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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.
Night view of the skyline of Hong Kong, which has over 500 skyscrapers. The list of cities with most skyscrapers ranks cities around the world by their number of skyscrapers . A skyscraper is defined as a continuously habitable high-rise building that has over 40 floors [ 1 ] and is taller than approximately 150 m (492 ft). [ 2 ]
Hong Kong is the Chinese city with the most skyscrapers, [8] while Shenzhen has the most number of supertalls. [ 9 ] In June 2020, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) imposed a ban on the construction of super high-rise buildings taller than 500 m (1,600 ft), due to safety reasons and waste of resources. [ 10 ]
Shanghai skyline. This following lists the tallest buildings in China by city, including the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and excluding Taiwan.A total of 32 cities featured in this list currently have at least one supertall skyscraper.
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At present, Hong Kong has the world's biggest skyline with a total of 7,681 skyscrapers, placing it ahead of even New York City, despite the fact that New York is larger in area. [8] Most of these were built in past two decades. [8] Many skyscrapers in Hong Kong feature holes in them called "dragon gates".
The Bank of China Tower (BOC Tower) is a skyscraper located in Central, Hong Kong.Located at 1 Garden Road on Hong Kong Island, the tower houses the headquarters of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. [5]
Hong Kong is the ninth largest trading entity in exports and eighth largest in imports (2021), [231] [232] trading more goods in value than its gross domestic product. [231] [232] Over half of its cargo throughput consists of transshipments (goods travelling through Hong Kong). Products from mainland China account for about 40% of that traffic ...