The Profile and history of Hong Kong with important Destinations
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as it is officially known, lies on south of Guangdong province of China, east of the Pearl River Delta and the South China Sea in the east, west and north. The political Hong Kong Map clearly defines the geographical and administrative outline of the country. The sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1997. For administrative purposes, the Hong Kong Special Administrative District if further sub-divided into 18 districts on the basis of geographic demarcations as can be seen in the maps of Hong Kong.
Some of the important districts of Hong Kong are enlisted below:
1. The Central and Western district depicted in the city map of Hong Kong, which boasts of the second highest income and the third lowest population levels.
2. The Eastern District, which can be easily spotted in the North-eastern region in the Hong Kong City Map. The district has second highest population with the third highest income in the Hong Kong.
3. Tai Po district is situated on the estuaries of Lam Tsuen and Tai Po rivers, which earlier formed a part of the reclaimed lands. Located in the New Territories in the Hong Kong Map, it covers Tai Po, Ting Kok and the northern portion of Sai Kung Peninsula.
As a capitalist free market economy, the country has made immense economic progress and boasts of a higher GDP Per Capita as compared to Japanese as well as several European economies. Of its 6.99 million population, 95% people are of Chinese descent with the rest of the 5% including a population of non-ethnic Chinese along with a smaller section of South Asian as well as European and other people.
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