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Hong Kong is one of the densest places on earth and one of the most photographed, and it is also much bigger than the skyline suggests: most of the territory is hills, country parks and islands. It is divided into 18 districts, and every road sign, bus route and district council election is organised around them. This page is all 18, the four areas they fall into, and how to tell them apart on a map that is mostly harbour.
The districts are the tier below the territory itself: each has a district council and a district office, and together they cover the whole of Hong Kong without a gap, islands included. Their names are written in English as the government writes them, and the game can show each in traditional Chinese characters as well (turn on the local name in the start dialog), which is what a street sign in Hong Kong carries.
The groups are the four areas Hong Kong is taught in. Hong Kong Island is the four districts on the island itself. Kowloon is the five on the peninsula across Victoria Harbour. Everything else is the New Territories, which is by far the largest part of the territory and is usually split into an eastern half (North, Tai Po, Sha Tin and Sai Kung) and a western half (Kwai Tsing, Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long and the Islands). These are the same areas the territory's own geographic constituencies and bus networks use.
The sizes are wildly uneven. Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po and Wan Chai are a few streets wide, and fit inside the Islands district, which is made of Lantau, Lamma, Cheung Chau and the other outlying islands. Those are the ones the game gives a tap area, so they can be hit on a phone.
The traps are a few names that point somewhere else.
The Eastern and Southern districts are both on Hong Kong Island. There is no district of the territory called East or South, and Eastern is not the easternmost part of Hong Kong (Sai Kung is).
North is a border district, not the north of the territory. Tai Po and Yuen Long also reach the northern edge, and the North district is the one around Sheung Shui and Fanling, facing Shenzhen across the river.
The Islands are not the island. Hong Kong Island is four districts. The Islands district is a separate thing, and it holds Lantau, with the airport and the new town of Tung Chung, and not the island the city is named for.
Yau Tsim Mong is Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok, the tip of the Kowloon peninsula, and one of the smallest districts on the map. It faces Central across Victoria Harbour, which is how to find it.
Sai Kung runs out into the sea to the east, a ragged country park coast with islands and beaches. It is the easiest anchor in the east, and it is a long way from the city centre.
The Islands district is Lantau and every other island outside the main harbour. It holds the airport, the Big Buddha and Disneyland, and is among the largest districts on the map while holding a small share of the people.
18: four on Hong Kong Island, five in Kowloon and nine in the New Territories (counting the Islands district).
Central and Western, Wan Chai, Eastern and Southern. The Islands district is not on Hong Kong Island: it is Lantau and the other outlying islands.
Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong. The land north of them is the New Territories.
No. The New Territories is an area, and nine of the 18 districts are in it. The districts are the administrative tier, and the four areas the game groups them by are how Hong Kong is usually described rather than a tier of government.
Macau is a separate special administrative region with its own divisions. Only Hong Kong's 18 districts are covered here.
For the rest of the region, try China Provinces, and for another city scale map, Malta Local Councils.
