Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a place with multiple personalities; the population is mainly Cantonese Chinese but British influence is quite visible. It is a unique destination that has absorbed people and cultural influences from places as diverse as Vietnam and Vancouver and proudly proclaims itself to be Asia's World City.Photo: Base64, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Kowloon
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Kowloon is an urban peninsula on the mainland part of Hong Kong, to the north of Hong Kong Island, where the central business district is.
Hong Kong International Airport
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Hong Kong International Airport, also known as Chek Lap Kok Airport, is located just off Lantau Island in western Hong Kong.
Outlying Islands
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Hong Kong's Outlying Islands are a generic label for the other 234 islands, islets and rocks in the territory.
Destinations
Eastern District
The Eastern district in Hong Kong Island is not as full of attractions as neighbouring Central, although Wan Chai is known for its nightlife and Causeway Bay for an unforgettable shopping experience.Central Hong Kong
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Central and Western is a district of Hong Kong Island.
New Territories
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The New Territories of Hong Kong were leased by China to the British in 1898.
Lantau
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Lantau is the largest island in Hong Kong. Despite having the airport and Disneyland, it offers quiet mountains and villages that seem a world away from the busy pace of life in Kowloon.
Southern District
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The Southern District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong.
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Notable Places in the Area
Victoria Peak
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Victoria Peak is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island.
International Commerce Centre
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The International Commerce Centre is a 108-story, 484 m supertall skyscraper constructed by China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group Co.
Hong Kong Park
Photo: HK Arun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
22°16′39″N 114°9′42″E / 22.27750°N 114.16167°E Hong Kong Park is a public park next to Cotton Tree Drive in Central, Hong Kong.
Localities in the Area
Aberdeen
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Aberdeen is an area on southwest Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.
Pok Fu Lam
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Pok Fu Lam or Pokfulam is a residential area on Hong Kong Island, at the western end of the Southern District.
Causeway Bay
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Causeway Bay is an area and a bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, straddling the border of the Eastern and the Wan Chai districts.
Hong Kong
- Type: City with 7,350,000 residents
- Description: city and special administrative region of China
- Languages: Chinese, Yue Chinese and English
- Neighbors: Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai
- Categories: special administrative region, big city, million city, metropolis, global city, dependent territory, city-state, human settlement and locality
- Location: East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.2793° or 22° 16' 46" northLongitude
114.1628° or 114° 9' 46" eastPopulation
7,350,000Area
1,092 km² (422 miles²)Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)Capital
Hong KongCurrency
Dollar (HKD)Phone code
.hkInternet domain
852Open Location Code
7PJP75H7+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 7414774650OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1819730Wikidata ID
Q8646Hong Kong Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Гонконг
- Achinese: Hong Kong
- Afar: Gonkong
- Afrikaans: Hongkong
- Akan: Hong Kong
- Albanian: Hong-Kong
- Albanian: Hong Kong
- Amharic: Hong Kong
- Amharic: ሆንግ ኮንግ
- Amis: Hong kong
- Angika: हाँगकाँग
- Arabic: Hong Kong
- Arabic: هونج كونج
- Arabic: هونغ كونغ
- Arabic: هونق كونق
- Arabic: هونك كونك
- Aragonese: Hong Kong
- Armenian: Հոնկոնգ
- Assamese: হং কং
- Assamese: হংকং
- Asturian: Ḥong Kong
- Atayal: Hong kong
- Awadhi: हङकङ
- Azerbaijani: Honkonq
- Azerbaijani: Honq Konq
- Balinese: Hong Kong
- Bambara: Hong Kong
- Bashkir: Гонконг
- Basque: Hong Kong
- Bavarian: Hongkong
- Belarusian: Ганконг
- Bengali: হংকং
- Bengali: হংকং বিশেষ প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল
- Bhojpuri: हांगकांग, चीन
- Bhojpuri: हांगकांग
- Bhojpuri: हांग कांग
- Bishnupriya: হংকং
- Bislama: Hong kong
- Bosnian: Hong Kong
- Brahui: Háng Káng
- Breton: Hong Kong
- Buginese: Hong Kong
- Buginese: ᨖᨚᨊᨁ ᨀᨚᨊᨁ
- Bulgarian: Хонг Конг
- Bulgarian: Хонконг
- Burmese: ဟောင်ကောင်
- Catalan: Hong Kong
- Cebuano: Hong Kong
- Central Bikol: Hong Kong
- Central Kurdish: ھۆنگ کۆنگ
- Chavacano: Hong Kong
- Chechen: Гонконг
- Cherokee: ᎰᏂᎩ ᎪᏂᎩ
- Cheyenne: Hong Kong
- Chinese: Hiong-káng
- Chinese: 中华人民共和国香港特别行政区
- Chinese: 中国香港
- Chinese: 中國香港
- Chinese: 香港
- Chinese: 香港特別行政區
- Chinese: 香港特别行政区
- Chinese: 香港特区
- Chinese: 香港特區
- Chuvash: Гонконг
- Cornish: Hong Kong
- Corsican: Hong Kong
- Crimean Tatar: Hoñ Koñ
- Croatian: Hong Kong
- Croatian: Posebna upravna regija Hong Kong
- Czech: Hong Kong
- Czech: Hongkong
- Czech: Zvláštní administrativní oblast Čínské lidové republiky Hongkong
- Dagbani: Hong Kong
- Danish: Hong Kong
- Danish: Hongkong
- Dhivehi: ހޮންކޮންގު
- Dimli (individual language): Hong Kong
- Dotyali: हङकङ
- Dutch: HK
- Dutch: HKG
- Dutch: Hong Kong
- Dutch: Hongkong
- Dzongkha: ཧོང་ཀོང
- Eastern Mari: Гонконг
- Egyptian Arabic: هونج كونج
- English: China Hong Kong
- English: HK
- English: HKG
- English: HKSAR
- English: Hong Kong, China
- English: Hong Kong S.A.R
- English: Hong Kong SAR, China
- English: Hong Kong SAR
- English: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- English: Hongkong
- English: hk
- English: xiang gang
- Erzya: Гонконг ош
- Esperanto: HK
- Esperanto: HKSAR
- Esperanto: Hongkongo
- Esperanto: Honkongo
- Estonian: Hongkong
- Ewe: Hong Kong
- Ewe: Hɔng Kɔng nutome
- Extremaduran: Hong Kong
- Faroese: Hong Kong
- Faroese: Hongkong
- Fiji Hindi: Hong Kong
- Finnish: HK
- Finnish: HKSAR
- Finnish: Hong Kong
- Finnish: Hongkong
- French: H.-K.
- French: H. K.
- French: HK
- French: HK.
- French: Hong Kong
- French: Hong Kong, China
- French: RAS de Hong Kong
- French: RAS de Hong Kong, Chine
- French: Xiānggǎng
- French: hk
- Friulian: Hong Kong
- Gagauz: Hong Kong
- Galician: Hong Kong
- Gan Chinese: 香港
- Georgian: ჰონგ-კონგი
- Georgian: ჰონგკონგი
- Georgian: ჰონკონგი
- German: CN-91
- German: Hong Kong
- German: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- German: Hongkong
- German: Sonderverwaltungszone Hongkong
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Hong Kong
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌲
- Greek: Χονγκ Κονγκ
- Guarani: Hong Kong
- Guianese Creole French: Hong Kong
- Gujarati: હોંગકોંગ
- Gujarati: હોંગ કોંગ
- Haitian: Hong Kong
- Hakka Chinese: Hiông-kóng
- Hausa: Babban Yankin Mulkin Hong Kong na Ƙasar Sin
- Hausa: Hiông-kóng
- Hausa: Hong Kong
- Hawaiian: Hong Kong
- Hebrew: הונג קונג
- Hindi: हाँग काँग
- Hindi: हांगकांग
- Hungarian: Hongkong
- Icelandic: Hong Kong
- Ido: Hong Kong
- Igbo: Hong Kong
- Igbo: Hong Kong SAR China
- Iloko: Hong Kong
- Indonesian: Hong Kong
- Ingush: Гонконг
- Interlingua: Hong Kong
- Interlingue: Hong Kong
- Inuktitut: ᑳᖕ ᑭᖕ
- Irish: Hong Cong
- Italian: Hong Kong
- Jamaican Creole English: Ang Kang
- Japanese: 中国香港
- Japanese: 中華人民共和国香港特別行政区
- Japanese: 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區
- Japanese: 香港
- Japanese: 香港特別行政区
- Javanese: Hong Kong
- Kabiyè: Hɔŋkɔŋ
- Kalaallisut: Hongkong
- Kalmyk: Хонконг балһсн
- Kannada: ಹಾಂಕಾಂಗ್
- Kannada: ಹಾಂಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್
- Kannada: ಹಾಂಗ್ಕಾಂಗ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Gonkong
- Kashmiri: ہانک کانگ
- Kashmiri: ہانگ کانگ ایس اے آر چیٖن
- Kazakh: Гонконг
- Kazakh: Сянган
- Khmer: ហុងកុង
- Kikuyu: Hong Kong
- Kinyarwanda: Hongo Kongo
- Kirghiz: Гонконг
- Korean: 향항
- Korean: 향항특별행정구
- Korean: 홍콩
- Korean: 홍콩 특별행정구
- Kurdish: Hong Kong
- Ladin: Hong Kong
- Lao: Hong Kong
- Lao: ຮົງກົງ
- Latin: Hongcongum
- Latvian: Honkonga
- Lezghian: Гонконг
- Ligurian: Hong Kong
- Limburgan: Hong Kong
- Lingala: Hong Kong
- Lingua Franca Nova: Hongkong
- Literary Chinese: 香城
- Literary Chinese: 香江
- Literary Chinese: 香港
- Literary Chinese: 香港特別行政區
- Literary Chinese: 香港特區
- Lithuanian: Honkongas
- Livvi: Hong Kong
- Lombard: Hong Kong
- Low German: Hongkong
- Luxembourgish: Hong Kong
- Macedo-Romanian: Hongkong
- Macedonian: Хонгконг
- Madurese: Hong Kong
- Maithili: हङकङ
- Malagasy: Hong Kong
- Malay: Hong Kong
- Malay: هوڠ کوڠ
- Malayalam: ഹോങ്കോങ്
- Maltese: Hong Kong
- Maltese: Reġjun Amministrattiv Speċjali ta’ Hong Kong tar-Repubblika tal-Poplu taċ-Ċina
- Maltese: Ħong Kong
- Manipuri: ꯍꯣꯡ ꯀꯣꯡ
- Manx: Hong Kong
- Maori: Hongipua
- Marathi: हाँगकाँग
- Marathi: हाँग काँग
- Mazanderani: هونگ کونگ
- Min Dong Chinese: Hiŏng-gē̤ng
- Min Nan Chinese: Hiong-káng
- Minangkabau: Hong Kong
- Mingrelian: ჰონგ-კონგი
- Mingrelian: ჰონგკონგი
- Mongolian: Хонг Конг
- Mongolian: Хонконг
- Mongolian: ꯍꯣꯡ ꯀꯣꯡ
- Moroccan Arabic: هونكونڭ
- Navajo: Shádiʼááhjí Tsiiʼyishbizhí Bikin Haalʼá
- Neapolitan: Hong Kong
- Nepali: हङकङ
- Newari: हङकङ
- Nias: Hong Kong
- Northern Frisian: Hongkong
- Northern Luri: ولات هنگ کنگ
- Northern Sami: Hongkong
- Norwegian: Hongkong
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hong Kong
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hongkong
- Norwegian Bokmål: Hongkongsk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Hongkong
- Novial: Hong Kong
- Nyanja: Hong Kong
- Occitan (post 1500): Hong Kong
- Occitan (post 1500): Hongkong
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hong Kong
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hongcong
- Oriya: ହଂ କଂ
- Oriya: ହଂକଂ
- Ossetian: Гонконг
- Pampanga: Hong Kong
- Panjabi: ਹਾਂਗ ਕਾਂਗ
- Panjabi: ਹਾਂਗਕਾਂਗ
- Papiamento: Hong Kong
- Persian: هنگ کنگ
- Persian: هنگکنگ
- Picard: Hong Kong
- Piemontese: Hong Kong
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Hong Kong
- Polish: Hongkong
- Portuguese: HK
- Portuguese: Hong Kong
- Portuguese: Hongkong
- Portuguese: Honguecongue
- Portuguese: Região Administrativa Especial de Hong Kong
- Portuguese: hk
- Portuguese: 香港
- Pushto: هانګ کانګ
- Pushto: هنګ کنګ
- Quechua: Hong Kong
- Romanian: Hong Kong
- Romansh: Hong Kong
- Russia Buriat: Хонконг
- Russian: Гонконг
- Russian: Специальный административный район Гонконг
- Russian: Сянган
- Russian: Хёнкон
- Rusyn: Гонконґ
- Rusyn: Гонґ Конґ
- Sakizaya: Hong Kong
- Sakizaya: Hong kong
- Samogitian: Huonkuongs
- Sanskrit: हांग् कांग् नगरम्
- Sanskrit: हाङ्ग् काङ्ग्
- Santali: ᱦᱚᱝᱠᱚᱝ
- Sardinian: Hong Kong
- Scots: Hong Kong
- Scottish Gaelic: Hong Cong
- Scottish Gaelic: Hong Kong
- Serbian: Хонгконг
- Serbo-Croatian: Hong Kong
- Shan: ႁွင်းၵွင်း
- Sicilian: Hong Kong
- Silesian: Hůngkůng
- Sindhi: هانگ ڪانگ
- Sinhala: හොංකොං
- Slovak: Hongkong
- Slovenian: HK
- Slovenian: HKG
- Slovenian: Hong Kong
- Slovenian: Hongkong
- Somali: Hong Kong
- Somali: Hoon Koog
- South Azerbaijani: هونق کونق
- South Azerbaijani: هونگ کونگ
- Southern Altai: Гонконг
- Southern Sotho: Hong Kong
- Spanish: Hong Kong
- Sundanese: Hong Kong
- Swahili: Hong Kong
- Swedish: Hong Kong
- Swedish: Hongkong
- Swiss German: Hongkong
- Tagalog: HK
- Tagalog: HKSAR
- Tagalog: HK SAR
- Tagalog: Hong Kong
- Tajik: Гонконг
- Tajik: Ҳонгконг
- Tajik: Ҳонконг
- Talysh: Honq-Konq
- Tamil: ஃகொங்கொங்
- Tamil: ஆங்காங்
- Tamil: ஹாங்காங்
- Taroko: Hong Kong
- Tatar: Гонконг
- Tatar: Һонг Коң
- Tatar: Һоң Коң
- Tatar: Һоңкоң
- Telugu: హాంకాంగ్
- Telugu: హాంగ్కాంగ్
- Thai: ฮ่องกง
- Thai: เขตบริหารพิเศษฮ่องกง
- Tibetan: ཞང་ཀང་།
- Tibetan: ཧོང་ཀོང་།
- Tibetan: ཧོང་ཀོང༌།
- Tigrinya: ሆንግ ኮንግ
- Tok Pisin: Hong Kong
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Hongi Kongi
- Tosk Albanian: Hongkong
- Tswana: Hong Kong
- Turkish: Hong Kong
- Turkmen: Gonkong
- Twi: Hong Kong
- Tyap: Hong Kong
- Uighur: شياڭگاڭ
- Ukrainian: Гонконг
- Ukrainian: Гонконґ
- Urdu: ہانگ کانگ
- Uzbek: Gon Kong
- Uzbek: Gonkong
- Uzbek: Hong Kong
- Venetian: Hong Kong
- Veps: Honkong
- Vietnamese: HK
- Vietnamese: Hương Cảng
- Vietnamese: Hồng Kông
- Vlaams: Hong Kong
- Vlax Romani: Hong Kong
- Volapük: Honkeän
- Walloon: Hong Kong
- Waray (Philippines): Hong Kong
- Welsh: Hong Cong
- Welsh: Hong Kong
- Western Armenian: Հոնկ Քոնկ
- Western Frisian: Hongkong
- Western Panjabi: ہانگ کانگ
- Wolof: Ooŋ Koŋ
- Wu Chinese: 香港
- Xhosa: Hong Kong
- Yakut: Хоҥ Коҥ
- Yiddish: האנג קאנג
- Yoruba: Hong Kong
- Yoruba: Họ́ng Kọng
- Yue Chinese: 中國香港
- Yue Chinese: 香港
- Yue Chinese: 香港特別行政區
- Yue Chinese: 香港特區
- Zhuang: Yanghgangj
- Zulu: Hong Kong
- Zulu: i-Hong Kong
- Colony of Hong Kong
- Honconk
- Hsiang-chiang
- Xianggang
- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu
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