Introduction to hong kong, Macao and Taiwan geography

1 The name Hong Kong comes from Hong Kong Island, which is located outside the Pearl River Estuary and in the South China Sea. It also includes more than 200 small islands in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, New Territories and their surrounding areas, consisting of 235 small islands.

The topography of Hong Kong is dominated by hills, and the highest point is Tai Mo Shan, which is 958 meters above sea level.

Hong Kong has less flat land, and about 20% of the land belongs to lowlands, mainly concentrated in the northern New Territories.

The Macao Special Administrative Region is located on the southeast coast of China, on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary and south of the Tropic of Cancer.

The northern part is the Macau Peninsula connecting Chinese mainland, and the southern part is a big island consisting of Taipa Island, Luhuan and Taipa Island. It belongs to an island city, and there is no official name yet.

Taiwan Province Province includes Taiwan Province Island and 2/kloc-0 affiliated islands such as Lan Yu Island, Green Island and Diaoyu Island, as well as 64 islands of Penghu Islands, of which Taiwan Province Island covers an area of 35,873 square kilometers. At present, the so-called Taiwan Province Province usually includes Jinmen and Mazu islands in Fujian Province, with a total area of 36,006 square kilometers.

Taiwan Province Province is mountainous, with mountains and hills accounting for more than two thirds of the total area. The mountains in Taiwan Province Province are parallel to the northeast-southwest trend of Taiwan Province Island and vertically located in the central and eastern part of Taiwan Province Island, forming the topographic features of the eastern mountainous area, the middle hilly area and the western plain of Taiwan Province Island. There are five mountains, four plains and three great basin mountains on the island of Taiwan Province Province, namely, Central Mountain, Snow Mountain, Yushan Mountain, Alishan Mountain and Taitung Mountain, Yilan Plain, Jianan Plain, Pingtung Plain and Taitung Longitudinal Valley Plain, Taipei Basin, Taichung Basin and Puli Basin. The central mountain runs through the north and south, and Yushan is 3952 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in East China. Taiwan Province Island is located in the Pacific Rim seismic belt and volcanic belt, with unstable crust and frequent earthquakes.