Travel to Hong Kong

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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Hong Kong

• Time Zone: GMT/UTC +8
• Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
• Currency: Hong Kong Dollar ($)
• Country Dialing Code: 852

Hong Kong

(special administrative region of China)

Location
Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

Capital

Population
6,898,686 (July 2005 est.)

Regions
none

Climate
subtropical monsoon; cool and humid in winter, hot and rainy from spring through summer, warm and sunny in fall

Ethnic groups
Chinese 95%, other 5%

Religions
eclectic mixture of local religions 90%, Christian 10%

Languages
Chinese (Cantonese), English; both are official

Government type
limited democracy

Background
Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.

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