New Territories

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) New Territory

Proper noun

the New Territories

1. One of the three main regions of Hong Kong.

Synonyms

• (initialism) NT

Translations

region of Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新界 (san¹ gaai³)

  Mandarin: 新界 (zh) (Xīnjiè)

• Finnish: Uudet territoriot
• French: Nouveaux Territoires (fr) m pl
• Portuguese: Novos Territórios m pl
• Vietnamese: Tân Giới

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “New Territories”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1315, column 2