Abstract The hyperbolic random geometric graph was introduced by Krioukov et al. ( Phys. Rev. E 82 , 2010). Among many equivalent models for the space, we study d -dimensional Poincaré ball $d\ge 2$ ), with a general connectivity radius. While phase transitions are known expectation asymptotics of certain subgraph counts, very little is about second-order results. Two distinguishing characteris...