{"id":2023,"date":"2019-05-20T03:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/?page_id=2023"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:12:41","slug":"geography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/useful-utile\/geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography (Hong Kong)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know about you but before coming to Hong Kong, I could not even spot it on a map. So I thought it would be helpful to give you a few clue about its geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Je ne sais pas pour vous, mais moi, je ne savais m\u00eame pas situer Hong Kong sur une carte. Je me suis dit que ce serait utile de vous donner quelques indices sur sa g\u00e9ographie.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hong Kong is an independent Chinese territory. It is China without being really China. Everything is translated in English and Mandarin (the official language). A lot of people speak enough English. For those (like me) who had no idea what Hong Kong was, it is a main island (Hong Kong Island) and a bit of mainland China on the other side of Victoria Harbour (Kowloon and the New Territories) and a lot of islands more or less big (the 2 biggest are Lantau and Lamma Islands). Most of the space is taken by natural parks. The forests are very lush. Which means that all the inhabited areas are very crowded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong est un territoire chinois ind\u00e9pendant. C’est la Chine sans \u00eatre vraiment la Chine. Tout est traduit en anglais et en mandarin (la langue officielle). Beaucoup de gens parlent suffisamment anglais. Pour ceux (comme moi) qui n\u2019avaient jamais regard\u00e9 sur une carte, Hong Kong est constitu\u00e9 d’une \u00eele principale (l\u2019\u00eele de Hong Kong), un peu de Chine continentale de l\u2019autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 du port de Victoria (Kowloon et les nouveaux territoires) et de nombreuses \u00eeles plus ou moins grandes (les deux plus grandes sont les \u00eeles de Lantau et de Lamma). La majeure partie de l’espace est occup\u00e9e par des parcs naturels. Les for\u00eats sont luxuriantes. Ce qui signifie que les zones habit\u00e9es sont tr\u00e8s peupl\u00e9es.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following maps will help you understand the different areas I talk about in my posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les cartes suivantes vous aideront \u00e0 comprendre les diff\u00e9rentes zones dont je parle sur ce site.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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