Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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About Hong Kong
Hong Kong consists of the New Territories in the north which is connected to China across the Shenzhen River, and 236 islands of which Hong Kong and Lantau Island are the biggest. Over 60% of the land consists of country parks and nature reserves, with a landscape that is fairly hilly to mountainous with steep slopes. Between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula is Victoria Harbour, one of the deepest maritime ports in the world.
Few historical buildings remain in Hong Kong. Instead the city has become a centre of modern architecture with the skyline of the Central business district along the coast dominating the cities view. Perhaps Hong Kong's best-known building is the Bank of China Tower with its sharp angles supposedly casting negative feng shui energy into the heart of Hong Kong. Hong Kong's new International Airport on Chek Lap Kok, a huge land reclamation project linked to the centre of Hong Kong by the Lantau Link, makes it the perfect gateway for travellers heading for to Southeast Asia and China.
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General information
- Language: Chinese (Cantonese), English
- Climate: Tropical monsoon
- Timezone: UTC+8
- Currency: Hong Kong dollar (HKD)
- Electricity plugs: d g m (show)
- No. of inhabitants: 6,898,686 (July 2005 est.)
- Interl. accesscode +852
- Toplevel domain .hk
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Hong Kong is a modern city where East meets West as they say, with the latest European fashion, and active nightlife but also traditional Chinese stores with for instance Chinese herbal medicine.
Religion: mixture of local religions with strong Confusion influence 90%, Christian 10%
National holiday: National Day (Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China), 1 October (1949)
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