Hong Kong: Perbedaan antara revisi

|isbn=0-600-61532-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/top10ofeverythin0000ashr_u2s3/page/78 78]|year=2006 }}</ref> Populasi Hong Kong saat ini terdiri dari 93.6% etnis Tionghoa.<ref name="census1">{{Cite report|date=February 2012|title=2011 Population Census – Summary Results|url=http://www.census2011.gov.hk/pdf/summary-results.pdf|publisher=[[Census and Statistics Department (Hong Kong)|Census and Statistics Department]]|accessdate=5 September 2013|format=PDF|archive-date=2019-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021224429/https://www.census2011.gov.hk/pdf/summary-results.pdf|dead-url=yes}}</ref> Sebagian besar dari penduduk Hong Kong yang berbahasa Kanton berasal dari Provinsi [[Guangdong]],<ref name="cicred">{{cite journal|url=http://www.cicred.org/Eng/Publications/pdf/c-c21.pdf|last=Fan Shuh Ching|title=The Population of Hong Kong|work=World Population Year|publisher=[[Cicred|Committee for International Coordination of National Research in Demography]]|year=1974|pages=18–20|accessdate=25 August 2010}}</ref> di mana penduduk dengan keterampilan melarikan diri ketika pemerintah [[Komunis]] mengontrol Tiongkok tahun 1949.<ref>Second paragraph reads, "The first wave of refugees came to Hong Kong in the 1930s to escape from the Chinese Civil War and the Sino-Japanese War, but it wasn't until 1949, during the Chinese exodus, when an estimated one million-plus mainland Chinese started coming into the city via the northern borders. Many people, mostly anti-communist Kuomintang officials and capitalists, rushed to Hong Kong in search of refuge." {{cite web |last = |first = |title =A history of refugees in Hong Kong |work = |publisher =Time Out Hong Kong – Know your City |date =18 June 2013 |url =http://www.timeout.com.hk/feature-stories/features/59040/a-history-of-refugees-in-hong-kong.html |doi = |accessdate =9 September 2013 |archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20130810121844/http://www.timeout.com.hk/feature-stories/features/59040/a-history-of-refugees-in-hong-kong.html |archivedate =2013-08-10 |dead-url =yes }}</ref><ref name=":0">Page 16, "The turmoil on the mainland, leading to the defeat of the Nationalists and takeover by the Communists in 1949, unleashed a torrent of refugees – both rich and poor -into Hong Kong."{{cite book|last =|first =|authorlink =|title = Hong Kong: Facts about Hong Kong -History|publisher = [[Lonely Planet]]|series =|volume =|edition =10th|year =2002|location = Hong Kong|page = 16|url =|doi =|id =|isbn =1864502304|mr =|zbl =|jfm = }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title =Veterans who fled mainland for Hong Kong in 1970s tell their stories|newspaper = [[South China Morning Post]]|location = Hong Kong|pages =|publisher =|url =http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1120852/veterans-who-fled-mainland-hong-kong-1970s-tell-their-stories|accessdate = 9 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last = Carroll|first = John|authorlink =|title =A Concise History of Hong Kong|publisher = Rowman &amp; Littlefield|series =|volume =|edition =|year =2007|location =|page = [https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof0000carr/page/127 127]|url =https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof0000carr|doi =|id =|isbn =978-0742534223|mr =|zbl =|jfm = }}</ref>

Hong Kong terletak di laut Tiongkok selatan, {{convert|60|km|mi|abbr=on}} sebelah timur [[Makau]] di sisi berlawanan dari [[Delta Sungai Mutiara]]. Dikelilingi [[Laut Tiongkok Selatan]] di timur, selatan, dan barat, dan berbatasan dengan kota [[Shenzhen]] di utara, di seberang [[Sungai Sham Chun]] (Sungai Shenzhen). Luas daerahnya adalah {{convert|1104|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} terdiri dari [[Pulau Hong Kong]], [[Kowloon]], dan [[Wilayah Baru|New Territories]], dan lebih dari 200 pulau lepas pantai, [[Pulau Lantau]] adalah yang terbesar sedangkan Hong Kong adalah yang kedua terbesar dan populasinya adalah yang terbesar. Dari keseluruhan total, {{convert|1054|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} adalah darat dan {{convert|50|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} adalah air. Hong Kong mengklaim laut teritorial sejauh {{convert|3|nmi|km|abbr=out}}. Luas daratan Hong Kong menjadikanm<ref name=":0" />enjadikan luasnya urutan ke-179 di dunia.<ref name="censtatd"/><ref name="cia"/>

# Karena sebagian besar daratan Hong Kong adalah pegunungan dengan kecuraman tajam, kurang dari 25% luas daerahnya yang terbangun, dan sekitar 40% sisa luas daratan dijadikan [[konservasi di Hong Kong|taman kota]] dan [[cagar alam]].<ref>{{cite book|title=An Introduction to the Cape d'Aguilar Marine Reserve, Hong Kong|url=https://archive.org/details/introductiontoca0000mort|first=Brian|last=Morton|first2=Elizabeth|last2=Harper|publisher=[[University of Hong Kong|Hong Kong University Press]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/introductiontoca0000mort/page/9 9]|isbn=9789622093881|year=1995}}</ref> Vegetasi ketinggian rendah di Hong Kong didominasi oleh [[hutan hujan]] [[hutan sekunder|sekunder]], karena hutan primernya sudah hancur di Perang Dunia II. Sebagian besar pengembangan kota kawasan ini berada di Semenanjung Kowloon, sepanjang pesisir utara Pulau Hong Kong, dan seluruh New Territories.<ref name="Census2006">{{cite web