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West Kowloon is a part of Kowloon, Hong Kong situated within the Yau Tsim Mong District. It is bounded by Canton Road to the east, Victoria Harbour to the west and the south, and Jordan Road to the north. Further to the north, the area extends to Tai Kok Tsui to the west of the West Kowloon Expressway. Olympic and Kowloon stations are within the area.

It is principally a stretch of land reclaimed and which has been opened to development in the late 20th century. It has been zoned for mixed commercial, residential and leisure development.

Projects within this area, and which may include "West" and "Kowloon" in the name, are as follows:

• West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade
• West Kowloon (KCR)
• West Kowloon Corridor - a bypass connecting Lai Chi Kok Road with the Gascoigne Road Flyover in Yau Ma Tei
• West Kowloon Cultural District - proposal for a leisure and cultural district
• Western Harbour Crossing - Hong Kong's third harbour crossing the Kowloon side of whose exit is located within West Kowloon

West Kowloon may also refer to:

• Kowloon West Cluster of Hospitals under the regimen of the Hospital Authority but not strictly within the area
• Kowloon West constituency, a directly elected geographical constituency represented in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Projects within the area include:

The International Commerce Center (ICC) under construction on 25 February, 2007 on the left. To the right are the buildings The Harbourside (blue) and The Arch

Commercial projects include International Commerce Centre, a 484 m (1,588 ft.) skyscraper (under construction) which is part of the Union Square project.

Residential projects which have been realised in the sector include Sorrento (2003), the tallest residential building in Hong Kong, The Harbourside (2003), and The Arch (2005). The above all sit atop Kowloon MTR station, a station on the Tung Chung line and Airport Express line. Recently, the shopping-mall "elements" started operating on October 1st, 2007.

• In August 2005, two neighboring sites near Central Park and Park Avenue were triggered for auction, and were subsequently acquired by a joint venture of Sino Land, Chinese Estates Holdings and Nan Fung Development^[1].
• In May 2007, a site bounded by Hoi Wang Road, Yan Cheung Road and Yau Cheung Road was won by a consortium comprising Sino Land, Chinese Estates Holdings, K Wah International and Nan Fung Development, for a bid of HK$4 billion^[2].

Following the successful auction of the Hoi Wang Road site in May 2007, some legislators called for a law to stop developers from constructing tall buildings which maximise good views at the expense of air flow in densely populated areas, but the bid failed^[3].