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British Hong Kong. Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841, during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing ...
1 day ago · Hong Kong, special administrative region of China, located to the east of the Pearl River estuary on the south coast of China. Hong Kong was a British possession for decades until it rejoined China in 1997. It is a vibrant cultural and financial center of Chinese society.
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In 1984, the governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China (PRC) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon (south of Boundary Street) ceded under the Convention of Peking (1860), was transferred to the PRC on 1 July 1997, maintaining the current land boundary primarily running across the Sham Chun River, however the Hong Kong Basic Law ...
4 days ago · Great Britain acquired Hong Kong Island from China in 1842, when the Treaty of Nanjing was signed at the end of the First Opium War (1839–42). Unsatisfied with incomplete control of the harbour, the British forced China to cede the Kowloon Peninsula south of what is now Boundary Street and Stonecutters (Ngong Shuen) Island (now joined to the mainland) less than 20 years later, after the Second Opium War (1856–60).
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Hong Kong [e] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [f] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty ...
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Hong Kong, 1898. This map shows that the British had already acquired Hong Kong Island in 1842 and the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860. However it needed far more room for water, housing, supplies and most importantly of all to be able to defend it from an increasingly chaotic mainland (The Boxer Rebellion would take place the following year for ...
