Flag Counter Forum / Hong Kong Regionals

**Posted by roddersnavy** November 16, 2017 12:48 am

Hey fellow collectors,

All 18 regions of Hong Kong are possible, However, at the moment, you will see that most of your hits will be Unknown. I have corrected most of the 10 million unknown ips. After the next few Sunday updates, more regions will become easier!

Good Luck

**Posted by benfica69** November 16, 2017 7:52 am

Thank you very much

**Posted by XYZ4** January 5, 2018 11:39 pm

Hi. How are you getting regional data for countries?

I initially thought you were going by the ISO 3166-2 standard but seeing as Hong Kong doesn't have regions based off that standard I'm assuming you're just grabbing regions from maxmind that uses geoname_id service?

I'm just interested!

I'll take a private message too if you don't want to discuss it here.

Edit: I can't find any codes here or on wikipedia

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:HK

But I do notice it here
http://www.geonames.org/HK/administrative-division-hong-kong.html

I'm wondering if geonames just made their own iso codes for simplicity of using their service.

Last edited by XYZ4 (January 5, 2018 11:56 pm)

**Posted by holland25** January 6, 2018 7:11 am

No, the codes GeoNames use are official. Just because Wiki doesn't list them, doesn't mean they don't exist

**Posted by XYZ4** January 6, 2018 8:46 pm

I know wikipedia isn't the best place for current information but I did provide the link to the official ISO database which is also lacking HK ISO 3166-2 codes. This is specific to HK/XK themselves having ISO codes on geonames but not the official ISO database. Granted I don't know if ISO standard keeps their online database up to date. That being said this isn't an issue or anything, just something that I was curious about.

**Posted by holland25** January 6, 2018 9:06 pm

Yep. I did some research and it seems they have been discontinued. The Remark part 2 section was updated on Nov 23, 2017 and it seems they removed the codes

Last edited by holland25 (January 6, 2018 9:06 pm)

**Posted by tded168** February 14, 2018 8:38 am

Hi, thanks

**Posted by Yolkin** February 18, 2018 7:31 am

holland25 wrote:
Yep. I did some research and it seems they have been discontinued. The Remark part 2 section was updated on Nov 23, 2017 and it seems they removed the codes

All regions of Hong Kong are accessible:

http://s04.flagcounter.com/more/epU

**Posted by holland25** February 18, 2018 7:41 am

Yes, at the moment. They won't be when their codes stop working

**Posted by Kristenstone** April 15, 2019 5:59 am

Thanks.