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Key facts
- Sovereign state
- Hong Kong
- Total
- 952 km (368 sq mi)
- Density
- 3,801/km (9,840/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00 ( Hong Kong Time )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Hong Kong
- Population
- 3691093
- Area
- 368
- Time zone
- Hong Kong Time
- Shares border with
- Hong Kong Island
- Image
- HK ShatinNewTown 2008 08.JPG
- Significant event
- lease
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- Commons category
- New Territories
- native label
- 新界
- topic's main category
- Category:New Territories
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Encyclopedic overview
The New Territories is the largest of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it is the region described in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that treaty, the territories comprise the mainland area north of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River (which is the border between Hong Kong and mainland China), as well as over 200 outlying islands, including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong.
Butterfly Bay in New Territories Flag of the New Territories Regional Council, which was disbanded on the last day of 1999
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Territories” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.