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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 7, 2005.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 12, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
July 7, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
November 14, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
February 20, 2010	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
August 31, 2010	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 7, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
October 23, 2010	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 18, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
June 16, 2013	Good article reassessment	Kept
May 1, 2016	Featured topic candidate	Not promoted
March 5, 2018	Peer review	Reviewed
April 21, 2018	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 31, 2018	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 17, 2018	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
November 3, 2018	Peer review	Not reviewed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 1, 2004, July 1, 2005, July 1, 2006, August 29, 2013, August 29, 2015, August 29, 2017, August 29, 2018, and August 29, 2022.
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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This article is written in Hong Kong English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, travelled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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Please wikilink Lantau Island in this article

Hello - There's one instance of Lantau Island in this article, in the Geography section. It should be linked to the Lantau Island article. I couldn't do it because the page is currently protected. Thanks! 166.181.80.221 (talk) 17:58, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Yue🌙 18:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Serious problem with this article

There's a serious omission in this article, which, extremely embarrassingly, has also been a problem for over 20 years now: nowhere in the current version of this article is there a map indicating which parts (i.e., prefecture-level administrative divisions) of the neighboring Guangdong province in the Pearl River Delta region are adjacent to or near Hong Kong. That's not very encyclopedic. It's not that hard; please fix!!!!!

Example of such a map that provides this very basic information that any users of this article would expect to find here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HK_in_June_2018_IX2_Guangdong_map.jpg

98.123.38.211 (talk) 15:25, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hong_Kong/Archive_8#Need_map 98.123.38.211 (talk) 15:24, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Area in the infobox is confusing

The real area is 1114 km2. And you're showing more than double of that because you're counting all the surrounding waters. Since when do we count the sea as part of the area of a territorial entity? 12qwas (talk) 21:06, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]