Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a city and a special administrative region in China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre territory…
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a city and a special administrative region in China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories 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