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Hong Kong · AsiaOSM land-use zones

Hong Kong

Harbour, hills, and an MTR that pays for itself with the land on top of the stations.

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Existing transit 87 lines · 3230 stops · Hong Kong Transport Department
Hong Kong: the 87 transit lines and 1605 stations the pack starts with, over the metro's water and major roadsABERDEEN - CHEUNG SHA WAN (KOM TSUN STREET)ABERDEEN (SHEK PAI WAN) - HOI LAI ESTATEANDERSON (ONYU ROAD) PUBLIC TRANSPORT TERMINUS - YAU TONG (CIRCULAR)AP LEI CHAU ESTATE - CENTRAL (FERRY PIERS)CENTRAL (EXCHANGE SQUARE) - STANLEY MARKETCENTRAL (MACAO FERRY) - NGAU TAU KOKCHAI WAN (EAST) - WU KAI SHA STATIONCHI FU FA YUEN - ADMIRALTY (CIRCULAR)CHI FU FA YUEN - ADMIRALTY (CIRCULAR)CHOI HUNG - KENNEDY TOWN (BELCHER BAY)CHOI WAN - SIU SAI WAN (ISLAND RESORT)CHUK YUEN ESTATE - POKFIELD RDCYBERPORT - SO UK ESTATECYBERPORT - STANLEY MARKETDIAMOND HILL STATION - AP LEI CHAU LEE LOK STEXHIBITION CENTRE STATION - BRAEMAR HILL (CIRCULAR)HANG HAU (NORTH) (TSEUNG KWAN O HOSPITAL) - MEI FOOHING WAH ESTATE - LAI TAK TSUENHUNG SHUI KIU (HUNG FUK ESTATE) - MONG KOK (PARK AVENUE)KAI YIP - BRAEMAR HILLKAM YING COURT - HUNG HOM STATIONKENNEDY TOWN - SHAM SHUI PO (PAK TIN ESTATE)KOWLOON BAY - WAH KWAIKOWLOON CITY FERRY - KWAI CHUNG (LAI YIU ESTATE)KOWLOON STATION - MONG KOK (LUEN WAN STREET) (CIRCULAR)KWAI SHING (EAST) - PING TINKWUN TONG (YUE MAN SQUARE) - KENNEDY TOWNLAI CHI KOK - SOUTH HORIZONSLAM TIN (NORTH) - SKYCITYLOHAS PARK STATION - TSUEN WAN WEST STATIONLOK WAH - MEI FOOLONG PING ESTATE - TSING YI STATIONMUI WO FERRY PIER - NGONG PINGMUI WO FERRY PIER - TAI OMUI WO FERRY PIER - TAI O (VIA MUI WO OLD TOWN)MUI WO FERRY PIER - TUNG CHUNG STATION BUS TERMINUSMUI WO FERRY PIER - TUNG CHUNG STATION BUS TERMINUS (VIA NORTH LANTAU HOSPITAL)NORTH POINT FERRY PIER - KENNEDY TOWNON TAI (WEST) (WO TAI HOUSE) - SHAU KEI WANPO TAT - ISLAND HARBOURVIEWPO TAT - TSIM SHA TSUI EASTSAU MAU PING (CENTRAL) - STAR FERRYSHA TIN CENTRAL - MA ON SHAN (VILLA ATHENA) (CIRCULAR)SHEK MUN - WAN TAU TONG (SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE)SHEUNG SHUI - YUEN LONG (FUNG CHEUNG ROAD)SHEUNG SHUI (CHING HO) - LONG PING ESTATESHUN LEE - CENTRAL (MACAO FERRY)SHUN TIN - MONG KOK (CIRCULAR)SIU HONG STATION (SOUTH) - LEI YUE MUN ESTATESIU SAI WAN (ISLAND RESORT) - BRAEMAR HILL (CIRCULAR)SIU SAI WAN (ISLAND RESORT) - HAPPY VALLEY (UPPER)SIU SAI WAN (ISLAND RESORT) - NORTH POINT FERRY PIERSIU SAI WAN ESTATE - TIU KENG LENG STATIONSOUTH HORIZONS - SHAU KEI WANSTANLEY VILLAGE - CENTRAL (EXCHANGE SQUARE)SUN TIN WAI - ISLAND HARBOURVIEWTAI KOK TSUI (ISLAND HARBOURVIEW) - SKYCITYTAI PO (TAI WO) - CHEUNG SHA WANTSING YI (CHEUNG CHING ESTATE) - KOWLOON CITY FERRYTSING YI (CHEUNG HANG ESTATE) - LAM TIN STATIONTSING YI (CHEUNG HONG ESTATE) - SHUN LEETSUEN WAN (BELVEDERE GARDEN) - LAGUNA CITYTSUEN WAN (NINA TOWER) - KWUN TONG FERRYTSUI LAM - KOWLOON STATIONTSZ WAN SHAN (CENTRAL) - QUARRY BAYTUEN MUN (CHI LOK FA YUEN) - CAUSEWAY BAY (MORETON TERRACE)TUEN MUN (HOI WING ROAD) - LAI KING (NORTH)TUEN MUN CENTRAL - MONG KOK (PARK AVENUE)TUNG CHUNG STATION BUS TERMINUS - TAI OTUNG CHUNG TAT TUNG ROAD BUS TERMINUS - NGONG PINGWAH FU (CENTRAL) - NORTH POINT FERRYWAH FU (NORTH) - EXHIBITION CENTRE STATIONWONG NAI TAU - MEI FOOWONG TAI SIN - SIU SAI WAN (ISLAND RESORT)YAU TONG - CHEUNG SHA WAN (KOM TSUN STREET)YIU ON - TSIM SHA TSUI EAST (MODY ROAD)YUEN LONG (WEST) - TAI PO MARKET STATIONYUEN LONG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - YUEN LONG PARK (CIRCULAR)CENTRAL (GARDEN ROAD) - THE PEAKKENNEDY TOWN - HAPPY VALLEY ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)NORTH POINT - SHEK TONG TSUI ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)SHAU KEI WAN - HAPPY VALLEY ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)SHAU KEI WAN - KENNEDY TOWN ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)SHAU KEI WAN - WESTERN MARKET ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)SHEK TONG TSUI - CAUSEWAY BAY ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)10 km
  • Local bus
  • CENTRAL (GARDEN ROAD) - THE PEAK
  • KENNEDY TOWN - HAPPY VALLEY ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)
  • NORTH POINT - SHEK TONG TSUI ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)
  • SHAU KEI WAN - HAPPY VALLEY ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)
  • SHAU KEI WAN - KENNEDY TOWN ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)
  • SHAU KEI WAN - WESTERN MARKET ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)
  • SHEK TONG TSUI - CAUSEWAY BAY ($2 FOR JOYYOU CARD HOLDER AGED 60 TO 64)

Bus, Streetcar, Light rail — lines, stops and colours from the operating agency's published GTFS. Water and roads: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Overpass extract of the playable core. 4,151,210 residents in 117 zones, pack 2020.

#Facts, figures, history

Hong Kong, as the pack records it.

Population by decade, a sourced metro series scaled to the 2020 pack.
YearPopulation
1921343,841
1931462,260
1950925,015
19511,138,500
19601,436,347
19611,720,757
19701,868,812
19712,165,147
19802,473,124
19812,850,870
19903,164,438
19913,163,600
20003,665,010
20013,692,865
20103,863,872
20113,889,380
20204,151,209
20214,077,189

The pack's sourced population series runs from 343,841 residents in 1921 to 4,077,189 in 2021.

The recorded peak is 4,151,209 in 2020.

The zones cover 500 km², about 8,309 residents per km², with 1,909,555 jobs at the workplace.

The pack seeds 7 playable rail/BRT/ferry lines, 80 bus lines drawn on the map.

Difficulty is Forgiving.

✓What winning here takes

Six ways to win Hong Kong, each set by Hong Kong.

There is no score to beat. Each condition is computed from the metro as you inherit it, with the engine's own arithmetic; these are the bars the game will set on day one in Hong Kong, in 2025. The blue tick is where the city stands today; the red band is where it has to get to. The run continues after you win.

  1. Transit Capitalheld for a year

    1.5%today · published share; the game uses day one
    1.5%needed · hold the inherited share, for a year

    The region's existing system carries about 1.5% of all trips. The operating rail is in the model; in the game the bar is what that system carries on day one, held for a year.

  2. Roads Unclogged

    0%today · relief before you build
    10%needed · cut in peak congestion

    Against what the region would have without your network, not against the day you started — the region grows, and holding congestion flat through growth is the harder achievement.

  3. Carbon Cut

    0ttoday · net tonnes avoided today
    83,024tneeded · net tonnes of CO₂ a year

    Scaled to this metro's 4,151,210 residents at 0.02 tonnes each — roughly what moving a few percent of the region's driving onto rail saves, after the trains are charged for their own power.

  4. Held the Lineheld for a year

    0%today · on time, before a train runs
    80%needed · on time · 65% satisfied · a year in surplus

    All three at once. The cheapest route to a surplus is cutting the service that produces the other two, so this is the condition that cannot be bought.

  5. Within Reach

    0%today · within a walk of your stops
    10%needed · of the metro within a kilometre of a stop

    The operating rail is already in the model, so coverage does not start at nothing. The bar is a tenth of the metro within a walk, or 60% more than you inherit, whichever is higher.

  6. Ten Minutes Back

    0%today · cut so far
    10%needed · off the average regional commute

    Measured on every resident, including the people who never board a train — a network that takes cars off the road shortens the drive for everyone left on it. The day-one average is the model’s first solve.

Carbon Cut's bar is 0.02 net tonnes a year for each resident, floored at 20,000. Transit Capital, coverage and the commute are taken from the network you inherit: where the pack seeds operating rail, from that system's first solve; where it does not, Transit Capital uses the model's default present-day share (floored at 1% and capped at 6%) and coverage starts from nothing. The gauges' Transit Capital tick is that default either way.

What you are given

What you are given

Every one of Hong Kong's 117 zones arrives with derived numbers attached: resident population from OSM land-use shares of a sourced 2020 metro series, jobs allocated from the land-use mix, and a gravity-model home-to-work matrix. These are not US Census tracts and not LODES commute pairs — the pack says so on its provenance string.

Work trips are a gravity model from those land-use shares, labelled DERIVED, not a census commuting matrix. The streets, water and operating lines are still observed: OpenStreetMap and the agency's published GTFS.

Hong Kong's operating rail — 87 lines, 3230 stops — is seeded into the playable network from the agency's published GTFS: the lines run, they cost money to operate, and riders board them. Local bus stays decoration. A 1920 start inherits the dated streetcar, elevated and interurban map from OpenHistoricalMap Overpass, not today's GTFS with the year filed off.

What makes it hard

What makes Hong Kong hard

Forgiving. Dense, centred, and already used to transit — the model has something to work with on day one. You are inheriting a system, which means you inherit its shape and its operating cost as well as its riders.

And the decade changes the problem, not the vehicle list. Hong Kong in 1960 is a different city from Hong Kong in 2025: the pack's sourced population series (UN World Urbanization Prospects and national census) is scaled onto the 2020 zone map, so the rivers and the rail yards stay where they are. The inherited map for that decade is the archival alignment that was open then — OpenHistoricalMap Overpass — not a modern line that had not been built.

Hong Kong is in the full edition. The free game rotates through thirteen metros so you can check the model on a city you know before taking anyone's word about the other sixty-six. The full edition, $25 once, opens all seventy-nine. Buy Mac or Windows direct and an extra 30% — Valve's cut on Steam — goes to pro-urban organisations.

Play Hong Kong Full edition

Sources

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