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Hong Kong[ e ] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [ f ] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Hong Kong on 23 January 2020. [ 2 ]
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU or HKPU) is a public research university in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded in 1937 as the first Government Trade School, it is the first institution to provide technical education in Hong ...
List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong. Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong skyline at night, taken in June 2019. Hong Kong has over 9,000 high-rise buildings, of which over 4,000 are skyscrapers standing taller than 100 m (328 ft) with 554 buildings above 150 m (492 ft), according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. [1][2][3] [A ...
Hong Kong's first City Hall, which existed from 1869 to 1933, occupied the current sites of the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building (partly) and the Bank of China Building. [1] It was designed by the French architect Achille-Antoine Hermitte and was opened by Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh , in a ceremony on 28 June 1869.
When Hong Kong was a colony of the United Kingdom, Mandarin Chinese (Chinese: 普通話, 現代標準漢語, 國語, 北方話) was not widely used in Hong Kong. Since the 1997 handover , the huge increase in inbound tourism from the mainland has led to much more widespread use of Mandarin, particularly in tourism-related commerce, though ...
People from Hong Kong generally refer to themselves, in Cantonese, as Hèung Góng Yàhn (Chinese: 香港人; Cantonese Yale: Hèung Góng Yàhn; lit. 'Hong Kong people'); however, the term is not restricted to those of Chinese descent, owing to Hong Kong's roughly 160-year colonial history that saw the civil servants and traders of British, Indian, Russian and other ethnic groups stationed in ...
The Timway Hong Kong Search Engine was introduced in 1997 by Tim Yu. [2] It was the first directory in Traditional Chinese and sorted results by popularity and freshness [vague] instead of alphabetical order. [3] Sina.com.hk used Timway in addition to Google for finding Hong Kong webpages. [4] Yahoo also cooperated with Timway for the search ...