Queen Victoria Street, Hong Kong
| 域多利皇后街 | |
Section of Queen Victoria Street, between Des Voeux Road Central and Queen's Road Central
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| Location | Central, Hong Kong |
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: 22°17′1.43″N 114°09′19.73″E / 22.2837306°N 114.1554806°E |
| North end | Connaught Road Central |
| South end | Queen's Road Central |
Queen Victoria Street (Chinese: 域多利皇后街; pinyin: Yùduōlì Huánghòu Jiē; Cantonese Yale: wik6 do1 lei6 wong4 hau6 gaai1) is a one-way street in Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Named after Queen Victoria, the street stretches from Connaught Road Central to Queen's Road Central. The street is noted for the many landmarks that it runs past, namely Central Market and the headquarters of the Hang Seng Bank.
During the First Opium War, the British occupied Hong Kong in 1841 and one year later, the territory was ceded to them in the Treaty of Nanking. The street is named after Queen Victoria, who was the reigning British monarch at the time Hong Kong was colonized. Although its Chinese name is a mistranslation of "Queen", meaning queen consort instead of queen regnant, it has never been changed to reflect its proper dedication.
At the time of the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, it was believed that Queen Victoria Street would be renamed along with other streets and places in order to erase memories of the colonial past. This was in spite of a statement by the Urban Council declaring it generally had not intention of modifying the names of streets that bore colonial references. However, the renaming did not come to fruition at the handover and the street still retains its royal name to the present day.
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