Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a city with multiple personalities. The population is mainly Chinese, but British influence is still quite visible. It has absorbed people and cultural influences from places as diverse as and and proudly proclaims itself to be Asia's World City.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Kowloon and Hong Kong International Airport.

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is an urban peninsula on the mainland part…

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, also known as Chek…

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Hong Kong's are a generic label for…

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Eastern District and Central Hong Kong.

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The in Hong Kong Island is not…

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Central and Western is a district of Hong Kong Island.

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The of Hong Kong were leased by China to the British in 1898.

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is the largest island in Hong Kong.

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The is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong.
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Victoria Peak and Hong Kong Space Museum.

Peak
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is a hill on the western half of .

Museum
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The is a public astronomy and…

Park
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is a public park next to Cotton Tree Drive in , Hong Kong.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sham Shui Po and Wan Chai.

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is an area of , Hong Kong…

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is located in the western part…

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is an area on southwest in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong

  • Type: City with 7,530,000 residents
  • Description: city and special administrative region of China
  • Also known as: “China Hong Kong”, “CN-91”, “Gon Kong”, “H. K.”, “H.-K.”, “hk”, “HK”, “HK SAR”, “HK.”, “HKG”, “HKSAR”, “Honcg Concg”, “Hong Kong RAS”, “Hong Kong S.A.R”, “Hong Kong SAR”, “Hong Kong SAR, China”, “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region”, “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China”, “Hong Kong, China”, “Hong-kong”, “Hongcong”, “Hongkongo”, “Hongkongsk”, “Honguecongue”, “Hsiang-chiang”, “Hương Cảng”, “RAS de Hong Kong”, “RAS de Hong Kong, Chine”, “Região Administrativa Especial de Hong Kong”, “regió administrativa especial de Hong Kong”, “Regiunea Administrativă Specială Hong Kong”, “Reġjun Amministrattiv Speċjali ta’ Hong Kong tar-Repubblika tal-Poplu taċ-Ċina”, “Siang-kang”, “Sonderverwaltungszone Hongkong”, “Speciale Administratieve Regio Hongkong van de Volksrepubliek China”, “Swētlīċhæfen”, “Xianggang”, “Zvláštní administrativní oblast Čínské lidové republiky Hongkong”, “Особливий адміністративний район Гонконг”, “Специальный административный район Гонконг”, “Хёнкон”, “Һонг Коң”, “Һоңкоң”, “هونق كونق”, “هونك كونك”, “हांग कांग”, “हांगकांग, चीन”, “হংকং বিশেষ প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”, “હોંગ કોંગ”, “ஒங்கொங்”, “சீன மக்கள் குடியரசின் ஒங்கொங் சிறப்பு நிர்வாகப் பகுதி”, “ಹಾಂಕಾಂಗ್”, “เขตบริหารพิเศษฮ่องกง”, “เซียงก่าง”, “ཞང་ཀང་།”, “ᨖᨚ ᨀᨚ”, “향항”, “향항특별행정구”, “홍콩 특별행정구”, “ホンコン”, “中华人民共和国香港特别行政区”, “中国香港”, “中國香港”, “中華人民共和国香港特別行政区”, “中華人民共和國香港特別行政區”, “香城”, “香江”, “香港 Hong Kong”, “香港特別行政区”, “香港特別行政區”, “香港特别行政区”, “香港特区”, and “香港特區”
  • Languages: Chinese, Yue Chinese, and English
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: special administrative region of China, big city, metropolis, global city, dependent territory, city-state, customs territory of China, nationality for sports, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude
22.2818° or 22° 16′ 55″ north
Longitude
114.1583° or 114° 9′ 30″ east
Population
7,530,000
Area
1,092 km² (422 miles²)
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
Capital
Hong Kong
Currency
Dollar (HKD)
Phone code
852
Internet domain
.hk
Open location code
7PJP75J5+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 24330691
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1819730
Wiki­data ID
Q8646
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Hong Kong” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ҳонконг”
  • Achinese: “Hong Kong”
  • Afrikaans: “Hongkong”
  • Albanian: “Hong Kong”
  • Albanian: “Hong-Kong”
  • Amharic: “ሆንግ ኮንግ”
  • Amis: “Hong kong”
  • Amis: “Hong Kong”
  • Angika: “हाँगकाँग”
  • Arabic: “هونغ كونغ”
  • 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”
  • Betawi: “Hongkong”
  • Bhojpuri: “हांगकांग”
  • Bishnupriya: “হংকং”
  • Bislama: “Hong kong”
  • Bislama: “Hong Kong”
  • Bosnian: “Hong Kong”
  • Brahui: “Háng Káng”
  • Breton: “Hong Kong”
  • Buginese: “ᨖᨚᨃᨚ”
  • Bulgarian: “Хонконг”
  • Burmese: “ဟောင်ကောင်”
  • Catalan: “Hong Kong”
  • Cebuano: “Hong Kong”
  • Central Bikol: “Hong Kong”
  • Central Kanuri: “Hong Kong”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھۆنگ کۆنگ”
  • Chavacano: “Hong Kong”
  • Chechen: “Гонконг”
  • Cherokee: “ᎰᏂᎩ ᎪᏂᎩ”
  • Cheyenne: “Hong Kong”
  • Chinese: “Xiānggǎng”
  • Chinese: “香港”
  • Chuvash: “Гонконг”
  • Cornish: “Hong Kong”
  • Corsican: “Hong Kong”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hoñ Koñ”
  • Croatian: “Hong Kong”
  • Croatian: “Posebna upravna regija Hong Kong”
  • Czech: “Hongkong”
  • Dagbani: “Hong Kong”
  • Danish: “Hongkong”
  • Dhivehi: “ހޮންކޮންގު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hong Kong”
  • Dotyali: “हङकङ”
  • Dutch: “Hongkong”
  • Dzongkha: “ཧོང་ཀོང”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гонконг”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هونج كونج”
  • Erzya: “Гонконг ош”
  • Esperanto: “Honkongo”
  • Estonian: “Hongkong”
  • Ewe: “Hong Kong”
  • Ewe: “Hɔng Kɔng nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Hong Kong”
  • Fanti: “Hong Kong”
  • Faroese: “Hong Kong”
  • Faroese: “Hongkong”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hong Kong”
  • Finnish: “Hongkong”
  • French: “Hong Kong”
  • Friulian: “Hong Kong”
  • Ga: “Hong Kong”
  • Gagauz: “Hong Kong”
  • Galician: “Hong Kong”
  • Gan Chinese: “香港”
  • Georgian: “ჰონგ-კონგი”
  • Georgian: “ჰონკონგი”
  • German: “Hong Kong”
  • German: “Hongkong”
  • German: “Sonderverwaltungszone Hongkong der Volksrepublik China”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hong Kong”
  • Gothic: “𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌲”
  • Greek: “Χονγκ Κονγκ”
  • Guarani: “Hong Kong”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Hong Kong”
  • Gujarati: “હોંગકોંગ”
  • Haitian: “Hong Kong”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hiông-kóng”
  • Hausa: “Babban Yankin Mulkin Hong Kong na Ƙasar Sin”
  • Hausa: “Hong Kong .”
  • Hausa: “Hong Kong”
  • Hawaiian: “Hong Kong”
  • Hebrew: “הונג קונג”
  • Hindi: “हाँग काँग”
  • Hindi: “हांगकांग”
  • Hindi: “हॉन्ग कॉन्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Hongkong”
  • Iban: “Hong Kong”
  • Icelandic: “Hong Kong”
  • Ido: “Hong Kong”
  • Igbo: “Hong Kong SAR China”
  • Igbo: “Hong Kong”
  • 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: “香港”
  • Javanese: “Hong Kong”
  • Kabiyè: “Hɔŋkɔŋ”
  • Kabyle: “Hong Kong”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hongkong”
  • Kalmyk: “Хонконг балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಂಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಂಗ್ಕಾಂಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gonkong”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гонконг”
  • Kashmiri: “ہانگ کانگ ایس اے آر چیٖن”
  • Kashmiri: “ہونٛگ کونٛگ”
  • Kazakh: “Гонконг”
  • Kazakh: “Сянган”
  • Khmer: “ហុងកុង”
  • Kikuyu: “Hong Kong”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hongo Kongo”
  • Kirghiz: “Гонконг”
  • Kölsch: “Hongkong”
  • Korean: “홍콩”
  • Kurdish: “Hong Kong”
  • Ladin: “Hong Kong”
  • Ladino: “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: “香港”
  • Lithuanian: “Honkongas”
  • Livvi: “Hong Kong”
  • Lombard: “Hong Kong”
  • Low German: “Hongkong”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hong Kong”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hongkong”
  • Macedonian: “Хонгконг”
  • Madurese: “Hong Kong”
  • Magahi: “हाङ्गकाङ्ग”
  • Maithili: “हङकङ”
  • Malagasy: “Hong Kong”
  • Malay: “Hong Kong”
  • Malay: “هوڠ کوڠ”
  • Malayalam: “ഹോങ്കോങ്”
  • Maltese: “Hong Kong”
  • Maltese: “Ħong Kong”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯣꯡ ꯀꯣꯡ”
  • Manx: “Hong Kong”
  • Maori: “Hongipua”
  • Marathi: “हाँग काँग”
  • Marathi: “हाँगकाँग”
  • Mazanderani: “هانگ کانگ”
  • Mazanderani: “هونگ کونگ”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “هونگ كونگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hiŏng-gē̤ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hiong-káng”
  • Minangkabau: “Hong Kong”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰონგ-კონგი”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰონგკონგი”
  • Mirandese: “Ḥong Kong”
  • Mongolian: “Хонг Конг”
  • Mongolian: “Хонконг”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هونكونڭ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هونكونݣ”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Hongkong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hongkong”
  • Norwegian: “Hongkong”
  • Novial: “Hong Kong”
  • Nyanja: “Hong Kong”
  • Obolo: “Ọn̄ Kọn̄”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hong Kong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hongkong”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Honcgconcg”
  • 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: “Hong Kong”
  • Pushto: “هانګ کانګ”
  • Quechua: “Hong Kong”
  • Romanian: “Hong Kong”
  • Romansh: “Hong Kong”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хонконг”
  • Russian: “Гонконг”
  • Rusyn: “Гонґ Конґ”
  • Rusyn: “Гонконґ”
  • 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 Kong”
  • Serbian: “Хонгконг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hong Kong”
  • Shan: “ႁွင်းၵွင်း”
  • Sicilian: “Hong Kong”
  • Silesian: “Hůngkůng”
  • Sindhi: “هانگ ڪانگ”
  • Sinhala: “හොංකොං”
  • Slovak: “Hongkong”
  • 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: “Hongkong”
  • Swiss German: “Hongkong”
  • Sylheti: “ꠢꠋ ꠇꠋ”
  • Tagalog: “Hong Kong”
  • Tajik: “Гонконг”
  • Tajik: “Ҳонгконг”
  • Tajik: “Ҳонконг”
  • Talysh: “Hong Kong”
  • Talysh: “Honq-Konq”
  • Tamil: “ஆங்காங்”
  • Tamil: “ஹாங்காங்”
  • Taroko: “Hong Kong”
  • Tatar: “Гонконг”
  • Tatar: “Һоң Коң”
  • Telugu: “హాంకాంగ్”
  • Telugu: “హాంగ్‌కాంగ్”
  • Thai: “ฮ่องกง”
  • Tibetan: “ཞང་ཀང”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོང་ཀོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོང་ཀོང༌།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሆንግ ኮንግ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Hong Kong”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Hongi Kongi”
  • Tswana: “Hong Kong”
  • Tulu: “ಹಾಂಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್”
  • Turkish: “Hong Kong”
  • Turkmen: “Gonkong”
  • Turkmen: “Hoň Koň”
  • Twi: “Hong Kong”
  • Tyap: “Hong Kong”
  • Uighur: “شياڭگاڭ”
  • Ukrainian: “Гонконг”
  • Ukrainian: “Гонконґ”
  • Urdu: “ہانگ کانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Gonkong”
  • Venetian: “Hong Kong”
  • Veps: “Honkong”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồng Kông”
  • Vlaams: “Hong Kong”
  • Vlax Romani: “Hong Kong”
  • Volapük: “Honkeän”
  • Võro: “Hongkong”
  • Walloon: “Honconk”
  • Walloon: “Hong Kong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hong Kong”
  • Welsh: “Hong Cong”
  • Welsh: “Hong Kong”
  • Western Armenian: “Հոնկ Գոնկ”
  • 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: “香港”
  • Zeeuws: “Hongkong”
  • Zhuang: “Yanghgangj”
  • Zulu: “Hong Kong”
  • Zulu: “i-Hong Kong”
  • “Hong Kong”
  • “ma Onkon”
  • “हांगकांग”

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