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Tsim Bei Tsui () is an area of
Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (formerly romanised as Un Long) is one of the districts of Hong Kong. Located in the northwest of the New Territories, it had a population of 662,000 in 2021 Geography Yuen Long District contains the largest alluvial pla ...
in the northwestern part of the
New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
in
Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
, facing Deep Bay.


Geography

The area is the estuary of the , Shan Pui and
Kam Tin Kam Tin, or Kam Tin Heung, is an area in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It lies on a flat alluvial plain north of Tai Mo Shan mountain and east of Yuen Long town. It was formerly known as Sham Tin (岑田). Administratively, it is part o ...
rivers. Kwai Shan () is a 71 m high hill located in Tsim Bei Tsui and named after its shape.


Conservation

Two parts of Tsim Bei Tsui were designated as
Sites of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...
in 1985 and 1989 respectively. The first one features
mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves are taxonomically diverse, as a result of convergent evoluti ...
. It has an area of 2.5 ha and is located along the seafront. The second one, referred to as the 'Tsim Bei Tsui Egretry', has an area of 4.8 ha and features two feng shui groves. It is located south of Tsim Bei Tsui and east of
Mong Tseng Wai Mong Tseng Wai () is a walled village in Ha Tsuen, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Administration Mong Tseng Wai is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. For electoral purposes, Mong Tseng Wai is part ...
.


See also

* '' Gascoignella aprica''


References

Yuen Long District {{NewTerritories-geo-stub