Hong Kong
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Hong Kong 香港 | |
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| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Other official names
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_(+all_claims_hatched).svg) Location of Hong Kong within China | |
| Sovereign state | China |
| British possession | 26 January 1841 |
| Treaty of Nanking | 29 August 1842 |
| Convention of Peking | 24 October 1860 |
| New Territories lease | 9 June 1898 |
| Imperial Japanese occupation | 25 December 1941 to 30 August 1945 |
| Re-designated as a British Dependent Territory | 1 January 1981 |
| Sino-British Joint Declaration | 19 December 1984 |
| Handover to China | 1 July 1997 |
| Administrative centre | Tamar |
| Largest district by population | Sha Tin |
| Official languages | |
| Traditional Chinese[lower-alpha 2] English alphabet | |
| Ethnic groups (2021) | 91.6% Chinese 2.7% Filipino 1.9% Indonesian 0.8% White 0.6% Indian 0.4% Nepalese 2% other[6] |
| Demonym(s) |
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| Government | Devolved executive-led government within a unitary one-party state[7] |
| John Lee | |
| Eric Chan | |
| Andrew Leung | |
| Andrew Cheung | |
| Legislature | Legislative Council |
| National representation | |
| 36 deputies | |
| 203 delegates[8] | |
| Area | |
• Total | Template:Convinfobox/prisec2 (168th) |
• Water (%) | 59.70% (1,640.62 km2; 633.45 sq mi)[9] |
• Land | 1,114.35 km2 (430.25 sq mi)[9] |
| Highest elevation | 957 m (3,140 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population | |
• 2023 estimate | Template:IncreaseNeutral 7,498,100[10] |
• 2021 census | Template:IncreaseNeutral 7,413,070[11] |
• Density | Template:Convinfobox/prisec2 (4th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2025 estimate |
• Total | ▲ $589.81 billion[12] (50th) |
• Per capita | ▲ $77,942[12] (17th) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2025 estimate |
• Total | ▲ $424 billion[12] (39th) |
• Per capita | ▲ $56,031[12] (18th) |
| Gini (2021) | Template:DecreasePositive 39.7[lower-alpha 3][13] medium |
| HDI (2023) | ▼ 0.955[14] very high · 8th |
| Currency | Hong Kong dollar (HK$) (HKD) |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (HKT) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy yyyy年mm月dd日 |
| Mains electricity | 220 V–50 Hz |
| Driving side | Left[lower-alpha 4] |
| Calling code | +852 |
| ISO 3166 code | |
| Internet TLD | |
| Number plate prefixes | None for local vehicles, 粤Z for cross-boundary vehicles |
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區, Pinyin: Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu ,Hong Kong) People's Republic of China ke dui me se ek Special Administrative Regions (SARs) hae (Macau duusra hae).
Hong Kong ke tiin hissa me baata gais hae:
- Hong Kong Island
- Kowloon
- New Territories (including 235 outlying islands)
1997 talak, Hong Kong, United Kingdom ke niche rahaa.
- 1 2 No specific variety of Chinese is official in the territory. Residents predominantly speak Cantonese, the de facto regional standard.[1][2][3]
- 1 2 For all government use, documents written using Traditional Chinese characters are authoritative over ones inscribed with Simplified Chinese characters.[4] English shares equal status with Chinese in all official proceedings.[5]
- ↑ After adjustment for taxes and social transfers
- ↑ Except for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Link Road, which drives on the right.[15]
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- ↑ (Leung 2016).
- ↑ (Official Languages Ordinance).
- ↑ (Population By-Census 2021, pp. 31, 51–52)
- ↑ (Legislative Council Disclaimer and Copyright Notice)
- ↑ (Use of Chinese in Court Proceedings 2011)
- ↑ (Population By-Census 2021, p. 46).
- ↑ "China (People's Republic of) 1982 (rev. 2004)". Constitute project. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ↑ (Cheung 2017).
- 1 2 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ "Key statistics of the 2021 and 2011 Population Census" (PDF). census2021.gov.hk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 "IMF DataMapper: Hong Kong". International Monetary Fund. 2025. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
- ↑ (Household Income Distribution 2021, p. 5)
- ↑ "Human Development Report 2025" (PDF) (in English). United Nations Development Programme. 6 May 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
- ↑ (Technical Legislative Amendments on Traffic Arrangements for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge 2017)