Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China’s southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of the eponymous …
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China’s southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of the eponymous island, the Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories, along with several smaller islands. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world.
  • Sovereign state: China
  • British possession: 26 January 1841
  • Treaty of Nanking: 29 August 1842
  • Convention of Peking: 24 October 1860
  • New Territories lease: 9 June 1898
  • Imperial Japanese occupation: 25 December 1941 to 30 August 1945
  • Handover to China: 1 July 1997
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