Back مقاطعات هونغ كونغ Arabic Distrikte vo Hongkong BAR Distrikte von Hongkong German Organización territorial de Hong Kong Spanish Hong Kongen banaketa administratiboa Basque منطقههای هنگ کنگ Persian Hongkongin piirit Finnish Districts de Hong Kong French Distretti di Hong Kong Italian 香港の行政区画 Japanese
| Districts of Hong Kong | |
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| Category | Administrative division |
| Location | Hong Kong |
| Number | 18 districts |
| Populations | 137,122 (Islands) – 607,544 (Sha Tin) |
| Areas | 10 km2 (4 sq mi) (Yau Tsim Mong District) – 220 km2 (84 sq mi) (North District) |
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Politics and government of Hong Kong |
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Hong Kong is administratively divided into 18 districts. Each district has a district council.
District councils was formerly called district boards, for which the boards were established in 1982,[1] when Hong Kong was under British rule. However, the districts have limited relevance to the population, as few public services operate according to district boundaries. The police,[2] fire services, health services, education and hospital authorities, and postal service each define their own idiosyncratic geographic divisions.[3]
- ^ Time to revamp Hong Kong's neglected district councils, SCMP, Sonny Lo, 18 November 2013
- ^ "A' Department (Operations) | Hong Kong Police Force".
- ^ Hongkong Post: Delivery Office Information Archived 11 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine