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GeographyLocation: Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China
Area: Land boundaries: total 30 km, China 30 km Coastline: 733 km
PeoplePopulation: 5,542,869 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: -0.12% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 12.02 births/1,000 population Death rate: 6.02 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: -7.22 migrant(s)/1,000 population Infant mortality rate: 5.8 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 1.39 children born/woman Ethnic divisions: Chinese 95%, other 5% Religions: eclectic mixture of local religions 90%, Christian 10% Languages: Chinese (Cantonese), English
Literacy:
age 15 and over has ever attended school (1971)
Government
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Type: dependent territory of the UK scheduled to revert to China in 1997 Capital: Victoria Independence: none (dependent territory of the UK; the UK signed an agreement withChina on 19 December 1984 to return Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997; inthe joint declaration, China promises to respect Hong Kong's existing social and economic systems and lifestyle) Constitution: unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice; new BasicLaw approved in March 1990 in preparation for 1997
EconomyNational product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $136.1 billion National product real growth rate: 5.5% National product per capita: $24,530 Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.5% Unemployment rate: 1.9%
Electricity:
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| An estimated 5.3 million visted Centennial Olympic Park between opening day - 13 July - and closing day - 4 August, making the park the most single most visited Olympic site during the Games. |