New Territories

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete) New Territory

Proper noun

the New Territories

One of the three main regions of Hong Kong.

Synonyms

(initialism) NT

Translations

region of Hong Kong

Chinese:
Cantonese: 新界 (san¹ gaai³)

Mandarin: 新界 (zh) (Xīnjiè)
Finnish: Uudet territoriot
French: Nouveaux Territoires (fr) m pl
Portuguese: Novos Territórios m pl
Vietnamese: Tân Giới

Further reading

Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “New Territories”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1315, column 2

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