City of Victoria

English Victoria City Etymology en Queen Victoria =. Proper noun City of Victoria en city sar/Hong Kong. en April 18, 1999 w:Mark Landler WHAT'S DOING IN; Hong Kong w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20090904010211/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/18/travel/what-s-doing-in-hong-kong.html 04 September 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/18/travel/what-s-doing-in-hong-kong.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel https://archive.is/zUskv Hong Kong is an indifferent guardian of its past, with old buildings too frequently torn down in favor of nondescript high-rises. But a new exhibit of historical photographs, "City of Victoria," offers a fascinating record of Hong Kong's history. en 9 July 2015 Jennifer Eagleton A work in progress: An imaginary and re-imagined Hong Kong w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/9zKAG https://hongkongfp.com/2015/07/09/a-work-in-progress-an-imaginary-and-re-imagined-hong-kong/ 05 July 2025 Opinion In addition to non-stop demolition and construction, Hong Kong is constantly re-constructing and re-figuring its past. Another fictional work, Dung Kai-chung’s The Atlas: Archaeology of an Imaginary City (2011) echoes Calvino. In this novel, the “City of Victoria” (Hong Kong) no longer exists and narrators can only divine from old maps and atlases what it was like and how it changed during 156 years as a British colony because of rapid erection and demolition of the city’s physical structures. The Hong Kong its people know, according to the writer cannot be actually pinpointed on a map, the map being only a limited and artificial translation of the place. en 17 December 2021 Joyce Ng; Sammy Heung Where is the City of Victoria? Authenticity confirmed for 3 more boundary stones marking Hong Kong’s first colonial settlement w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20211217222820/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3160189/where-city-victoria-authenticity-confirmed-3-more-boundary https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3160189/where-city-victoria-authenticity-confirmed-3-more-boundary December 17, 2021 1563-9371 648902513 Society https://archive.ph/6ipJK Seven such stones were found earlier, marking out the City of Victoria, Hong Kong’s first urban settlement after it became a British colony. The boundary of the settlement was gazetted in 1903. Translations city in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 維多利亞城, yue 維城