The total area of Hong Kong is 1,090 square km consisting Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories and approximately 260 Islands.
The topography of Hong Kong is very rugged with limited lowland. Mountain ranges run mostly from northeast to southwest with the highest point at Tai Mo Shan (957 meters).
Hong Kong has a monsoon climate, dominated by the seasonal alternation of wind direction and the resulting contrast in weather between winter and summer.
Temperature falls to a mean of 15.2°C in February but occasionally drops to just above freezing point. It rise to a mean maximum of 27.9°C in summer with extreme temperatures reaching the mid-30s. The mean annual rainfall is 2,214 mm, 70 per cent of which falls between May and September. Fog is common between February and April.
Credit : History Museum of HK.
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