Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark

CN

Visit the Tin Hau Temples at Kat O and Leung Shuen Wan, important cultural landmarks and historic buildings.Explore the Hip Tin Temple, a site of great religious and cultural significance.Discover the Lai Chi Wo rural revitalization project, recognised for sustainable development in the 2020 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.

Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark in CN
Photo: Chong Fat · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationCN
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2015
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 43,900 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as Visit the Tin Hau Temples at Kat O and Leung Shuen Wan, important cultural landmarks and historic buildings.Explore the Hip Tin Temple, a site of great religious and cultural significance.Discover the Lai Chi Wo rural revitalization project, recognised for sustainable development in the 2020 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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