Talk:Hong Kong

Hong Kong is not a city.

For a second time this article has been edited to start "Hong Kong City" or "Hong Kong...is a city." This just is wrong. Hong Kong is a region. It is also the name of an island but there is no City called Hong Kong. The region of Hong Kong contains several cities such as Kowloon City and Victoria City. There are many other settlements, towns and villages throughout the territories and islands of Hong Kong. Derek Harkness 08:34, 21 April 2008 (CDT)

How about "metropolitan area", then? Technically Boston doesn't include the place where Harvard is, but everyone no doubt thinks of it as "Boston". (And, yeah, I know the New Territories are mostly rural, but what makes Hong Kong famous is the urban area.) J. Noel Chiappa 15:35, 21 April 2008 (CDT)

We are here to teach people what is correct, not re-enforce their misconceptions. Hong Kong isn't a "metropolitan area". The status of Hong Kong as a "Special Administrative Region" of China is significant. It's important politically and historically for both Hong Kong and China main. If you alter then name, you change the political status of the place. For a long time, the status of Hong Kong was controversial, and some would argue it still is. It's important that we are accurate so that we are not biased. Derek Harkness 19:09, 21 April 2008 (CDT)

I think even with the general dumbing down of 'Merka, most ppl would still think of Fight Fiercely, Harvard, Fight, Fight, Fight as being in Cambridge.... Ditto for that other place that begins with an M. Or am I being an elitist?