List of islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong



Hong Kong comprises the Kowloon Peninsula and 263 islands over 500 m2, the largest being Lantau Island and the second largest being Hong Kong Island. Ap Lei Chau is one of the most densely populated islands in the world.

Hong Kong Island is historically the political and commercial centre of Hong Kong. It was the site of the initial settlement of Victoria City, where the financial district of Central is now located. Most of the other islands are commonly referred to as the Outlying Islands.

The Kowloon Peninsula, across Victoria Harbour from Hong Kong Island is another notable commercial centre in Hong Kong.

In terms of the districts of Hong Kong, while one of the 18 districts is called the Islands District, many islands of Hong Kong are actually not part of that district, which only consists of some twenty large and small islands in the southern and the south-western waters of Hong Kong. These islands belong to respective districts depending on their locations.

Peninsulas
Below is a partial list of the peninsulas of Hong Kong and the districts they belong to:

Mainland

 * Clear Water Bay Peninsula
 * Fu Tau Sha Peninsula
 * Kowloon Peninsula – Geographically, it refers to the area south of the mountain ranges of Beacon Hill, Lion Rock, Tate's Cairn, Kowloon Peak, etc. and covers five districts itself. Historically, only the portion south of Boundary Street was ceded to Britain by the Convention of Peking in 1860, covering the area of only one district in its entirety (Yau Tsim Mong) and portions of two other districts (southwestern part of Kowloon City, Stonecutters Island of Sham Shui Po).
 * Sai Kung Peninsula
 * Pak Sha Wan Peninsula
 * Sha Tau Kok Peninsula
 * Wan Tsai Peninsula

Hong Kong Island

 * Cape D'Aguilar – Southern District
 * Shek O Peninsula – Southern District
 * Red Hill Peninsula
 * Stanley – Southern District

Lantau Island

 * Chi Ma Wan Peninsula – Islands District
 * Fan Lau

Former peninsulas

 * Tai Kok Tsui – Yau Tsim Mong District, can hardly be identified on maps now, due to land reclamation.
 * Texaco Peninsula – Kwai Tsing District

Islands
Below is a partial list of the islands of Hong Kong and the districts they belong to:


 * A Chau (, Centre Island) – Tai Po
 * A Chau – North
 * Adamasta Rock – Islands
 * Ap Chau Mei Pak Tun Pai – North
 * Ap Chau Pak Tun Pai – North
 * Ap Chau (, Robinson Island) – North
 * Ap Lei Chau (, Aberdeen Island) – Southern
 * Ap Lei Pai – Southern
 * Ap Lo Chun – North
 * Ap Tan Pai – North
 * Ap Tau Pai – North
 * Bay Islet (, See Chau) – Sai Kung
 * Breaker Reef – Tai Po
 * Bun Bei Chau – Sai Kung
 * Bun Sha Pai – Tai Po
 * Cha Kwo Chau – Islands
 * Cha Yue Pai – Sai Kung
 * Cham Pai – Tai Po
 * Cham Pai – Sai Kung
 * Cham Tau Chau – Sai Kung
 * Chap Mo Chau – North
 * Chau Tsai Kok – Tai Po
 * Chau Tsai – Sai Kung
 * Che Lei Pai – Tai Po
 * Chek Chau (, Port Island) – Tai Po
 * Chek Lap Kok – Islands – now assimilated with Lam Chau into the airport platform and connected to Lantau Island by two bridges
 * Cheung Chau – Islands
 * Cheung Shek Tsui – North
 * Cheung Sok – Tsuen Wan
 * Cheung Tsui Chau – Sai Kung
 * Ching Chau (, distinct from Steep Island) – Sai Kung
 * Conic Island – Sai Kung
 * Douglas Rock – Islands
 * Flat Island (, Ngan Chau) – Tai Po
 * Fo Shek Chau (, Basalt Island) – Sai Kung
 * Fo Siu Pai – Sai Kung
 * Fu Wong Chau – North
 * Fun Chau – North
 * Green Island – Central & Western
 * Ha So Pai – Islands
 * Hau Tsz Kok Pai – Tai Po
 * Hei Ling Chau – Islands
 * Hin Pai – Tai Po
 * Hok Tsai Pai – Sai Kung
 * Hong Kong Island
 * Hung Pai – North
 * Kai Chau – Sai Kung
 * Kat O (, Crooked Island) – North
 * Kau Pei Chau – Southern
 * Kau Sai Chau – Sai Kung
 * Kau Yi Chau – Islands
 * Kiu Tau – Sai Kung
 * Kiu Tsui Chau (, Sharp Island) – Sai Kung
 * Ko Pai – North
 * Kok Tai Pai – North
 * Kong Tau Pai – Sai Kung
 * Kowloon Rock – Kowloon City
 * Kung Chau – Tai Po
 * Kwun Cham Wan – Sai Kung
 * Kwun Tsai – Sai Kung
 * Lak Lei Tsai – Sai Kung
 * Lamma Island – Islands
 * Lan Shuen Pei – North
 * Lan Tau Pai – Sai Kung
 * Lantau Island – Islands
 * Lap Sap Chau – Sai Kung
 * Little Green Island – Central & Western
 * Lo Chau – Southern
 * Lo Chi Pai – North
 * Lo Chi Pai – Sai Kung
 * Lo Fu Tiu Pai – Sai Kung
 * Lo Shue Pai – Eastern
 * Loaf Rock – Islands
 * Luk Chau, formerly George I. – Islands
 * Lung Kwu Chau – Tuen Mun
 * Lung Shan Pai – Southern
 * Lung Shuen Pai – Sai Kung
 * Lut Chau – Yuen Long
 * Ma Shi Chau – Tai Po
 * Ma Tsai Pai – Sai Kung
 * Ma Wan – Tsuen Wan
 * Ma Yan Pai – Tai Po
 * Magazine Island (, Fo Yeuk Chau) – Southern
 * Mei Pai – Islands
 * Middle Island – Southern
 * Mong Chau Tsai – Sai Kung
 * Moon Island (, Mo Chau) – Tai Po
 * Muk Yue Chau – Sai Kung
 * Nam Fung Chau – Sai Kung
 * Ng Fan Chau – Southern
 * Nga Ying Chau – Sai Kung Southeast to Ching Chau
 * Nga Ying Pai – Sai Kung
 * Ngam Hau Shek – Tsuen Wan
 * Ngan Chau – Islands
 * Ngau Shi Pui – Sai Kung
 * Ngau Tau Pai – Sai Kung
 * Ngo Mei Chau (, Crescent Island) – North
 * Ninepin Group – Sai Kung
 * Lung Shuen Pai
 * North Ninepin Island
 * Sai Chau Mei
 * Shue Long Chau
 * Tai Chau
 * Tai Chau Mei
 * Tuen Chau Chai
 * Pak Chau – Tuen Mun
 * Pak Ka Chau – North
 * Pak Ma Tsui Pai – Sai Kung
 * Pak Pai – Sai Kung
 * Pak Sha Chau (, Round Island) – North
 * Pak Sha Chau (, White Sand Island) – Sai Kung
 * Pat Ka Chau – North
 * Peaked Hill – Islands
 * Peng Chau – Islands
 * Pearl Island – Tuen Mun
 * Pin Chau – Sai Kung
 * Ping Chau – Tai Po
 * Ping Min Chau – Sai Kung
 * Po Pin Chau – Sai Kung
 * Po Toi Islands – Islands
 * Castle Rock
 * Beaufort Island (, Lo Chau)
 * Mat Chau, an islet off Po Toi Island
 * Mat Chau Pai, an islet off Mat Chau
 * Po Toi Island
 * Sai Pai
 * San Pai
 * Sung Kong
 * Tai Pai
 * Waglan Island
 * Po Yue Pai – Sai Kung
 * Pun Shan Shek – Tsuen Wan
 * Pyramid Rock – Sai Kung
 * Round Island – Southern
 * Sai Ap Chau – North
 * Sam Pai – Sai Kung
 * Sam Pui Chau – Tai Po
 * Sha Chau – Tuen Mun
 * Sha Pai – North
 * Sha Pai – Tai Po
 * Sha Tong Hau (, Bluff Island) – Sai Kung
 * Sham Shui Pai – Islands
 * Shau Kei Pai – North
 * Shek Chau – Sai Kung
 * Shek Kwu Chau – Islands
 * Shek Ngau Chau – Tai Po
 * Shelter Island – Sai Kung
 * Sheung Pai – North
 * Shui Cham Tsui Pai – North
 * Shui Pai – Islands
 * Siu Kau Yi Chau – Islands
 * Siu Nim Chau – North
 * Siu Tsan Chau – Sai Kung
 * Soko Islands – Islands
 * Cheung Muk Tau
 * Ko Pai
 * Lung Shuen Pai
 * Ma Chau
 * Shek Chau
 * Siu A Chau
 * Tai A Chau
 * Tau Lo Chau
 * Wan Hau Chau
 * Yuen Chau
 * Yuen Kong Chau
 * Steep Island (, Ching Chau) – Sai Kung
 * Sunshine Island – Islands
 * Ta Ho Pai – North
 * Tai Chau – Sai Kung
 * Tai Lei – Islands
 * Tai Nim Chau – North
 * Tai O – Islands
 * Tai Pai – Sai Kung
 * Tai Tau Chau (Sai Kung District) – Sai Kung
 * Tai Tau Chau (Southern District) – Southern
 * Tai Tsan Chau – Sai Kung
 * Tang Chau – Tai Po
 * Tang Lung Chau – Tsuen Wan
 * Tap Mun Chau (, Grass Island) – Tai Po
 * Tau Chau – Southern
 * The Brothers – Tuen Mun
 * Siu Mo To
 * Tai Mo To
 * Tsz Kan Chau
 * Tit Cham Chau – Sai Kung
 * Tit Shue Pai – Tai Po
 * Tiu Chung Chau (, Jin Island) – Sai Kung
 * Tiu Chung Pai – Sai Kung
 * Tong Hau Pai – Sai Kung
 * Town Island – Sai Kung
 * Trio Island – Sai Kung
 * Tsim Chau Group – Sai Kung
 * Tai Chau
 * Tsim Chau
 * Tsing Chau (, Table Island) – North
 * Tsing Yi Island – Kwai Tsing
 * Tsui Pai – Islands
 * Tuen Tau Chau – Sai Kung
 * Tung Lung Chau – Sai Kung
 * Tung Sam Chau – Sai Kung
 * Wai Chau Pai – Tai Po
 * Wai Kap Pai – Sai Kung
 * Wang Chau – Sai Kung
 * Wang Pai – Sai Kung
 * Wo Sheung Chau – Sai Kung
 * Wong Mau Chau – Sai Kung
 * Wong Nai Chau Tsai – Sai Kung
 * Wong Nai Chau – North
 * Wong Nai Chau – North
 * Wong Nai Chau – Sai Kung
 * Wong Wan Chau (, Double Island) – North
 * Wong Wan Pai – Sai Kung
 * Wong Yi Chau – Sai Kung
 * Wu Chau – North
 * Wu Chau – Tai Po
 * Wu Pai – North
 * Wu Yeung Chau Pai – North
 * Wu Ying Pai – Islands
 * Yan Chau – North
 * Yau Lung Kok – Sai Kung
 * Yeung Chau – North
 * Yeung Chau – Tai Po
 * Yeung Chau, Sheep Island – Sai Kung
 * Yi Long Pai – Islands
 * Yi Pai – Sai Kung
 * Yim Tin Tsai – Tai Po
 * Yim Tin Tsai (, Little Salt Field) – Sai Kung
 * Yuen Kong Chau – Sai Kung

Former islands

 * Channel Rock – Kowloon City – now a part of the Kai Tak former airport runway
 * Chau Tsai – absorbed by reclaimed land of Tsing Yi Island, near CRC Oil Depot of Nam Wan Kok
 * Fat Tong Chau (, Junk Island) – now a part of Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung as a result of land reclamation
 * Hoi Sham Island – Kowloon City (also To Kwa Wan Island) – now part of To Kwa Wan as a result of reclamation
 * Kellett Island – now part of Causeway Bay as a result of gradual land reclamation, Eastern
 * La Ka Chau
 * Lam Chau – Islands – now assimilated with Chek Lap Kok into the airport platform and connected to Lantau by two bridges
 * Lo Shue Pai
 * Leung Shuen Wan (, High Island), Sai Kung – connected to the mainland to form the High Island Reservoir
 * Mong Chau – an island off the hill of Lai King, buried under the Terminal 2 of the Container Terminal
 * Mouse Island – an island in Sam Shing, Tuen Mun and now a part of Mouse Island Children's Playground
 * Nga Ying Chau – now northeast corner of the Tsing Yi Island as a result of land reclamation
 * Rumsey Rock – now a part of shore of between Tsim Sha Tsui East and Hung Hom
 * Stonecutters Island – a former island, now part of the Kowloon Peninsula, following land reclamation
 * Tsing Chau, or Pillar Island – absorbed into reclaimed land of Gin Drinkers Bay or Lap Sap Wan. It is the Kwai Chung end of Tsing Yi Bridge
 * Tung Tau Chau – connected to the mainland to form the Plover Cove Reservoir
 * Yuen Chau Tsai
 * Un Chau
 * Careening Island
 * New Wing of Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

Largest islands
The following is a list of the largest islands of Hong Kong, sorted by area (km2):


 * 1) Lantau Island 147.16
 * 2) Hong Kong Island 78.52
 * 3) Lamma Island 13.74
 * 4) Chek Lap Kok – the site of the airport platform, 12.70 km2
 * 5) Tsing Yi Island 10.69
 * 6) Kau Sai Chau 6.70
 * 7) Po Toi 3.69
 * 8) Cheung Chau 2.44
 * 9) Tung Lung Chau 2.42
 * 10) Crooked Island (Kat O) 2.35
 * 11) Wong Wan Chau (Double Island) 2.13
 * 12) Hei Ling Chau 1.93
 * 13) Tap Mun Chau (Grass Island) 1.69
 * 14) An artificial island for the Boundary Crossing Facilities and the southern entrance of the Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link Tunnel 1.50
 * 15) Ap Lei Chau 1.30
 * 16) Tai A Chau 1.20
 * 17) Tung Ping Chau 1.16
 * 18) Peng Chau 0.97
 * 19) Ma Wan 0.97

Leung Shuen Wan was connected to the mainland in the 1970s to form the High Island Reservoir. It historically had an area of 8.511 km2 and was in 1960 the 4th largest island of Hong Kong. At that time, the airport platform had not yet been built and the area of Tsing Yi increased later as a consequence of land reclamation.

The original Chek Lap Kok had an area of 3.02 km2 (other sources mention 2.8 km2). By the time when the airport was open the size of the island was cited to be 1,248 hectares.

Islands by population

 * 1) Hong Kong Island
 * 2) Tsing Yi
 * 3) Lantau
 * 4) Ap Lei Chau
 * 5) Cheung Chau
 * 6) Ma Wan
 * 7) Lamma
 * 8) Peng Chau
 * 9) Pearl Island
 * 10) Grass Island
 * 11) Crooked Island