Princess Margaret Road (; lit. "Princess Road") is a road in Kowloon, Hong Kong, forming a part of Route 1. Originally called

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Road () with the English name after a town in

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and the Chinese name after the

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trees that grew there, the road was renamed to commemorate the 1966 visit to Hong Kong of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. Princess Margaret Road starts near at

Gascoigne Road Gascoigne Road () is a main road in Kowloon, Hong Kong, going west-east from Nathan Road to Chatham Road South through the head of King's Park, leading vehicles from West Kowloon to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. Gascoigne Road Flyover () is a ...

, runs northward, cutting through the hills between Quarry Hill,

No. 12 Hill No. 12 Hill (), or Hung Hom Hill (), is a hill in Kowloon, Hong Kong, between King's Park and Lo Lung Hang, northwest of Hung Hom and southeast of Ho Man Tin. The Oi Man Estate was built on No. 12 Hill in stages between 1974 and 1975. The place ...

and Ho Man Tin proper, and reaches the intersection of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road. Depicted in the movie ''

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'', it actually is a popular road for illegal street racing.

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Google Maps of Princess Margaret Road
{{Coord, 22.31336, 114.17691, display=title Roads in Kowloon Ho Man Tin Route 1 (Hong Kong)

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