Synopsis
Dan Snow views Hong Kong from the sky and witnesses how the city's growth is slowly connecting it to mainland China.
- Programme: World's Busiest Cities
- Series: 1
- Episode: Hong Kong
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2017
- Geography | Urban environments | Settlement in urban areas | Settlement types
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