Culture

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Video: What is Hong Kong Culture?
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**Location **
**-** Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

**Population **
**-** 7,067,800 - 2010 (Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators)



Languages Spoken
Chinese and English are Hong Kong's two official languages. The Cantonese dialect is the most spoken language in the Hong Kong territory, although English is often used in the business and service industries. Many urban Hong Kong residents, young citizens can speak English to some degree. Further, other Chinese dialects: such as Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Chiu-Chow can be heard as well. Source - [|kwintessential.co.uk]

Fusion Culture
**Hong Kong has a very western "east-meets-west", fusion kind of culture.** This is because Hong Kong was owned by Britain in 1950s to 1997; now Hong Kong is owned by China. From this, Hong Kong has a lot of english restaurants and english culture, with the english spoken language and more. Now Hong Kong has a trend of fusion fashion and fusion cuisine where it has a "east-meets-west" theme, in other words, a little bit from both worlds.

Advanced in Technology
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Hong Kong is very high-tech. They have many new technologies that advances their environment for their city to run more efficiently.

<span style="color: #890b0b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">**Octopus card**
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The octopus is a rechargeable card used to make electronic payments. It is widely used throughout Hong Kong for purchases such as groceries, bus fares, products from vending machines, subway fares, food and much more. This method of payment is very commonly used as a quick way of paying by a simple swipe with the card. Each card can carry a maximum of $1000 Hong Kong Dollars. Using the HK octopus card on a vending machine

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