Hong Kong - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesHong Kong is located Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China. The climate is subtropical monsoon; cool and humid in winter, hot and rainy from spring through summer, warm and sunny in fall. The terrain is hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 3.875 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 10.55 million (2007)
Telephone system
This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entryTelephone system - general assessment : modern facilities provide excellent domestic and international services
Telephone system - domestic : microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network
Telephone system - international : country code - 852; multiple international submarine cables provide connections to Asia, US, Australia, the Middle East, and Western Europe; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean); coaxial cable to Guangzhou, China
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 5, FM 9, shortwave 0 (2004)
Radios
Radios : 4.45 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 55 (2 TV networks, each broadcasting on 2 channels) (2007)
Televisions
Televisions : 1.84 million (1997)
Internet country code
This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).Internet country code : .hk
Internet hosts
This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.Internet hosts : 817,766 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 17 (2000)
Internet users
This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.Internet users : 3.961 million (2007)
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