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Hong Kong Guide (Chinese: 香港街) is a Hong Kong atlas published by the Survey and Mapping Office (SMO), Lands Department of Hong Kong Government. [1] From 2005, Hong Kong Guide 2005 includes photomaps in parallel to traditional maps .
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In 1989, considering Hong Kong a suitable place to start a magazine, they decided to establish an English-language publication. The first issue, called HK: the indispensable Hong Kong Guide, was published in June 1991 by the local private company Asia City Publishing Limited. [2] It had 24 pages and claimed a circulation of 15,000.
Hong Kong Island (Chinese: 香港島; Jyutping: Hoeng1 gong2 dou2; Cantonese Yale: Hēunggóng dóu) is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong.The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of 16,390 per square kilometre (42,400/sq mi), [2] as of 2023.
As the economy of Hong Kong shifting to tertiary industry, some factory building are transformed into offices. The headquarters of I-CABLE, a major cable TV and internet service provider in Hong Kong, is sited in the area. Due to the industries along the waterfront, there is a high amount of copper pollution among the species living in the ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Hong Kong: Hong Kong – one of two special administrative regions of China, the other being Macau . The territory lies on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta , bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south.
The area of Hong Kong is distinct from mainland China, but is considered a part of "Greater China". Hong Kong has a total area of 1,108 km 2 (428 sq mi), of which 3.16% is water. 260 islands are dispersed around Hong Kong, the largest of which by area is Lantau Island, located southwest of the main peninsula
Earnshaw Books is a Hong Kong–based publishing house specializing in English-language books about China and is considered to be "one of the more notable independent publishers in East Asia". [1] Earnshaw Books was founded in 2007 by CEO Graham Earnshaw.