Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With 7.4 million residents in a 1,104-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
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