Wood Road

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Wood Road near the Wan Chai Animal Clinic
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Salvation Army Street

Wood Road (Chinese :活道) is a street in the Wan Chai area of Hong Kong island, Hong Kong. It intersects with Queen's Road East, Burrows Street, Cross Lane, Wing Cheung Street, Heard Street and Wan Chai Road.

Chinese language family of languages

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

Wan Chai metropolitan area in Hong Kong

Wan Chai is a metropolitan area situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Its other boundaries are Canal Road to the east, Arsenal Street to the west and Bowen Road to the south. The area north of Gloucester Road is often referred to as Wan Chai North.

Hong Kong East Asian city

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.

Wood Road was named after John Roskruge Wood, a government official and later, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.

The Wan Chai Animal Clinic is located on Wood Road. The Salvation Army have offices nearby in Salvation Army Street.

From 1937 to 1950s the Government Trade School was located here. In 1957 it was renamed Hong Kong Technical College and relocated to Hung Hom, where it later became Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Hung Hom area of Kowloon, in Hong Kong

Hung Hom is an area of Kowloon, in Hong Kong, administratively part of the Kowloon City District, with a portion west of the railway in the Yau Tsim Mong District (油尖旺區). Hung Hom serves mainly residential purposes, but it is mixed with some industrial buildings in the north.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University University in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong. The history of PolyU can be traced back to 1937, and it assumed full university status in 1994. It is one of the funded institutions of the territory's University Grants Committee (UGC).


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