Mid-Levels
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]
Proper noun
[edit]- An area in Central and Western district, Hong Kong
- 1993 October 18, Daniela Deane, “FOREIGN JOURNAL”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 September 2023[2]:
- The $29 million people mover, which snakes its way through some of the oldest sections of Hong Kong, connects the British territory's Central business district with the densely populated Mid-Levels residential area, which, while close to Central, is up a very steep hill from it.
Mid-Levels, Hong Kong's fastest growing area, sprang from a sleepy neighborhood of individual houses in the 1950s to a concrete jungle now, packed with 30-story apartment blocks and a population of some 60,000 people.
- 2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate[4]:
- This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.
- 2021 March 15, Candice Chau, “Covid-19: 2 cases found after almost 3,500 people tested in Mid-Levels ‘ambush’ lockdowns”, in Hong Kong Free Press[5], archived from the original on 03 March 2024, Hong Kong:
- Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district.
- 2024 February 17, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 4.: From wharves to wealth – how trade & commerce shaped Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press[6], archived from the original on February 17, 2024, Hong Kong:
- While Dent & Co. left little mark in that particular area, Glenealy (己連拿利) in Mid-Levels is named after the residence of Dent & Co.’s partner.
Translations
[edit]area in Hong Kong
|
Further reading
[edit]- Mid-Levels at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.