1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Hong Kong
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Hong Kong—7,396,076, Asia/Hong_Kong, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hong Kong is GeoNames ID 1819729. Its recorded administrative path is Hong Kong, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Hong Kong occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-08-25; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Hong Kong ranks 38 by recorded population. Inside the 4 selected Hong Kong entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 26. Its 7,396,076 population value is 10.10 times the 732,350 median for the country cohort and 7.33 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Hong Kong is rank 1 among the 4 selected Hong Kong entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Hong Kong's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Hong Kong's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Victoria at 3.302 km with 956,800 recorded people; Sha Tin at 11.71 km with 495,200 recorded people; Tuen Mun at 24.404 km with 507,900 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 21.102 km. Compared with Victoria, Hong Kong's recorded population is 7.73 times as large. Against Hong Kong, Victoria follows Central and Western → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Hong Kong cohort, uses the shared Asia/Hong_Kong identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Hong Kong's. Against Hong Kong, Sha Tin follows Sha Tin → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Hong Kong cohort, uses the shared Asia/Hong_Kong identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Hong Kong's. Against Hong Kong, Tuen Mun follows Tuen Mun → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Hong Kong cohort, uses the shared Asia/Hong_Kong identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Hong Kong's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 23 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hong Kong's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1819729, the coordinate pair 22.2783 / 114.1747, country rank 1 of 4, and neighbor GeoNames 1931681 at 3.302 km bind Hong Kong to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hong Kong's reference point is 22.2783° north and 114.1747° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Hong_Kong is shared by 4 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Hong Kong's row carries neither a first- nor second-order administrative label in this source. Hong Kong's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hong Kong's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hong Kong, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Hong Kong's closest other entries in this atlas are Victoria (3.302 km), Sha Tin (11.71 km), Tuen Mun (24.404 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Hong Kong, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-08-25; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.