* Hong Kong's skyscrapers in comparison

The map also shows Hong Kong's maritime boundaries.

Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and monsoonal with cool dry winters and hot wet summers.

Hong Kong's terrain is hilly and mountainous with steep slopes.

Due to Hong Kong's nearly 150-year colonial history that saw the stationing of English, Indians and Russians among other ethnic groups as civil servants or traders.

The Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitutional document, was approved in March 1990 by National People's Congress of the PRC.

Donald Tsang described the appointments as a milestone in the development of Hong Kong's political appointment system.

Hong Kong is a favorable destination especially for international firms and firms from Mainland China to be listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from Hong Kong's highly internationalized and modernized financial industry along with its capital market in Asia, its size, regulations and available financial tools are comparable to London and New York.

Hong Kong's gross domestic product, between 1961 and 1997, has grown 180 times while per capita GDP rose by 87 times.

Since the 1997 handover Hong Kong's economic future became far more exposed to the challenges of economic globalisation competition directly from mainland China.

Hong Kong's principal trading partners remain to be China, United States, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, and South Korea.

Communications in Hong Kong includes a wide-ranging and sophisticated network of radio, television, telephone, Internet, and related online services, reflecting Hong Kong's thriving commerce and international importance.

The production of Hong Kong's soap drama, comedy series and variety shows have reached mass audiences throughout the Chinese-speaking world.

Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, ATV and TVB, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).

The Peak Tram connects Central, Hong Kong's central business district, with the Victoria Peak.

They are jointly operated by Hong Kong's MTR Corporation and the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China.

Hong Kong's constitutional document, the Basic Law, for example, specifies the Chief Executive as the head of the special administrative region, in addition to his role as the head of government.

Upon completion, Hopewell Centre surpassed Jardine House as Hong Kong's tallest building.

The proposed site in Hong Kong's Central District for the tower was less than ideal ; a tangle of highways lined it on three sides.

* 1998 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.

The name of Yee Wo Street in Hong Kong's East Point and Causeway Bay Districts comes from Jardine's Chinese name " Ewo " whilst other locations associated with the company include Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon-day Gun.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

The film stars some of the best-known actors and actresses in Hong Kong, including Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai.

One of his best-known slogans is 科學求真 ， 智識救港 ( which means literally: To seek the truth with science, and to save Hong Kong with knowledge ).

The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western District on Hong Kong Island.

It was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, and it was the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark.

This was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1990 to 1992, the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark, and the first composite space frame high-rise building.

The building is located at 18 Harbour Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island.

The building surpassed the Bank of China Tower as the tallest building in Hong Kong until the completion of 2IFC.

However, because of high windload in Hong Kong for such a super high-rise building, every increase in building height by a metre would increase the structural cost by more than HK $ 1 million ( HK $ 304, 800 per ft ).

It is named after Hong Kong-listed property firm Hopewell Holdings Limited, which constructed the building.

1846 view of Jardine's original building from Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

A Hong Kong building boom in the mid 1970s saw Jardine's buy Gammon Construction, the largest construction and civil engineering group on the island.

All of the members of the Uruguay and Hong Kong Olympic teams, which also shared the building with the Israelis, were released unharmed during the crisis.

The building is marked by its high level of light transparency, as all 3500 workers have a view to Victoria Peak or Hong Kong bay and the Chinese mainland.

The school building is currently located at Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

The school building, commandeered by the Japanese authorities during the Occupation of Hong Kong in World War II, was used as a P. W. D. depot.

A high-rise residential apartment building in Hong Kong.

The language and locale have attracted foreign investment with money from Hong Kong building up infrastructure at possible tourist sites and a $ 209, 000 grant from the Ford Foundation to build a Nüshu museum scheduled to open in 2007.

It was Leung Sheung's undeniable abilities that played a significant role in promoting and building Yip Man's Wing Chun in Hong Kong.

Tower 2 is the second tallest building in Hong Kong, behind the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon.

This 415-metre-tall building, currently Hong Kong's second tallest, is quoted as having 88 storeys and 22 high-ceiling trading floors to qualify as being extremely auspicious in Chinese culture.

A building in Hong Kong with a hollow middle hole, utilizing fengshui benefits