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Sha Tin Heights

hill in Hong Kong

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ11140606 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sha Tin Heights (Chinese: 沙田嶺) is a 160 metres (525 ft) tall hill located in Tai Wai, Sha Tin District, in Hong Kong's New Territories.

Residential area

The Sha Tin Heights area is located close to Kam Shan Country Park. Currently, this area primarily consists of upmarket residences, concentrating on the two sides of Sha Tin Heights Road.

Transport

The hill is the site of Sha Tin Heights Tunnel and nearby Eagle's Nest Tunnel, a major infrastructure project in the area.

Editorial summary

“Sha Tin Heights” enters the record as hill in Hong Kong. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heights, hill and Hong can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 81-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Heights, hill and Hong.
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“Sha Tin Heights” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heights, hill and Hong provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11140606. Authority coordinates are 22.368, 114.167. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sha Tin Heights” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.