Hong Kong

Blog post and photography by Peter Hemenway

Hong Kong in December

It is interesting to note that Hong Kong is not only one of the most densely populated areas in the world but also the population is about 95 percent ethnic Chinese. Hong Kong has the longest life expectancy of any country in the world since 2012

Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the First Opium War

Now Hong Kong is a world's leading international financial center

Because of the relative small space the city expanded upwards and it became the most vertical city