HONG KONG
China
One of 20 GPFL Host Cities
KEY STADIUM
Hong Kong Stadium 40,000
POPULATION
Total 7,291,600 (2022)
Main Attractions
Disneyland, Tian Tan Buddha, Ocean Park, Victoria Peak, Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Avenue of Stars
Other Sports Venues
Happy Valley & Sha Tin Racecourses Horse Racing, Kai Tak Sports Park Various Sports
Most Visited City Ranking
20
World's Best City Ranking
16
Why did we choose Hong Kong?
Situated, literally, in the centre of eastern Asia, this economic powerhouse and international transport hub has the capacity, creativity and quality to take on one of its biggest ever challenges – hosting a GPFL club.
HONG KONG
Hong Kong is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. It is one of the most densely populated places in the world, a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world.
The territory was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin’an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.
Occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II, British administration resumed after the surrender of Japan. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As one of China’s two special administrative regions (the other being Macau), it maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems.”