Protection & Enforcement of IPRs in Hong Kong
Hong Kong 香港 | |||||
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
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_(%2Ball_claims_hatched).svg) Location of Hong Kong within China | |||||
| Sovereign state | People's Republic of China | ||||
| British possession | 26 January 1841 | ||||
| Treaty of Nanking | 29 August 1842 | ||||
| Convention of Peking | 24 October 1860 | ||||
| New Territories lease | 9 June 1898 | ||||
| Imperial Japanese occupation | 25 December 1941 to 30 August 1945 | ||||
| Sino-British Joint Declaration | 19 December 1984 | ||||
| Handover to China | 1 July 1997 | ||||
| National Security Law enacted | 30 June 2020 | ||||
| Official languages | |||||
| Cantonese[a] | |||||
| Traditional Chinese[b] English alphabet | |||||
| Ethnic groups (2016) | 92.0% Han Chinese 2.5% Filipino 2.1% Indonesian 0.8% White 0.5% Indian 0.3% Nepalese 1.6% other[6] | ||||
| Demonym(s) | Hong Konger Hong Kongese | ||||
| Government | Devolved executive-led system within a unitary one-party socialist republic[7] | ||||
| Carrie Lam | |||||
| John Lee | |||||
| Andrew Leung | |||||
| Andrew Cheung | |||||
| Legislature | Legislative Council | ||||
| National representation | |||||
| 36 deputies | |||||
| 203 delegates[8] | |||||
| Area | |||||
• Total | 2,754.97[9] km2 (1,063.70 sq mi) (168th) | ||||
• Water (%) | 59.70% (1644.79 km2; 635.05 sq mi)[9] | ||||
• Land | 1,110.18 km2 (428.64 sq mi)[9] | ||||
| Highest elevation | 957 m (3,140 ft) | ||||
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) | ||||
| Population | |||||
• 2019 estimate | 7,500,700 [10] (103rd) | ||||
• Density | 6,777[11]/km2 (17,552.3/sq mi) (4th) | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2021 estimate | ||||
• Total |  $472.395 billion[12] (46th) | ||||
• Per capita | $62,839[12] (10th) | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2021 estimate | ||||
• Total | $368.633 billion[12] (39th) | ||||
• Per capita | $49,036[12] (20th) | ||||
| Gini (2016) |  53.9[13]high | ||||
| HDI (2019) | 0.949[14] very high · 4th | ||||
| Currency | Hong Kong dollar (HK$) (HKD) | ||||
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (HKT) | ||||
| Date format | dd-mm-yyyy yyyy年mm月dd日 | ||||
| Mains electricity | 220 V–50 Hz | ||||
| Driving side | left[c] | ||||
| Calling code | +852 | ||||
| ISO 3166 code | |||||
| Internet TLD | |||||
| License plate prefixes | None for local vehicles, 粤Z for cross-boundary vehicles | ||||
| Abbreviation | HK / 港 | ||||
Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.