1. Special Administrative Region
Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region

2. General Information: Occupied by the U.K. in 1841.
Hong Kong was formally ceded by China in 1842.
December 19, China and U.K. signed agreement.
July 1, Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region or S.A.R.

3. China has promised that Hong Kong will experience freedom from the socialist economic system for the next 50 years.
China and Hong Kong are one country with two systems.

4. Location:
Absolute:
22*-15* North Latitude, and 114*-10* East Longitude.
Relative:
Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China.

6. Place: Area Comparative: Six times as big as Washington D.C. Climate:
Tropical monsoon. Cool and humid in the winter. Hot and rainy from spring through summer. Warm and sunny in the fall.
More than 200 separate islands!!!!!

7. Terrain:
Hilly to mountains with steep slopes. Lowlands in the North.

8. Low Point: South China Sea

9. High Point: Tai Mo Shan

10. Natural Hazards:
Occasional typhoons
Ethnicities:

11. Religion:

12. Human and Environmental Interaction
Air and Water pollution from rapid urbanization.
What is urbanization?
Making more land urban or city land.

13. Movement: Railways Highways Waterways Ports and Harbors: Hong Kong
Airports: 3- all are paved.
Heliports: 2

14. Heroin and methamphetamine are both shipped out to world markets.
Money laundering center.
Use of synthetic drugs is on the rise among the young people.

15. Region No international disputes.
In 1999 Hong Kong was given back to China by the U.K. as agreed upon in the original lease.