Hong Kong
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Land and Climate: Hong Kong covers a total area of 2 916 square kilometres of which only 1 061 kilometres of it is land - the rest being surrounded by water. Rugged mountains and rolling hills cover much of beautiful Hong Kong. Some mountains rise more than 910 meters above sea level and 554 metres in other places. The rocky, indented coastlines of Hong Kong's islands and mainland provide many small harbours for fishing villages. Parts of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong have been filled in with earth to create new land. Barren mountains separate the business districts of the Kowloon Peninsula from the farmland in the New Territories. It's estimated that around only 10 per cent of the land in Hong Kong is suitable for farming. Rice paddies and vegetable and flower fields are seen throughout the New Territories, crowded between areas of poor vegetation and rocky hillsides. An undersized...

