Hong Kong
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- HK
- ISO alpha-3
- HKG
- ISO numeric
- 344
- FIPS 10-4
- HK
- GeoNames ID
- 1819730
Key facts
- Capital
- Hong Kong
- Area
- 1,092 km²
- Population
- 7,396,076
- Currency
- Dollar (HKD)
- Calling code
- +852
- Top-level domain
- .hk
- Official languages
- zh-HK,yue,zh,en
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Min latitude
- 22.177069403000075
- Min longitude
- 113.837331576
- Max latitude
- 22.56394603200009
- Max longitude
- 114.40129642000011
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/HK?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1092,
"capital": "Hong Kong",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "HKD",
"iso3_code": "HKG",
"iso_code": "HK",
"name": "Hong Kong",
"population": 7396076
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/HK/regions/v1/cities?country=HK/v1/postal-codes?country=HK/v1/timezones?country=HK
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- هونغ كونغ
- Chinese
- 香港
- English
- Hong Kong
- French
- Hong Kong
- German
- Hong Kong
- Hindi
- हाँग काँग
- Italian
- Hong Kong
- Japanese
- 香港
- Korean
- 홍콩
- Portuguese
- Hong Kong
- Russian
- Гонконг
- Spanish
- Hong Kong
- Total language variants
- 113
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Hong_Kong | UTC+08:00 | UTC+08:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ######
- Pattern
^(\d{6})$
First-level administrative regions
- Sha Tin
- Eastern
- Kwun Tong
- Yuen Long District
- Kwai Tsing
- Tuen Mun
- Wong Tai Sin
- Sai Kung District
- Sham Shui Po
- Kowloon City
- Tai Po District
- Tsuen Wan District
- North
- Yau Tsim Mong
- Southern
- Central and Western District
- Wan Chai
- Islands District
18 of 18 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Hong Kong | 7,396,076 |
| New Territories | 3,984,077 |
| Kowloon | 2,232,339 |
| Hong Kong Island | 1,195,529 |
| Victoria | 956,800 |
| Tuen Mun | 507,900 |
| Sha Tin | 495,200 |
| Sham Shui Po | 431,090 |
| Wong Tai Sin | 425,235 |
| Kowloon City | 418,732 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 1,342
- First-level regions
- 18
- Postal codes
- 1
- Name languages
- 113
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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