Tuen Mun District is one of the 18
administrative districts of Hong Kong. Its name was previously 'Tsing Shan' and it changed in the 1970s. It is the westernmost continental district of Hong Kong, located about 32 km from the
Kowloon Peninsula, 7 km southwest of
Yuen Long and 18 km west of
Tsuen Wan. It had a population of 488,831 in 2001. Part of the district is the
Tuen Mun New Town, which contains one of the largest residential areas in the
New Territories.