Domicile of HK-registered foreign companies

This page ranks the domicile of overseas companies which are registered as having a place of business in HK and are not dissolved. All companies with a primary or secondary listing on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd are required to be registered (because a share registration office constitutes a place of business), but most registered companies are not listed.

Note: data on domicile are often unknown after 16-Nov-2020, when we started our last complete scan of the registry. On 22-Nov-2020, the registry implemented a new captcha system, preventing further data collection. The limited data available on data.gov.hk (comprising delayed weekly updates) only cover new registrations and name-changes, without stating domicile.

	Domicile	Companies	Share %
1	British Virgin Islands	8,445	51.96
2	Cayman Islands	3,001	18.47
3	Marshall Islands	674	4.15
4	Bermuda	659	4.05
5	China (People's Republic)	656	4.04
6	United States of America	331	2.04
7	Singapore	324	1.99
8	Panama	298	1.83
9	Liberia	187	1.15
10	England & Wales	170	1.05
11	Seychelles	168	1.03
12	Samoa	157	0.97
13	Japan	139	0.86
14	United Kingdom	80	0.49
15	Taiwan	78	0.48
16	Australia	76	0.47
17	South Korea	56	0.34
18	Canada	44	0.27
19	India	43	0.26
20		42	0.26
21	Bahamas	35	0.22
22	Switzerland	35	0.22
23	Netherlands	34	0.21
24	France	33	0.20
25	Luxembourg	33	0.20
26	Germany	30	0.18
27	Macau	30	0.18
28	Italy	29	0.18
29	Mauritius	29	0.18
30	Anguilla	26	0.16
31	Malaysia	22	0.14
32	Ireland	19	0.12
33	Belgium	18	0.11
34	Jersey	15	0.09
35	United Arab Emirates	15	0.09
36	Vanuatu	15	0.09
37	Denmark	14	0.09
38	Isle of Man	14	0.09
39	Malta	13	0.08
40	Philippines	13	0.08
41	Thailand	13	0.08
42	Belize	12	0.07
43	Norway	12	0.07
44	Spain	12	0.07
45	Barbados	9	0.06
46	Cook Islands	9	0.06
47	Cyprus	8	0.05
48	Sweden	8	0.05
49	Turks & Caicos Islands	8	0.05
50	Indonesia	7	0.04
51	Austria	5	0.03
52	Hungary	5	0.03
53	New Zealand	5	0.03
54	Scotland	5	0.03
55	Curacao	4	0.02
56	Finland	4	0.02
57	Guernsey	4	0.02
58	Israel	4	0.02
59	Saint Vincent & the Grenadines	4	0.02
60	Bahrain	3	0.02
61	Liechtenstein	3	0.02
62	Russia	3	0.02
63	Sri Lanka	3	0.02
64	St Kitts & Nevis	3	0.02
65	Brunei	2	0.01
66	Cambodia	2	0.01
67	Gibraltar	2	0.01
68	Myanmar	2	0.01
69	Pakistan	2	0.01
70	Qatar	2	0.01
71	South Africa	2	0.01
72	Vietnam	2	0.01
73	Bangladesh	1	0.01
74	Benin	1	0.01
75	California, USA	1	0.01
76	Chile	1	0.01
77	Delaware, USA	1	0.01
78	Dominica	1	0.01
79	Estonia	1	0.01
80	Ethiopia	1	0.01
81	Fiji	1	0.01
82	Greece	1	0.01
83	Jordan	1	0.01
84	Kazakhstan	1	0.01
85	Kenya	1	0.01
86	Mexico	1	0.01
87	Micronesia	1	0.01
88	Mongolia	1	0.01
89	Nepal	1	0.01
90	Netherlands Antilles	1	0.01
91	Nevada,USA	1	0.01
92	New York, USA	1	0.01
93	Poland	1	0.01
94	Turkey	1	0.01
95	U.S. Virgin Islands	1	0.01
96	Uruguay	1	0.01
97	Venezuela	1	0.01
	Total companies	16,252	100.00

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