Sham Shui Po District
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Sham Shui Po 深水埗區 |
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| Sham Shui Po District | ||
Day view of the Sham Shui Po District skyline
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 Location of Sham Shui Po within Hong Kong |
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| Coordinates: 22°19′51″N 114°09′44″E / 22.33074°N 114.16220°ECoordinates: 22°19′51″N 114°09′44″E / 22.33074°N 114.16220°E | ||
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 Hong Kong
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| Region | Kowloon | |
| Constituencies | 21 | |
| Government | ||
| • District Council chairman | Ambrose Cheung BBS, MH, JP (Independent) | |
| • District Officer | Benjamin MOK Kwan-yu | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 9.48 km2 (3.66 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 380,855 | |
| • Density | 40,000/km2 (100,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | Hong Kong Time (UTC+8) | |
| Website | Sham Shui Po District Council | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 深水埗區 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 深水埗区 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shēn shuǐ bù qū |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Sām séui bóu kēui |
| Jyutping | Sam1 seoi2 bou2 keoi1 |
Sham Shui Po District (Chinese: 深水埗區) is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the poorest district in Hong Kong, with a predominantly working-class population of 365,540 and the lowest median household income of all districts. Sham Shui Po has long been home to poorer new immigrants from mainland China. It also saw the birth of public housing projects in the city, as the government sought to resettle those displaced by a devastating fire in its slums. Sham Shui Po also hosted a Vietnamese refugee camp during the influx of migration in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
The district covers the Shek Kip Mei, Sham Shui Po, Cheung Sha Wan, Lai Chi Kok and Yau Yat Chuen areas of New Kowloon, and Stonecutter's Island of Kowloon.
Sham Shui Po District administers:
Sham Shui Po was already a densely populated district in 1950s and 1960s. It is heavily poverty-stricken, having the lowest median monthly domestic household income among the 18 districts. It has the highest percentage of elderly over 65 years. The percentage of new immigrants is also very high.
Local private housing Mei Foo Sun Chuen in Lai Chi Kok, which was built in 1966, was Hong Kong's first large-scale private housing estate, comprising 8 phases with a total of 99 blocks.
Partly because of the large presence of the low-income group in Sham Shui Po, the area has bred many pro-grassroots politicians.
Sham Shui Po is the stronghold of Tam's political party, the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood. Of the 26 District Councillors in Sham Shui Po, nine belong to his group, including party chief Frederick Fung Kin-kee. Fung was returned to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 2000 by direct election in the geographical constituency of Kowloon West, in which Sham Shui Po is the biggest area.
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