Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, an area just north of Hong Kong. What began as a Chinese military fort evolved into a squatters' village comprising a ...

This was the Kowloon Walled City. The Kowloon Walled City was built in 1847 as a small fort for Chinese imperial soldiers to keep watch over the coast. During the Japanese occupation, the fort’s ...