Hong Kong

The country calling code for Hong Kong is +852. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Hong Kong number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Hong Kong is assigned HK as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and HKG as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Hong Kong is .hk. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Hong Kong is the Hong Kong dollar, with the ISO 4217 code HKD and the symbol $. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Hong Kong are quoted in HKD. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Hong Kong is +08:00, currently UTC+08:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Hong Kong is City of Victoria. Hong Kong sits in Asia, specifically the Eastern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 22.25000000, 114.16666666. Traffic in Hong Kong drives on the left. Languages recorded for Hong Kong: English, Chinese.

Hong Kong shares a land border with 1 country: China. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.