying islands</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Lantau_Island" title="Lantau Island">Lantau Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lamma_Island" title="Lamma Island">Lamma Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheung_Chau" title="Cheung Chau">Cheung Chau</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peng_Chau" title="Peng Chau">Peng Chau</a> in the territory of Hong Kong. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Butterfly_Bay,_Tuen_Mun,_NT,_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Butterfly_Bay%2C_Tuen_Mun%2C_NT%2C_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg/220px-Butterfly_Bay%2C_Tuen_Mun%2C_NT%2C_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Butterfly_Bay%2C_Tuen_Mun%2C_NT%2C_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg/330px-Butterfly_Bay%2C_Tuen_Mun%2C_NT%2C_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Butterfly_Bay%2C_Tuen_Mun%2C_NT%2C_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg/440px-Butterfly_Bay%2C_Tuen_Mun%2C_NT%2C_Hong_Kong_in_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Butterfly Bay in New Territories</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg/220px-HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg/330px-HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg/440px-HKRegionalCouncilFlag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="225" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Regional_Council_(Hong_Kong)" title="Regional Council (Hong Kong)">New Territories Regional Council</a>, which was disbanded on the last day of 1999</figcaption></figure> <p>Later, after <a href="/wiki/New_Kowloon" title="New Kowloon">New Kowloon</a> was defined from the area between the Boundary Street and the Kowloon Ranges spanned from <a href="/wiki/Lai_Chi_Kok" title="Lai Chi Kok">Lai Chi Kok</a> to <a href="/wiki/Lei_Yue_Mun" title="Lei Yue Mun">Lei Yue Mun</a>, and the extension of the urban areas of Kowloon, New Kowloon was gradually urbanised and absorbed into Kowloon. </p><p>The New Territories now comprises only the mainland north of the Kowloon Ranges and south of the Sham Chun River, as well as the Outlying Islands. It comprises an area of 952 square kilometres (368 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-britannica_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannica-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, New Kowloon has remained statutorily part of the New Territories instead of Kowloon. </p><p>The New Territories were leased from <a href="/wiki/Qing_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Qing Dynasty">Qing</a> <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> by the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> in 1898 for 99 years in the <a href="/wiki/Second_Convention_of_Peking" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Convention of Peking">Second Convention of Peking</a> (The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory). Upon the expiry of the lease, <a href="/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong">sovereignty was transferred</a> to the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> in 1997, together with the Qing-ceded territories of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. </p><p>In 2021, the population of the New Territories was recorded at 3,984,077,<sup id="cite_ref-census2021_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2021-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a population density of 4,140 per square kilometre (10,720/sq mi). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lease_of_New_Territories">Lease of New Territories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Lease of New Territories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg/220px-Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg/330px-Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg/440px-Map_of_The_Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory_in_1898_-_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1680" data-file-height="1310" /></a><figcaption>A map of the leased New Territories and <a href="/wiki/New_Kowloon" title="New Kowloon">New Kowloon</a> during the 1898 <a href="/wiki/Convention_for_the_Extension_of_Hong_Kong_Territory" title="Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory">Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Island" title="Hong Kong Island">Hong Kong Island</a> was ceded to <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britain</a> in 1842 and <a href="/wiki/Kowloon" title="Kowloon">Kowloon</a> south of <a href="/wiki/Boundary_Street" title="Boundary Street">Boundary Street</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stonecutters_Island" title="Stonecutters Island">Stonecutters Island</a> in 1860. The colony of Hong Kong attracted a large number of Chinese and Westerners to seek their fortune in the city. Its population increased rapidly and the city became overcrowded. The outbreak of <a href="/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">bubonic plague</a> in 1894 became a concern to the <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Hong Kong Government">Hong Kong Government</a>. There was a need to expand the colony to accommodate its growing population. The <a href="/wiki/Qing_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Qing Dynasty">Qing Dynasty</a>'s defeat in the <a href="/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War" title="First Sino-Japanese War">First Sino-Japanese War</a> had shown that it was incapable of defending itself. <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_Hong_Kong" title="Victoria, Hong Kong">Victoria City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Harbour" title="Victoria Harbour">Victoria Harbour</a> were vulnerable to any hostile forces launching attacks from the hills of Kowloon. </p><p>Alarmed by the encroachment of other European powers in China, Britain also feared for the security of Hong Kong. Using the <a href="/wiki/Most_favoured_nation" title="Most favoured nation">most favoured nation</a> clause that it had negotiated with Peking, the United Kingdom demanded the extension of Kowloon to counter the influence of France in southern China in June 1898. In July, it secured <a href="/wiki/Weihaiwei_under_British_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Weihaiwei under British rule">Weihaiwei</a> in Shandong in the north as a base for operations against the Germans in <a href="/wiki/Qingdao" title="Qingdao">Qingdao</a> (Tsingtao) and the Russians in Port Arthur. Chinese officials stayed in the walled cities of <a href="/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City" title="Kowloon Walled City">Kowloon City</a> and Weihaiwei. </p><p>The extension of Kowloon was called the New Territories. The additional land was estimated to be 365 square miles (950 km<sup>2</sup>) or 12 times the size of the existing <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial Hong Kong">Colonial Hong Kong</a> at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_assumption_of_sovereignty">British assumption of sovereignty</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: British assumption of sovereignty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/New_Territories" title="Special:EditPage/New Territories">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg/220px-British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg/330px-British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg/440px-British_take_over_the_New_Territories.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="487" /></a><figcaption>The British ceremony in Tai Po, 1899, assuming control of the New Territories</figcaption></figure> <p>Although the convention was signed on the 9 June 1898 and became effective on 1 July, the British did not take over the New Territories immediately. During this period, there was no <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Governor" class="mw-redirect" title="Hong Kong Governor">Hong Kong Governor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wilsone_Black" title="Wilsone Black">Wilsone Black</a> acted as administrator. <a href="/wiki/James_Stewart_Lockhart" title="James Stewart Lockhart">James Stewart Lockhart</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Secretary_of_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong">Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong</a>, was sent back from England to make a survey of New Territories before formal transfer. The survey found that the new frontier at Sham Chun River (Shenzhen river) suggested by Wilsone Black was far from ideal. It excluded the town of <a href="/wiki/Shenzhen" title="Shenzhen">Shenzhen</a> (Sham Chun), and the boundary would divide the town. There was no mountain range as a natural border. Lockhart suggested moving the frontier to the line of hills north of Shenzhen. This suggestion was not received favourably and the Chinese official suggested the frontier be moved to the hill much further south of the Sham Chun River. It was settled in March 1899 that the boundary remain at the Sham Chun River. </p><p>The new Hong Kong Governor, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Arthur_Blake" title="Henry Arthur Blake">Henry Blake</a> arrived in November 1898. The date for the takeover of the New Territories was fixed as 17 April 1899, and <a href="/wiki/Tai_Po" title="Tai Po">Tai Po</a> was chosen as the administrative centre. The transfer was not smooth and peaceful. In early April 1899, Captain Superintendent of Police, <a href="/wiki/Francis_Henry_May" title="Francis Henry May">Francis Henry May</a> and some policemen erected a flagstaff and temporary headquarters at Tai Po and posted the Governor's proclamation of the takeover date. Fearing for their traditional land rights, in the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War_(1899)" title="Six-Day War (1899)">Six-Day War of 1899</a>, a number of clans attempted to resist the British, mobilising clan militias<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that had been organised and armed to protect against longshore raids by pirates. The militia men attempted a frontal attack against the temporary police station in Tai Po that was the main British base but were beaten back by superior force of arms. An attempt by the clansmen at guerilla warfare was put down by the British near <a href="/wiki/Lam_Tsuen" title="Lam Tsuen">Lam Tsuen</a> with over 500 Chinese men killed, and collapsed when British artillery was brought to bear on the <a href="/wiki/Walled_villages_of_Hong_Kong" title="Walled villages of Hong Kong">walled villages</a> of the clansmen. Most prominent of the villages in the resistance <a href="/wiki/Kat_Hing_Wai" title="Kat Hing Wai">Kat Hing Wai</a>, of the <a href="/wiki/Tang_clan" class="mw-redirect" title="Tang clan">Tang clan</a>, was symbolically disarmed, by having its main gates dismounted and removed. However, in order to prevent future resistance the British made concessions to the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_inhabitants_of_the_New_Territories_(Hong_Kong)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories (Hong Kong)">indigenous inhabitants</a> with regards to land use, land inheritance and marriage laws; the majority of which remained in place into the 1960s when polygamy was outlawed. Some of the concessions with regard to land use and inheritance remain in place in Hong Kong to this day and is a source of friction between indigenous inhabitants and other Hong Kong residents. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lugard" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Lugard">Lord Lugard</a> was Governor from 1907 to 1912, and he proposed the return of <a href="/wiki/Weihaiwei_under_British_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Weihaiwei under British rule">Weihaiwei</a> to the Chinese government, in return for the ceding of the leased New Territories in perpetuity. The proposal was not received favourably, although if it had been acted on, Hong Kong might have remained forever in British hands. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_town_development">New town development</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: New town development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/New_towns_of_Hong_Kong" title="New towns of Hong Kong">New towns of Hong Kong</a></div> <p>Much of the New Territories was, and to a limited extent still is, made up of rural areas. Attempts at modernising the area did not become fully committed until the late 1970s, when many <a href="/wiki/New_town#Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="New town">new towns</a> were built to accommodate the population growth from urbanised areas of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. Despite rapid development of the new towns, which now accommodate a population of over 3 million, the <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Hong Kong Government">Hong Kong Government</a> confines built-up areas to a few areas and reserves large parts of the region as <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Country_Parks" class="mw-redirect" title="Hong Kong Country Parks">parkland</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sovereignty_transfer_to_the_PRC">Sovereignty transfer to the PRC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Sovereignty transfer to the PRC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As the expiry date of the lease neared in the 1980s, talks between the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> led to the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration" title="Sino-British Joint Declaration">Sino-British Joint Declaration</a> (1984), in which the whole of Hong Kong would be returned, instead of only the New Territories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Districts">Districts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The New Territories comprises nine <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Hong_Kong" title="Districts of Hong Kong">districts</a> each with their own <a href="/wiki/District_Councils_of_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="District Councils of Hong Kong">District Council</a>: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Territories_East" title="New Territories East">New Territories East</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_District,_Hong_Kong" title="North District, Hong Kong">North District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sai_Kung_District" title="Sai Kung District">Sai Kung District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sha_Tin_District" title="Sha Tin District">Sha Tin District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_Po_District" title="Tai Po District">Tai Po District</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Territories_West" title="New Territories West">New Territories West</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islands_District,_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Islands District, Hong Kong">Islands District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kwai_Tsing_District" title="Kwai Tsing District">Kwai Tsing District</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kwai_Chung" title="Kwai Chung">Kwai Chung</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tsing_Yi" title="Tsing Yi">Tsing Yi Island</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsuen_Wan_District" title="Tsuen Wan District">Tsuen Wan District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuen_Mun_District" title="Tuen Mun District">Tuen Mun District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuen_Long_District" title="Yuen Long District">Yuen Long District</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Census_in_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Census in Hong Kong">2021 census</a>, the population of the New Territories was 3,984,077, representing 53.7% of Hong Kong's total population. 90.4% of the residents of New Territories use <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantonese language">Cantonese</a> as their main language. 3.5% of its residents use <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, 2.0% use <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese">Mandarin Chinese</a>, and 2.3% of New Territories' residents use other Chinese dialects. 93.1% of the district's population is of <a href="/wiki/Han_Chinese" title="Han Chinese">Chinese</a> descent. The largest ethnic minority groups are <a href="/wiki/Filipinos" title="Filipinos">Filipinos</a> (2.1%), <a href="/wiki/Indonesians" title="Indonesians">Indonesians</a> (1.8%), <a href="/wiki/South_Asian_ethnic_groups" class="mw-redirect" title="South Asian ethnic groups">South Asians</a> (1.1%), <a href="/wiki/Mixed_ethnicity" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed ethnicity">Mixed</a> (0.8%) and <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">Whites</a> (0.7%). <sup id="cite_ref-census2021_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2021-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="New_Kowloon">New Kowloon</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: New Kowloon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/New_Kowloon" title="New Kowloon">New Kowloon</a> covers the entirety of the <a href="/wiki/Wong_Tai_Sin_District" title="Wong Tai Sin District">Wong Tai Sin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kwun_Tong_District" title="Kwun Tong District">Kwun Tong</a> districts, as well as the mainland portion of the <a href="/wiki/Sham_Shui_Po_District" title="Sham Shui Po District">Sham Shui Po District</a> (i.e. excluding the <a href="/wiki/Stonecutters_Island" title="Stonecutters Island">Stonecutters Island</a>) and the northern portion of the <a href="/wiki/Kowloon_City_District" title="Kowloon City District">Kowloon City District</a> (portion to the north of Boundary Street/Prince Edward Road West<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>, as well as reclaimed land including the <a href="/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport" title="Kai Tak Airport">Kai Tak Airport</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Territories&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080415193105/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9055517/New-Territories">Archived</a> from the original on 15 April 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=New+Territories+%28region%2C+Hong+Kong%2C+China%29&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pub=britannica.com&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Feb%2Farticle-9055517%2FNew-Territories&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANew+Territories" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-census2021-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-census2021_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-census2021_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240205043152/https://www.census2021.gov.hk/en/district_profiles.html">"2021 Population Census District Profiles"</a>. 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ISBN Volume One 962-7283-59-2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091027114956/http://hk.geocities.com/yingconghk/NT.htm">"The reason behind the resistance by the New Territories inhabitants against British takeover in 1899"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hk.geocities.com/yingconghk/NT.htm">the original</a> on 27 October 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B38632111.pdf">The Suburbanization of Rural Villages in the New Territories, Hong Kong</a>." (Working Paper No. 38) (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131224103715/http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CADAL/B38632111.pdf">Archive</a>) <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hong_Kong" title="University of Hong Kong">University of Hong Kong</a> Centre of Urban Studies & Urban Planning (CUSUP, 城市研究及城市規劃中心). April 1989.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeeDiStefano2002" class="citation book cs1">Lee, Ho Yin; DiStefano, Lynne Delehanty (2002). <i>A Tale of Two Villages: The Story of Changing Village Life in the New Territories</i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-592859-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-592859-4"><bdi>978-0-19-592859-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span 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