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Mong Kok.

Mong Kok is located in Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong, in the middle of the Kowloon Peninsula. There are many old and new buildings; the floors of old residential buildings are mostly shops or restaurants. Bounded by Nathan Road, shopping malls are concentrated to the east and residential areas are to the west. The transportation is very convenient, with buses, East Rail, subway, and even green minibuses running all night. The area east of Nathan Road is often flooded during holidays.

Mong Kok has an extremely high population density. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mong Kok is the most densely populated area in the world, with an average density of 130,000 people per square kilometer.

In May 2004, a large number of pottery and pottery tools from the Eastern Han, Jin and Tang dynasties were unearthed in a drainage site with a depth of only 2 meters at the junction of Tongcai Street and Soya Street in the busy city. , showing that Mong Kok was already inhabited more than a thousand years ago.

Mong Kok was called Mong Kok in ancient times because the area was covered with miscanthus and the terrain resembled a horn extending into the sea. The place was called Mong Kok Tsui, and the nearby village was named Mong Kok Village. Mang Kok Village is located near today's Saiyi Street. The villagers make a living by growing vegetables, flowers, and raising pigs and chickens. Since 1860, as the Kowloon Peninsula was ceded to the British, villagers in Mong Kok have shipped the flowers, vegetables and livestock they grew to Hong Kong Island for sale. At that time, they mostly crossed the sea in the boats of the Shu people. Since the Shu people called "Mang" "Wang", the British called Mong Kok according to the accent of the Shu people.

In 1909, the British Hong Kong *** began to reclaim the sea and build typhoon shelters near the Mong Kok seaside, and wharves and roads began to appear there. In the 1930s, Mong Kok was officially renamed Mong Kok, which means prosperity. However, the English translation of Mong Kok (Mong Kok) has not changed. To this day, people on the water still call Mong Kok "Wang Kok" in colloquial language. At that time, Mong Kok was an industrial area with many cigarette factories, cotton weaving factories and hardware factories.

To the west of Nathan Road in Mong Kok is land reclaimed from the sea. The current reclaimed land street was the seaside before the 1950s. Today, Mong Kok has become an extremely prosperous shopping and residential area.

There are many special streets in Mong Kok:

Ladies Street - the section of Tung Choi Street running from Dundas Street to Argyle Street. It got its name because it sells clothing, cosmetics, furnishings and other women's products.

Bird Street, also known as Connaught Street, is named after the street stalls filled with birds. Connaught Street was demolished due to urban renewal in 1998. The shop owners were arranged to move to the Bird Garden on Yuen Po Street adjacent to Mong Kok Railway Station, and the comprehensive development area "Langham Place" was built on the original site. "Langham Place" includes the 5-star "Langham Place Hotel", an office building and a large shopping mall with more than ten floors, equipped with a cinema, department stores and many restaurants.

Sneaker Street - a section of Fa Yuen Street, named after the many shops selling sports shoes.

Goldfish Street - a section of Tung Choi Street, named after the many shops selling farmed fish.

Flower Market Road - named after the many shops selling wholesale and retail flowers.

Sai Yeung Choi Street South - standing side by side with Ladies Market, is home to many shops selling trendy clothing, electronic products and snacks. It is one of the popular shopping hotspots among young people in Hong Kong.

Dundas Street - bordering Ladies Market and Sai Yeung Choi Street to the south, the street is full of shops selling snacks and is one of the most popular places among young people in Hong Kong.

There are also many shopping malls in Mong Kok:

Langham Place, New Century Plaza, Mong Kok Computer Centre, Sino Centre, Hao King Shopping Center, King Wah Centre, Xianda Plaza, Mong Kok Centre, Castle of Chic, Trendy Zone

Mong Kok sells many trendy items. People who hang out in Mong Kok are called "MK people", which is the abbreviation of Mong Kok.