Lying at the southeastern tip of China, Hong Kong adjoins the province of Guangdong (Canton), and is just south of the tropic of Cancer. The total land area of Hong Kong is 1,078 square kilometres, comprising Hong Kong Island (77.5 square kilometres); Kowloon (45.5 square kilometres); and the New Territories, including 235 Outlying islands (955 square kilometres). The New Territories has a 20km (12mi) land border with China proper. On a one hour cruise further south you can reach Macau, the former Portugeze enclave.
Today Hong Kong has become a great international trading post, a powerful manufacturing base and one of the world's largest financial centres.
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- Guangdong Province (incl. Guangzhou [Canton])
- Hong Kong Island
- Kowloon
- Macau
- New Territories
- Outer Islands
- Shenzhen
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