Hong Kong special administrative region of the People's Republic of China . With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities 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 seventh-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...
The 2017 Hong Kong ePrix 2017 FIA Formula E HKT Hong Kong ePrix for sponsorship purposes) was a pair of Formula E electric car races held on 2 and 3 December 2017 at the Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit in Hong Kong before a two-day crowd of 27,000 people. They were the first and second races of the 2017–18 Formula E Championship and the second running of the event . The 43-lap race on 2 December was won by Virgin driver Sam Bird from second place. Jean-Éric Vergne finished second for the Techeetah team and Mahindra driver Nick Heidfeld was third. The longer 45-lap race held on 3 December was won by Heidfeld's teammate Felix Rosenqvist from pole position . Edoardo Mortara of the Venturi team was the highest-placed rookie in second and Jaguar 's Mitch Evans was third.
Vergne won the pole position for the first race by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained his startline advantage on the first lap. The race saw the first race stoppage in Formula E history on the first lap when rookie André Lotterer was caught out by traffic and hit the turn three and four chicane barrier, forcing three other cars to stop on track. After the running order was sorted, the race restarted half an hour later behind the safety car with Vergne leading Bird. On lap 20, Bird took the lead from Vergne, and held it for the rest of the race despite incurring a drive-through penalty for a collision with the side of his garage in the pit lane claim his sixth career victory. (Full article...
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The following are images from various Hong Kong-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 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 2 Flag of Hong Kong under current Chinese rule (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 4 Inclusion and togetherness. Words on the ground, Yuen Long, HK (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 7 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 8 Happy Valley apartment blocks (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 9 Golden Bauhinia Square on Christmas night; The square has a giant golden statue of the Hong Kong orchid. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 10 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 12 Queueing for water in Hong Kong, July 1963 (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 13 Healthcare workers conducting mass COVID-19 testing in
Jordan (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 15 "Vase with floral scroll design", on show in
Hong Kong Museum of Art (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 16 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 17 China Airlines Boeing 747 crash landed and ended up in the harbour. (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 19 A political advertisement written in Cantonese (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 20 A statue of
McDull , a Hong Kongers cartoon character; He is now known throughout East Asia. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 21 Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 22 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 24 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 26 Tsang Tai Uk in
Shatin ; It is also a distinctively Lingnan (Cantonese) building, being a
wok yi uk . (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 27 People honouring gods in a
dajiao celebration, the Cheung Chau Bun Festival (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 30 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 31 Japanese war criminals prepare for their transfer to
Stanley Prison (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 32 The graffiti work of
Tsang Tsou Choi , the "King of Kowloon" (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 34 Westernised stores such as
U2 are numerous. (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 35 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 )
Image 36 1888 German map of Hong Kong,
Macau , and
Canton (Guangzhou) (from
History of Hong Kong )
Image 37 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 38 Mahjong table setup (from
Culture of Hong Kong )
Image 39 Flag of Hong Kong under British rule (from
History of Hong Kong )
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... that Hong Kong native Grace Ho Bruce Lee , while on a one-year tour through the United States with the Mandarin Theatre?
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