A contribution to the blog from Eric. All of these are Guinness Book of World Records that happened or are located on Hong Kong:
1.) The World’s Most Expensive Toilet
HK$38Million dollar, solid gold toilet at Hang Fung Jewlers
2.) The World’s Most Densely Populated Island
Ap Lei Chau Island, one of many islands that makes up great Hong Kong is 1.3 square kilometers and contains 80,000 people.
3.) The World’s Longest Suspension and Rail Bridge
The Tsing Ma Bridge opened in 1997 is 1,377 meters in length
4.) The World’s Highest Per-capita Ownership of Mercedes Benz and Rolls Royce Vehicles.
A local claim to fame
5.) The World’s Largest and Most Expensive Airline Terminal
It truly is magnificent – I love the airport here, it’s amazingly huge and efficient. The building is 1.3km long and covers 550,00 sq. meters taking the titles of the world’s largest single airport building. The baggage hall alone is as big as New York’s Yankee Stadium (it could hold five Boeing 747’s parked wing tip to wing tip). It has a terminal capacity to accommodate 45 million passengers a year arriving on 460 flights every day. The price tag was US$20 Billion making it the most expensive airport ever built
6.) The World’s Largest Per-capita Consumption of Cognac
100ml, per person, per year
7.) The World’s Longest Criminal Trial
398 days in 1993-1994 for the trial of fourteen South Vietnamese boat people eventually acquitted of murdering 24 North Vietnamese boat people at the Shek Kong Detention Center for Vietnamese migrants
8.) The Largest Synchronized Hula-Hoop Spin
2004 – 2,308 local students
9.) The World’s Largest Neon Advertising Sign
You’ll soon understand Hong Kong’s love of Neon – the sign was the length of a football field and included 800,000 bulbs covering 5,033 sq. meters
10.) World’s Largest Television Display
At the Sha Tin racecourse (horse racing is one of Hong Kong’s age old national pastimes). 70.4m x 8 m
11.) The World’s Smallest Fire Engines
Because of Hong Kong’s narrow, winding footpaths and roads, the fire engines in many parts of the city look like small go-carts mini-trucks
12.) The World’s Largest industrial Building
Modern terminal’s container freight station in Kwai Chung is the largest industrial building in the world.
13.) The World’s Highest Per-capita Horserace Betting Turnover
More money is gambled at one HK racecourse in one night than in the whole of United Kingdom in one year.
14.) The World’s Longest Escalator System
You’ll definitely see this, we live very close to it. Around 50,000 commuters ride this escalator to and from work every day. Completed in 1993, the escalator runs for 800 meters.
15.) the World’s Largest Country Line Dance
Yep - in Hong Kong. Dancing to The Tractor’s “Baby Likes to Rock It”, for 7 minutes and 40 seconds, a total of 12,168 people took part
16.) The World’s Highest Ratio of Land Conserved for Parks
40% of Hong Kong territory is set aside for country parks.
17.) The World’s Largest Piece of Peeled Human Skin
16 year old Barry Kwok Tak-ming peeled this off his chest after a sunburn. It measures 23 x 11 centimeters and amazingly is shaped like China.
18.) The World’s Largest Outdoor Sitting Buddha
You’ll definitely see this. Often debated about whether it IS the largest – we’re sticking with the book on this one.
19.) The World’s Most Expensive Real Estate
Just recently, the penthouse of a new prestigious apartment building went for $168 Million (or a record breaking $31,384 per square foot).
20.) The World’s Largest Chinese Dumpling
In 1997 – it weighed in at 480kg.
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