Name: Cheung Yu Hin 2012

Class: 5A

Date:

11th May

Comparing and contrasting of 3 different places

Purpose: Compare and contrast social, geographic and economic factors between Hong Kong and Taiwan

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Hong Kong

China

Area - Total

35,883 km2 (13,855 square miles)[ The Tropic of Cancer (23.5 N) running across Taiwans middle section divides the island into two climates.

1,104 km2 (426 square miles) In Hong Kong, though it is hot and rainy from spring through summer, it is very warm and sunny in fall cool and very humid in winter. Hong Kong's terrain is hilly and mountainous with steep slopes. There are lowlands in the northern part of Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, there are air and water pollutions from rapid urbanization.

9,600,000 km2( 3,700,000 square miles) Chinas climate varies radically. China has lots of temperature and rainfall zones, including continental monsoon areas. In winter most areas become cold and dry, in summer hot and rainy. There are mostly mountains in China. There are also high plateaus, desserts in the west, plains, deltas and hills in the east. In China, there is air pollution from reliance on coal produces acid rain, water shortages, particularly in the north. These gases come from the Carbon Dioxide and Sulfur in the air. There is also water pollution from untreated wastes and deforestation.

Climate

Terrain

In Taiwan, there are rugged mountains that covered the east and there is a lot of flat land on the western side of Taiwan. There is air pollution, water pollution from industrial emissions and raw sewage from Taiwan. There is also contamination of drinking water supplies, trade in endangered species and low-level radioactive waste disposal

Environment current issues

Nationality Ethnic Groups

Taiwanese In Taiwan, there are 84% of Taiwanese (including Hakka), 14% mainland Chinese and 2% indigenous people living in Taiwan.

Chinese or Hong Konger In Hong Kong, there are 95% Chinese, 1.6% Filipino, 1.3% Indonesian, and 2.1% others.

Chinese In China, there are 91.5% of Han Chinese, 8.5% of Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities living in China Chinese people speak Standard Chinese, Putonghua Cantonese, Shanghainese, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, or minority languages. In China, people believed in Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4% and Muslim 1%-2%. 1,343,239,923 people China is a Communist state country. Chinas GDP is $11.29 trillion China exports electrical machinery and appliances, textiles, apparel, footwear, watches and clocks, toys, plastics, precious stones and printed materials to other countries.

Languages

In Taiwan, people speak Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min) or Hakka dialects.

90.8% speaks Cantonese, 2.8% speaks English, 0.9% speaks Putonghua, 1.1%

Religions

In Taiwan, there is mixture of Buddhist and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, others 2.5% 23,113,901 people Taiwan is Communist state country. Taiwans GDP is $885.3 billion
Taiwan exports electronics,

In Hong Kong, there are 90% of eclectic mixture of local religions, and 10% who believe in Christian. 7,153,519 people Hong Kong is a limited democracy country. Hong Kongs GDP is $350.4 billion Hong Kong exports electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textiles, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment to other countries.

Population Government Type GDP - per capita (PPP) Exports commodities

flat panels, machinery, metals, textiles, plastics, chemicals, optical, photographic, measuring, and medical and instruments to other countries.

Imports commodities

Taiwan imports electronics, machinery, crude petroleum, precision instruments, organic chemicals and metals from other countries.

Hong Kong imports raw materials and semimanufactures, consumer goods, capital goods, foodstuffs and fuel from other countries

China imports electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, plastics and organic chemicals from other countries.