Hong Kong: geography, population and climate

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. DailyGeo includes it as a playable territory and uses the city as its administrative centre, rather than treating it as a sovereign state with a separate capital.

Key figures

Climate through the year

Hong Kong averages 16.7 °C from December to February and 27.9 °C from June to August. January is the coldest month of the year and July the warmest, and the city receives 2,254 mm of precipitation in an average year.

Nearest capitals

Distances are great-circle distances between city centres, which is what the Capitals game measures when it tells you how far a guess was from the answer. Taipei is the closest capital to Hong Kong.

How to remember it

Reading a figure once rarely fixes it in memory. Attach Hong Kong to a place and a number you already know: it is 814 km from Taipei, and it is the 23rd largest capital in the atlas. Then practise retrieving it. DailyGeo Capitals gives you one mystery capital a day with distance, direction, language and population clues, the memorising method explains the review schedule, and the capitals index lists all 175.

To see how Hong Kong compares with every other country on figures like these, the richest countries by GDP per capita ranks them on geopolitix, a country-ranking game by the same maker as DailyGeo.

Sources

• City population and coordinates: DailyGeo's own game data, the same figures the Capitals game plays with. Population follows the urban area rather than the commune, which is why no density is quoted.
• Temperature and rainfall: ten-year means (2015 to 2024) computed from ERA5 reanalysis, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Hersbach, H., et al. (2020). The ERA5 global reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
• Elevation: terrain height at the city's coordinates in the Copernicus DEM, read through Open-Meteo rather than taken from a curated claim.
• Time zone: resolved from the same coordinates.
• Country figures: the World Bank, latest reported year for each series: Country GDP, GDP per capita, Country population, Life expectancy, Internet users.
• This capital elsewhere: Wikipedia, UNdata, Wikidata.
• Method and limits: How this data was collected explains how each figure was collected and what it does not cover.

The short answer

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