HONG KONG 2004
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Hong Kong: The Facts
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Population
Area
Weather
Employment
The Economy
Transport
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Transport
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Roads
The 1 944 km of roads (as at end-2004) carry 532 872 licensed vehicles, or about 274 vehicles per kilometre
Bridges
Longest: Tsing Ma suspension bridge (main span 1 377 metres) and the cable-stayed Ting Kau Bridge (two main spans totalling 923 metres)
Air movements
2004—237 308 flights; 36.29 million passengers; 3.09 million tonnes of freight
Shipping movements
2004—35 900 ocean vessel arrivals; 35 470 departures; port cargo throughput 220.9 million tonnes
Container throughput
2004—21.98 million TEUs
Notes: figures presented on this page refer to those released up to end-March 2005
# provisional figures
less than 0.005 million
 
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