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{{Short description|Residential area on Hong Kong Island}} {{Use Hong Kong English|date=August 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2011}} {{Infobox Chinese | pic = Lamma Island and Pok Fu Lam 1.jpg | piccap = Overlooking Pok Fu Lam and [[Lamma Island]] from [[High West]] | picsize = 250px |c={{linktext|薄|扶|林}} |j=Bok6fu4lam4|y=Bohkfùhlàhm|ci={{IPA|yue|pɔ̀ːk̚.fȕː.lɐ̏m|}}|showflag=y |p=Bófúlín |l="Thin Shielding Forest"}} [[File:The Two Old Chowsheds of Dairy Farm, Hong Kong.JPG|thumb|right|Old cowsheds of the dairy farm]] '''Pok Fu Lam''' ({{lang-zh|t=薄扶林|links=no|labels=no}}) or '''Pokfulam''' is a residential area on [[Hong Kong Island]], at the western end of the [[Southern District, Hong Kong|Southern District]]. It is a valley between [[Victoria Peak]] and [[Mount Kellett]], around [[Telegraph Bay]]. Pok Fu Lam can claim several ''firsts'' in the history of [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]: <!--it was reputed to be the spot where [[Europe]]ans first discovered Hong Kong Island; *Source?* -->It was the place where Hong Kong's floral emblem, ''[[Bauhinia blakeana]]'', was first discovered; the site for Hong Kong's first [[Reservoirs of Hong Kong|reservoir]], [[Pok Fu Lam Reservoir]] (1883, now part of [[Pok Fu Lam Country Park|a country park]]), and the site for Hong Kong's first dairy farm by five investors, including [[Patrick Manson|Sir Patrick Manson]] in 1885. The farm supplied not only milk, but cattle to Hong Kong, and later became [[Dairy Farm International Holdings|Dairy Farm]]. However, it no longer exists in Pok Fu Lam. Pok Fu Lam is connected to [[Lung Fu Shan]], [[Sai Ying Pun]] and [[Aberdeen, Hong Kong|Aberdeen]] by the [[Pok Fu Lam Road]]. It's also indirectly connected to the [[Mid-Levels]]. Pok Fu Lam also overlooks [[Lamma Island]]. Pok Fu Lam is connected to [[Kennedy Town]] via [[Smithfield, Hong Kong|Smithfield]] and [[Shek Tong Tsui]] via Hill Road. {{TOC limit|2}}
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