How to identify Hong Kong in GeoGuessr?

- The domain is .hk - Language is Cantonese (Hong Kong Chinese) - License plates: white front, yellow rear - Black-and-white bilingual street signs and road signs - Street View often shows concrete rural or mountain roads

Hong Kong(Hong Kong)

clues 4Updated 2023-07-01

Basics ▾Importance

LanguageTraditional Chinese, Cantonese, English

Driving sideDrives on the left

Domain.hk

Easily confused with:Taiwan, Macau, Japan, Singapore

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Whole area4

Clues that work anywhere in this area

Language & Script★★★

The language is Hong Kong Cantonese, a dialect of Cantonese.

Examples1

License Plate★★★

As in the UK, the front license plate is white and the rear one is yellow.

Watch outIf the plate has a black background, consider Macau.

Examples1 2 3 4 5SourcesJapan Research Institute Business & Economic Review, July 1997 issue — the handover of Hong Kong as seen from the UKSee alsoUnited Kingdom Macau

By Woodennature - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 (lightly edited)

Signs★★★

Black-and-white street name signs and other signs appear in two languages.

Examples1 2See alsoUnited Kingdom Nepal

Road★★★

Street View also covers underdeveloped areas, outlying islands, and hiking trails, often shot on foot along concrete-paved rural or mountain roads.

Examples1 2 3 4 5 6 7See alsoJapan Taiwan

Basics

General facts about this place

A special administrative region of China with a high degree of autonomy under "one country, two systems"^[ref]
One of the world's great port cities, with Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula facing each other across Victoria Harbour^[ref]

Nearby areas

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