Hong Kong special administrative region of China . With 7.4 million residents in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world.
Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, the territory is now one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. Hong Kong is the world's third-ranked global financial centre (behind New York City and London ), ninth-largest exporter, and eighth-largest importer. Its currency, the Hong Kong dollar , is the ninth most traded currency in the world. Home to the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, Hong Kong has the largest number of ultra high-net-worth individuals . Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population. Despite being the city with the most skyscrapers in the world , housing in Hong Kong is consistently in high demand .
Hong Kong is a highly developed territory and has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.956, ranking fourth in the world and currently the only place in Asia to be in the top 5. The city has the highest life expectancy in the world , and a public transport usage exceeding 90 per cent. (Full article...
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 of former British Hong Kong . Built as an imperial Chinese military fort , the walled city became a de jure New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898. Its population increased dramatically after the end of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II , attracting mostly refugees fleeing the renewed Chinese Civil War .
By the late 1980s, the walled city contained roughly 35,000 residents within its territory of 2.6 hectares (6.4 acres; 26,000 m2 ), or approximately four football fields; resulting in a staggering population density of over 3 million people per square mile. As a result of the absence of any widely recognized bureaucracy, the city's residents and businesses had no municipal codes to govern them. Enabled by the enclave's anarchic nature, trade in banned products thrived, ranging from narcotics to dog meat . From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by local triad gangs and had high rates of prostitution, gambling, and drug abuse. (Full article...
Anson Maria Elizabeth Chan Fang On-sang GBM GCMG CBE JP Chinese : 陳方安生 ; née Fang; born 17 January 1940) is a retired Hong Kong politician and civil servant who was the first ethnic Chinese and woman to serve as Chief Secretary , the second-highest position in both the British colonial government and the Hong Kong SAR government under the Chinese sovereignty from 1993 until she retired from the government in 2001, sparking speculations of her growing rift with Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa .
Enjoying wide popularity during her tenure and often dubbed as "Iron Lady" and the "Conscience of Hong Kong", Chan became increasingly outspoken about pushing for a faster pace of the democratisation in Hong Kong and defending the autonomy of Hong Kong. Supported by the pan-democracy camp , she stood in the 2007 Hong Kong Island by-election and briefly served as member of the Legislative Council . After her retirement in 2008, she continued to lobby domestically and internationally for democracy and autonomy of Hong Kong, until her retirement from public life entirely in 2020. (Full article...
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The following are images from various Hong Kong-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 3 Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 6 Japanese war criminals prepare for their transfer to
Stanley Prison (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 7 People honouring gods in a
dajiao celebration, the Cheung Chau Bun Festival (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 8 Healthcare workers conducting mass COVID-19 testing in
Jordan (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 9 Lion Rock is also symbolic of Hong Kong. Hong Kongers has a term - "Beneath the Lion Rock" (
獅子山下 ) - which refers to their
collective memory of Hong Kong in the second half of the 20th century. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 10 China Airlines Boeing 747 crash landed and ended up in the harbour. (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 11 Flag of Hong Kong under British rule (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 13 1888 German map of Hong Kong,
Macau , and
Canton (Guangzhou) (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 14 Wing Lung Wai , a
walled village in Kam Tin; Hong Kong indigenous people built walled villages to protect themselves from rampant privates between 15th to 19th century. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 15 Map of
Bao'an (Po On) County in 1866. It shows that Hong Kong and Shenzhen used to be a part of Bao'an County in the
Qing dynasty (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 16 A statue of
McDull , a Hong Kongers cartoon character; He is now known throughout East Asia. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 17 Pang uk in
Tai O ; Pang uks were built by Tanka people, who had the traditions of living above water and regarding it as an honour. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 18 Mahjong table setup (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 19 "Vase with floral scroll design", on show in
Hong Kong Museum of Art (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 20 Inclusion and togetherness. Words on the ground, Yuen Long, HK (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 21 Queueing for water in Hong Kong, July 1963 (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 22 Hong Kong international airport was moved from Kai Tak to Chep Lap Kok. Photograph of Kai Tak taken the day after it closed. (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 23 Happy Valley apartment blocks (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 24 Flag of Hong Kong under current Chinese rule (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 25 The graffiti work of
Tsang Tsou Choi , the "King of Kowloon" (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 29 Main building of
University of Hong Kong ; Being a former British colony, Hong Kong naturally has a lot of British architecture, especially in government buildings. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 30 Westernised stores such as
U2 are numerous. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 31 A political advertisement written in Cantonese (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 34 Tong laus in
Mongkok ; While
tong laus can be seen throughout
Lingnan , they are especially common in Hong Kong. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 36 By 1990, the
Kowloon Walled City contained 50,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 37 Tsang Tai Uk in
Shatin ; It is also a distinctively Lingnan (Cantonese) building, being a
wok yi uk . (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 38 Golden Bauhinia Square on Christmas night; The square has a giant golden statue of the Hong Kong orchid. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 39 A
Mazu temple in
Shek Pai Wan ; It clearly shows traits of classical Lingnan style - pale colour, rectangular structures, use of
reliefs , among others. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
... that Mark Williams travelled for more than 13 hours to be a last-minute replacement at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters
... that Emi Wong carpet sweeper to do lunges and bottles of laundry detergent to do squats ?
... that the newly opened shopping mall The Wai ?
... that Patrick Tse 's performance in the film Time Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor at the age of 85, making him the award's oldest recipient?
... that North Korean child prodigy Ri Jong-yol International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong?
... that The Chinese in America gold rush era , mailed their laundry to Hong Kong for cleaning?
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