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{{Short description|Hill in the New Territories of Hong Kong}}
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'''Hung Fa Chai''' ({{zh|t=紅花寨}}) is a hill in [[Robin's Nest Country Park]], [[New Territories]], Hong Kong. With a height of {{convert|489|m}}, it lies {{convert|500|m}} to the northeast of [[Robin's Nest (Hong Kong)|Robin's Nest]], and is no longer inside the [[Frontier Closed Area]] south of the border with [[Shenzhen]] in mainland China. Hikers can reach there without any permit. On old Colonial maps of Hong Kong, it was marked as [[Ben Nevis]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nobYBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT35 |title=The Ultimate Mountain Trivia Quiz Challenge|last=Storer|first=Ralph|date=2013-12-16|publisher=Luath Press Limited|isbn=9781909912717|language=en}}</ref><ref name="pang">{{cite news |last1=Pang |first1=Diana |title=Around the world in a day with Hong Kong's street names |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/27/foreign-influence-part-3-around-the-world-in-a-day-with-hong-kongs-street-names/ |access-date=5 November 2024 |work=hongkongfp.com |date=27 August 2003}}</ref> after the highest mountain in [[Scotland]]. It is the most northerly of all Hong Kong's hills over {{convert|300|m}} featured in the [[list of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong]].

Hung Fa Chai ({{lang|zh-Hant-HK|紅花寨}}) has the same 'red flower' root ({{lang|zh-Hant-HK|紅花}}) as Robin's Nest while Chai ({{lang|zh-Hant-HK|寨}}) can mean either 'stockaded village', 'camp' or 'mountain stronghold'.

== See also ==

* [[Robin's Nest (Hong Kong)|Robin's Nest]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Mountains, peaks and hills of Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Sha Tau Kok]]
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