Victoria Park, Hong Kong

Victoria Park
維多利亞公園
Victoria Park, Hong Kong
Type	Urban park
Location	Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
Coordinates	22°16′54.18″N 114°11′20.09″E / 22.2817167°N 114.1889139°E / 22.2817167; 114.1889139Coordinates: 22°16′54.18″N 114°11′20.09″E / 22.2817167°N 114.1889139°E / 22.2817167; 114.1889139
Area	19 hectares (47 acres)
Opened	October 1957 (1957-10)
Managed by	Leisure and Cultural Services Department
Status	Open all year
Website	www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/parks/vp/
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	維多利亞公園
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wéiduōlìyà Gōngyuán IPA [u̯ěi̯tu̯ólîi̯â kʊ́ŋy̯ɛ̌n] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Wàhidóleiha Gungjyùhn IPA [wɐ̏itɔ́ːlèiāː kʊ́ŋjy̏ːn] Jyutping Wai4 do1 lei6 aa3 Gung1 jyun4

Victoria Park (Chinese: 維多利亞公園) is a public park in Hong Kong, named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. It is located in Causeway Bay, on the north of Hong Kong Island, between Causeway Bay and Tin Hau MTR stations. It is part of Wan Chai District, bordered by Victoria Park Road and then Victoria Harbour to the north and Causeway Road and Hong Kong Central Library to the south. The park underwent a major revamp in the early 2000s, which gave it many of its new features, including the basketball courts and tennis stadiums.

The park was formerly a typhoon shelter known as Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, part of Victoria Harbour, used as a refuge by fishing boats and yachts during typhoon seasons. In the 1950s, the shelter was reclaimed and the park was built there. The typhoon shelter was then relocated to the north.

The park has long been a gathering place for domestic workers on Sundays, their usual day off. Since the early 2000s, helpers from Indonesia have come to predominate, in and around the western end of the Park, as their numbers in Hong Kong have increased relative to those from the Philippines. The parallel tradition for Filipina domestic workers is to congregate around Statue Square in Central.