{{Short description|Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong}} {{use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{use Hong Kong English|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox street | name = Princess Margaret Road | image = Princess Margaret Road Ho Man Tin Section.jpg | caption = Ho Man Tin section of Princess Margaret Road | native_name = {{native name|yue|公主道}} | length = {{convert|2.31|km}} | location = Kowloon, Hong Kong | direction_a = South | terminus_a = Chatham Road South | direction_b = North | terminus_b = Waterloo Road | mapframe-wikidata = yes | mapframe-zoom = 13 }} {{Chinese | c = 公主道 | j = gung1 zyu2 dou6 | y = gung1 jyu2 dou6 | p = Gōngzhǔ Dào | l = Princess Road | altname = Nairn Road | c2 = 楠道 | j2 = naam4 dou6 | p2 = Nán Dào | l2 = Nanmu Road }}
'''Princess Margaret Road''' ({{zh|t=公主道}}; {{lit}} "Princess Road") is a road in Kowloon, Hong Kong, forming a part of Route 1.
Originally called Nairn Road ({{zh|t=楠道|labels=no}}) with the English name after a town in Scotland and the Chinese name after the nanmu trees that grew there,<ref name="signs"/> the road was renamed to commemorate the 1966 visit to Hong Kong of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.<ref name="signs">{{cite book |title= Signs of a Colonial Era|last1= Yanne|first1=Andrew|last2= Heller|first2= Gillis|year= 2009|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|page= 22|isbn= 978-962-209-944-9}}</ref>
Princess Margaret Road starts near at Gascoigne Road, runs northward, cutting through the hills between Quarry Hill, No. 12 Hill and Ho Man Tin proper, and reaches the intersection of Argyle Street and Waterloo Road.<ref name="signs"/>
Depicted in the movie ''The Legend of Speed'', it actually is a popular road for illegal street racing.{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}}
==See also== * List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Princess Margaret Road}} *[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=22.303947,114.177963&daddr=%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB%E9%81%93+%4022.321380,+114.178090&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=18&mra=dme&sll=22.304076,114.17858&sspn=0.002035,0.003648&ie=UTF8&ll=22.312675,114.177895&spn=0.032556,0.058365&z=14&om=1 Google Maps of Princess Margaret Road]
{{HKkowloonroads}} {{HK routes|r1;}} {{Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon}} {{sequence |prev=Hong Chong Road |list=Hong Kong Route 1<br>x20px<br>Princess Margaret Road |next=Waterloo Road }} {{Coord|22.31336|114.17691|display=title}}
Category:Roads in Kowloon Category:Ho Man Tin Category:Route 1 (Hong Kong)