• Area: 2755.03 km2
• Location: Eastern side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong Province, facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south.
• Climate: Subtropical
• Population: 6.93 million (as of 2005)
• People: Hong Kong Chinese, Philippines, Indonesian, Thai, British, Japanese
• Language: Hong Kong's official languages are Cantonese and English; signs in both languages are omnipresent throughout Hong Kong. The government, police and most workplaces and stores conduct business bilingually.
• The main religions and beliefs: Buddhism (mainly Chinese Mahayana), Taoism, Christian
• Currency and monetary unit: Hong Kong dollar
• Law system: continues common law. Additionally, following "one country, two systems", territory's defense and foreign affairs responded by China Central Government
• Administrative demarcations: 18 geographic

Geography:

Hong Kong lies on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south. Hong Kong consists primarily of Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island, Kowloon Peninsula and teh New Territories as well as some 260 other islands. The Kowloon Peninsula ia attached to the New Territories to the north, and the New Territories spans northwards eventually connecting with mainland China across the Sham Chun River (Shenzhen River). Overall, while Lantau is the largest island, Hong Kng Island is the second largest and the most populated. Ap Lei Chau is the most densely populated island in the world.

Economy:

Hong Kong has free markets system, low taxation and governmetn non-intervention. It is an important centre for international finance and trade, with the greatest concentration of corporate headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region. In terms of gross domestic product per capita and gross metropolitan product, Hong Kong is the wealthiest urban centre in the People's Republic of China. The GDP (PPP) per capita of Hong Kong exceeds the four big economies in Western Europe (UK, Grance, Germany, Italy), as well as Japan.

It has ranked as the freest economy in the world in the Index of Economic Freedom for 14 consecutive years, since the inception of the idnex in 1995. Together with Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, Hong Kong is known as one of the four Asian Tigers, or Dragons for its high growth  rates and rapid industrialization between the 1960s and the 1990s. Hong Kong is the world's eleventh largest trading entity.

The city of London Corporation's Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) ranks Hong Kong as the third-best financial centre globally and the strongest centre in Asia among 46 financial centres worldwide in 2007. Hong Kong's economy is dominated by services, which account for over 90 % of its gross domestic product.

Culture:

Hong Kong is frequently described as a place where East meets West, a meeting reflected in its inhabitants. On one street corner, there may be traditional Chinese shops selling Chinese herbal medicine, Buddhist paraphernalia or bowls of synthetic shark fin soup, but around a the next, one may find theatres showing the latest Hollywood blockbuster, and English-style pub, or a Catholic Dhurch. Another famous export is its entertainment industry, particularly in the martial arts genre which gained a high level popularity in the late 1960s and 1970s. Several Hollywood performers origiinate form Hong Kong cinema, notably Bruce Lee, How Yun-Fat, and Jackie Chan. Hong Kong is also the world's main hub for Cantopop music. The Hong Kong government also supports cultural institutions such as the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

Events and Festival in 2008:

Some of the tradtional Festivals in Hong Kong are same to the mainland in China. Also Hong Kong encourages and supports the newly different international events and  festivals.

• Hong Kong Arts Festival (Feburary 14 to March 16, 2008)
• The 32^nd Hong Kong International film Festival (March 17 to April6, 2008)
• Le French May (April 10 to June 15, 2008)
• Italy 2008: Quality & Lifestyle (June 2008)
• Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games (December 05 to December 13, 2008)

Daily Life:

The region is cloudy in January and February, meeting with the occasional cold fronts. In March and April, it is pleasant, with occasional humidity. From May to August, teh region is hot and humid, occasionally confronted with showers and thunderstorms. During November and December, there are plesant breezes, with plenty of sunhsine and comfortable temperatures.

Hong Kong has a highly developed and state-of-the-art transport network, encompassing both public and private transport. The Octopus card stored value smart card payment sytem can be used to pay for fares on almost all railways, busses and ferries in Hong Kong. All parking metres in Hong Kong accept payment by Octopus card only, and Octopus card payment can be made at various car parks.

Hong Kong is dominated by steep, hilly terrain, an dsome unusual methods of transport have been devised to ease movement up and down the slopes. For example, the Peak Tram, being the first public transport system in Hong Kong, has provided vertical rail transport between Central and Victoria Peak since 1888 by steeply ascending the side of a mountain. Hong Kong has the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world, the Mid-Levels escalator. Most ferry services are provided by licensed ferry operators serving outlying islands, new towns, across Victoria Harbour, Macau and cities in mainland China.

Many shopping malls and night clubs attract the visitors from all over the world.