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For hill of the same name in Central El Paso, see Government Hill, El Paso.
Battery Path, Government Hill, Central

The Government Hill (Chinese: 政府山, Pinyin: Zhèngfǔ Shān) is a hill in Central, Hong Kong, China. It is bounded by the upper section of Upper Albert Road in the south, Queen's Road Central in the north, Garden Road in the east, and Glenealy in the west.

The hill has already been the administrative centre of Hong Kong when Hong Kong was under British rule and is still the administrative centre of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region today. The Government House and blocks of the Central Government Offices (Government Headquarters) occupies a large portion of the hill.

St. John's Cathedral of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, the Anglican Church in Hong Kong, are also on the Government Hill. At its adjacent is the Court of Final Appeal inside the Former French Mission Building with Battery Path leading to Queen's Road Central.

Beside the already crowded central business district, the hill is free from skyscrapers and preserved many century-old trees. Higher hill in the south is Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens.

As of 2006, the Hong Kong Government finally had the approval from Legislative Council of Hong Kong to move the Central Government Offices from the hill to former Tamar Site. The future use of Government Hill is not yet decided. It thus arouses much concern from Hong Kong society.

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