Hong Kong

Hong Kong is filed here as a country of its own, and the reason is a filing rule rather than a position: in this atlas the country field names the administration under whose law a place is governed — the jurisdiction that writes the law, keeps the register of rights and issues the permits. Hong Kong has its own Land Registry, its own permits and its own Basic Law, and the same rule puts Taiwan and Macau in the same position. Until 27 October 2026 the atlas filed Taiwan by administration and Hong Kong by sovereignty, which are two different tests; a consumer register pointed out that nineteen of its records had quietly disagreed with us about this for as long as they existed. The atlas takes no position on sovereignty and this entry implies none.