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Hong Kong[ e ] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [ f ] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ...
Hong Kong is a coastal city, bordering Guangdong Province through the city of Shenzhen to the north and the South China Sea to the east, south, and west. Hong Kong and its 260 nearby islands and peninsulas are located at the mouth of the Pearl River Delta. The area of Hong Kong is distinct from Mainland China, but is considered a part of ...
Google has worked with Chinese location-based service provider AutoNavi since 2006 to source its maps in China. [44] Google uses GCJ-02 data for the street map, but does not shift the satellite imagery layer, which continues to use WGS-84 coordinates, [ 45 ] with the benefit that WGS-84 positions can still be overlaid correctly on the satellite ...
Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong Island (Chinese: 香港島; Jyutping: Hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng dóu) is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of 16,390 per square kilometre (42,400/sq mi), [2] as ...
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HZMB) is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. It is both the longest sea crossing [ 5 ][ 6 ] and the longest open-sea fixed link in the world. The HZMB spans the Lingding and Jiuzhou channels ...
Hong Kong was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 to 1981 and was a British dependent territory from 1981 until the transfer of its sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. The Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Hong Kong stipulate that Hong Kong operate with a high degree of autonomy until at least ...
As of 2024, 8 out of Hong Kong's 13 points of entry or border crossings controlled by the Immigration Department are located on or cross the land border fence. [10] Entry and exit immigration clearance into Hong Kong by sea can be cleared at 3 ferry terminals:, [10] and the other 2 out of 13 immigration clearance points in Hong Kong are located in the Hong Kong West Kowloon railway station and ...
Kowloon Walled City (Chinese: 九龍寨城) was an extremely densely populated and largely lawless enclave of China within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an Imperial Chinese military fort, the walled city became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898.