Salisbury Road, Hong Kong

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Salisbury Road
Salisbury Road in ETST 201508.jpg
Salisbury Road in East Tsim Sha Tsui in August 2015
Native name梳士巴利道 (Chinese)
Namesake Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Maintained by Highways Department
Length2.0 km (1.2 mi) [1]
Location Yau Tsim Mong District
West end Star Ferry Pier, Tsim Sha Tsui
East end Hung Hom Bypass
Salisbury Road, Hong Kong
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
Salisbury Road
Chinese 梳士巴利道
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Shūshìbālì Dào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization sō sih bā leih douh
Jyutping so1 si6 ba1 lei6 dou6
IPA [sɔ́ːsìːpáːlèitòu]

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References

  1. 1 2 OpenStreetMap contributors. Salisbury Road (Map). OpenStreetMap . Retrieved 20 March 2016.{{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. Steven Ribet and Amy Tse, Making the connection Archived 4 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine , The Standard, 1 September 1999

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