* 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.

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.

Politics of Hong Kong takes place in a framework of a political system dominated by its constitutional document, the Basic Law of Hong Kong, its own legislature, the Chief Executive as the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

In accordance with Article 31 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong has Special Administrative Region status, which provides constitutional guarantees for implementing the policy of " one country, two systems ".

In other words, Hong Kong and Macau are outside of the legal jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, except on constitutional issues.

Although the judge found maintenance and champerty are constitutional, he questioned whether criminal liability for maintenance should be retained in Hong Kong as liability for both maintenance and champerty were abolished in places such as England and South Australia.

After the 1997 transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China pursuant to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, an international treaty registered with the United Nations, independence of the judiciary, along with continuation of English common law, has been enshrined in the territory's constitutional document, the Basic Law.

The Basic Law of Hong Kong, its constitutional document, guarantees a high degree of autonomy and continuation of laws previously in force after its reunification with Mainland China.

In contrast to other countries in which stare decisis gives the power of both final interpretation and adjudication to a supreme court, within the People's Republic of China constitutional and legal interpretation is considered to be a legislative activity rather than a judicial one, and the functions are split so that the NPCSC provides legal interpretations while the Supreme People's Court and the Courts of Final Appeal of Hong Kong and Macau actually decide cases.

The Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, namely Hong Kong and Macao, have basic laws as their constitutional documents.

He also advised the British Colonial Office on constitutional matters and advised the governments of Ghana and Hong Kong on legal issues.

The NPC's interpretation was appealed to the Court of Final Appeal, who ruled that the NPC's interpretation of the Basic Law was constitutional, thus denying almost all people listed as plaintiffs, including those already in Hong Kong since the first week of 1997, the right of abode.

The Court found that a scheme to verify the claim of right of abode was in itself constitutional, but that linking the certification system to the one-way permit system, which essentially concerned the right to exit mainland China and nothing to do with the right of abode in Hong Kong, was unconstitutional.

However, the Government pointed out ( in May 1999 ) the disadvantages of such option, that since the NPC would meet only once a year in March, a large number of ROA claimants would have flooded Hong Kong by then, and also the Basic Law, as a constitutional document, should not be amended lightly before other options are fully explored.

Beside pushing for tightened human rights protection, more efforts on equal opportunities, and the establishment of a statutory right to access to information, she demanded a redraft of the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitutional document, and democratisation in China.

The group considered universal suffrage by 2007 / 8 as vital to the protection of human rights and the rule of law in Hong Kong, and aimed to promote debates on universal suffrage from a legal and constitutional point of view.

On 3 November 2005, after returning from Vatican City, he said that the people of Hong Kong should be allowed to decide whether or not they wanted proposed constitutional reforms ; he also said that the Government should conduct a " territory-wide public opinion survey " to allow the people to decide whether or not they wanted the constitutional reform package it was proposing.

Although Hong Kong had become a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China since the transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom in 1997, Hong Kong has continued to send a separate delegation from that of the People's Republic of China, which represents Mainland China, to the Olympic Games and other international sport events, as prescribed in its constitutional document, the Basic Law.

Under the Basic Law, the constitutional document of Hong Kong, the special administrative region remains a common law jurisdiction.

The constitutional framework for the legal system is provided by the Hong Kong Basic Law.

The Hong Kong Basic Law contains the essentials of the constitutional framework in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Hong Kong permanent residents and mainland Chinese need a passport-like document ( the " Home Return Permit " for Hong Kong permanent residents and the Two-way Permit for Mainland Chinese ) to cross the Sino-Hong Kong border.

On this document, the birth certificate for one of Ma's daughters, Ma fills out " Shengchin " as his own birthplace, contradictory to his officially-reported birthplace of " Hong Kong " ( under British rule ).

The normally neutral Hong Kong Bar Association, an organisation representing barristers, has also stepped into the fray: Bar Association chairman Alan Leong has publicly said: " The more you read into this document, the more anxious and concerned you get.

All Hong Kong residents who plan to adopt children or travel / emigrate to another country can request for a Certificate of No Criminal Conviction-a document that is issued directly to the Consulate and / or government agencies and not to the requester.

A municipal court document obtained by Lu claims his information center was " registered in Hong Kong by foreign hostile element Frank Lu Siqing.

Later, after cheating the cheater and winning a large sum of Thackeray's money, Bond attends a press conference where Thackeray announces that he is selling his company, EurAsia Enterprises to the Chinese, secretly due to a long-forgotten legal document that grants the descendants of Li Wei Tam ownership of the company if the British were to ever lose control of Hong Kong.

In addition, the Hong Kong Central Library provides document imaging materials, such as drawings, manuscripts, microfilms, clippings, reports, posters, house programmes, newspapers, photos, maps, pictures, black-and-white document images etc.

A ‘ Home Return Permit ’ (, ), also referred to as a ‘ Home Visit Permit ’ or ‘ China Back Home Pass ’, is the colloquial name for the travel document officially known as the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents issued to PRC citizens who are permanent residents of Hong Kong and Macau as the entry permit to China.

Today, most holders of this permit are people who were born and brought up in Hong Kong and Macau ; the permit plays the role of a travel document for visiting China rather than a permit which allows the holder to ' return home '.

Holders of the Home Return Permit are able to freely enter Mainland China for tourism or business purposes ( except purposes of employment ) within the validity of their travel document, regardless of the point of origin whether it is from Hong Kong / Macau or from overseas.

Hong Kong and Macau permanent residents in foreign countries, who do not already have a Home Return Permit, can apply to their local Chinese foreign mission for a special travel pass to mainland China, although this document is not a Home Return Permit.