Meaning of North Point | Babel Free

Definitions

An area of Eastern district, Hong Kong.

Examples

“Colonel Shoji's 230 Regiment was soon in considerable confusion among several concrete pill-boxes half a mile to the west at North Point⟳.”

“The British positions at Mount⟳ Butler, Mount⟳ Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point⟳ were all under heavy assault.”

“Three masked explorers appeared atop an apartment tower in Hong Kong’s North Point⟳ district and sent a black drone flying, over a clothesline, until it was buzzing more than 10 stories above the cars, trams and pedestrians on the street below.”

“The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park⟳, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin⟳ marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point⟳. The police rejected their application for a permit⟳.”

“Even in pro-Beijing strongholds such as North Point⟳, fresh-faced candidates running on an explicitly pro-democracy platform unseated longtime incumbents.”

“Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point⟳ has long been known as one of the “reddest” – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong.”

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