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Geography

Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

Area:
total area: 1,040 sq km
land area: 990 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than six times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: total 30 km, China 30 km

Coastline: 733 km


People

Population: 5,542,869 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 19% (female 499,460; male 549,734)
15-64 years: 70% (female 1,866,540; male 2,016,684)
65 years and over: 11% (female 331,391; male 279,060)

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 population: 80.18 years
male: 76.78 years
female: 83.78 years

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)
total population: 77%
male: 90%
female: 64%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Hong Kong

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


Economy

National 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:
capacity: 8,930,000 kW
production: 33 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,628 kWh



Olympic Factoid
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.