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Fast Facts About Hong Kong

While discussing Hong Kong, it is necessary to know the vital truth and statistics of the city. To start with lets begin with the basics of Hong Kong city which are worth noticing. Hong Kong city as most of you might be aware of was known as the 'Barren Rock' in the past is turning out to be the economy hub of the world.

1. Population of Hong Kong city is about 6.9 million which makes it one of the most densely populated areas of the world.

2. Overall density of Hong Kong city comes about- 6420 people per square kilometre which is quiet a lot.

3. It is a Special Administrative Region and it gained this status for People's Republic of China on July 1st 1997 which was approximately one and a half century after the Britains left China.

4. Average rainfall in Hong Kong comes about 2214.3 mm and the lowest temperature has gone down to 0.0°C.

5. The transport of Hong Kong is definitely something we might not want to miss. There are 1955 kilometers of roads carrying 544089 licensed vehicles on an average which would make it 276 vehicles for every kilometre.

6. Bridge infrastructure of Hong Kong has been the most remarkable of all. The Tsing Ma Bridge is the world's longest road-rail suspension bridge which has the main span of 1377 metres managing perfectly the road and the rail traffic of Hong Kong.

The Kap Shui Mun Bridge is the road-rail cable stayed bridge which has a main span of 430 meters but still contributing to the transport of Hong Kong city to a larger extent. It is the world's longest cable-stayed bridge managing the road and the rail traffic.

7. And talking about the nationality aspects of Hong Kong, it is dominated by the Chinese responsible for more than 95% of population.

8. Official languages spoken in Hong Kong are Chinese and English with English being the language used widely in the Government and the business sectors.

9. Climate of Hong Kong is amiable which is usually sub-tropical for more than half the year. Although there could be temperature drops to 10 degrees during the winters and rising up to 31 degrees during summers.

10. According to Doing Business Hong Kong is being ranked as world's 4th largest trading economy. It also has world's sixth largest foreign exchange market and is world's 15th largest banking centre.
In Asia alone, Hong Kong holds second biggest stock market.

11. About 4000 international corporations have established their regional centres in the city of Hong Kong which makes it a city with humungous international corporate base.

12. Hong Kong economy allows the features like free trading which would mean diminished or no trade barriers of any sort and no discrimination between the crossborder investors and also offers lucid regulations

13. Hong Kong is also world's second busiest container port.

These facts and figures keep on escalating each year indicating the progress of Hong Kong along with the passage of time!!

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