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In amongst the glazy buildings that line Victoria Harbour
在維多利亞港排成一線的玻璃建筑中
are older colonial buildings that were once the headquarters of the British Administration that ran Hong Kong.
夾雜著老舊的殖民地建筑，它們曾是管理香港的英國政府總部
On the fist of July 1997, Hong Kong was formally handed back to China, ending 156 years of British rule.
在1997年7月1日，香港正式被交還給中國，結束了英國156年的統治
Although it shares many cultural traits with China,
盡管它與中國有著許多共同的文化特征
as a global centre of finance and with its international history
作為全球金融中心，加上其國際歷史血脈
Hong Kong has always maintained its own unique identity.
香港始終保持著自己的獨特性
The region of Hong Kong is on the southern coast of China at the Pearl River estuary,
香港位于中國南部海岸的珠江口地區
an area composed of more than 250 islands,
這片區域由250多個島嶼組成
the urban core of Hong Kong is Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
香港的市中心是香港島和九龍
Kong is the Chinese word for Harbour and Hong means fragrant or picturesque
"港"在中文是港口的意思，"香"的意思是芳香的或者風景如畫的
and indeed before this came the metropolis it is today,
確實，在香港成為如今的大都市之前
it would have been very picturesque, a tiny little fishing community.
的確是一個風景如畫的小小漁村
Now it's an entirely different sort of picturesque.
現在的香港完全是另一番景色
This is one of the most recognised and photographed skylines in the world.
這是世界上最容易識別上鏡率最高的摩天城市之一
Hong Kong truly is a vertical city.
香港的確是一個垂直城市
Because of its geography, space is at a premium which means
由于其地理條件，香港的空間十分寶貴
it has one of the highest population densities in the world.
這意味著香港的人口密度在全球名列前茅
There are over 7 million people here with 57,000 people per square kilometre in places.
這里有七百多萬人，基本上每平方公里達五萬七千人
To house them all, the city has had to build upwards.
為了安置所有人，城市必須向上建造
Today Hong Kong has over 460 skyscrapers 100 metres or taller. London, just 49.
如今香港有460多座百米甚至更高的摩天大樓。倫敦只有49座
And its tallest is the International Commerce Centre.
香港最高的建筑是環球貿易廣場
You can take the shard and put Nelson's column on top three times and it will still be smaller.
往夏德大廈上壘上3座納爾遜紀念碑仍然不及它高
