geography of hk

• cities usually have high populations
• countries have many villages, towns and a capital city
• territories of HK


  HK island, new territories and outlying islands
• there are 263 islands in HK
• hong kong's relief


  very hilly and mountainous
• benefits of hk's relief


  more trees and oxygen, more wildlife, better views which attract tourists and good defense
• challenges of hk's relief


  harder to build on mountainous areas, hard to travel from place to place, natural disasters such as landslides and lack of space of developments
• solutions to hk challenges


  trams to reach the top of the peak, tunnels and cable cars
• relief


  land shape and its changes across a landscape area

  key words: mountainous, uneven, flat (always refer to height and shape)
• gradient


  a measure of steepness , of how steep or gentle a slope is
• altitude


  identifies or describes the height of land below sea level usually in meters
• HK has extinct volcanoes which formed mountains from lava
• choropleth maps


  uses color to represent height on a map
• HK population


  7.5 million people
• HK has a density of 7000 people/km2
• what affects population?


  Birth rate, death rate, migration.
• birth rate


  number of live birth per 1000 ppl per year
• death rate


  number of deaths per 1000 people per year
• migration


  when someone moves from one place to another
• fertility rate 


  the average number of babies a woman has in her lifetime per country
• natural increase


  how much a population is rising due to births and deaths alone
• stagnate


  flat
• urbanisation


  process of urban areas growing in size and population over time as people migrate from rural to urban areas
• tourism geography


  the study of travel and tourism
• benefits of tourism

  • tourists spending boosts local businesses
  • increased tax revenue from tourist businesses
  • improves our reputation(positive multiplier effect)
  • provides jobs
• problems of tourists

  • more litter
  • clashes between locals and visitors
  • increased air pollution from cars and airplanes
  • increased crowds and queues
  • traffic congestions