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1915 map of the Hong Kong region with Kowloon Walled City listed as "Chinese Town" at the upper right-hand corner The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory of 1898 handed additional parts of Hong Kong (the New Territories ) to Britain for 99 years, but excluded the walled city, which at the time had a population of roughly 700.
The anti-Hong Kong Express Rail Link movement protested at the proposed Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link; the link was nevertheless completed in 2018. The Hong Kong 818 incident , inhibited by the visit of Li Keqiang , caused controversy regarding civil rights violations.
The war was concluded by the Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1842, the first of the Unequal treaties between China and Western powers. [18] The treaty ceded the Hong Kong Island and surrounding smaller islands to Britain, and established five cities as treaty ports open to Western traders: Shanghai, Canton, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Xiamen (Amoy). [19]
A 1996 draft PRC law banned People's Liberation Army–run businesses [broken anchor] in Hong Kong, but loopholes allow them to operate while the profits are ploughed back into the military. [17] There are many PLA-run corporations in Hong Kong. The PLA also have sizeable land holdings in Hong Kong worth billions of dollars. [17]
Module:Location map/data/Hong Kong is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Hong Kong. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
It shows that Hong Kong used to be a part of Bao'an (Xin'an or Po'On) County in ancient China. Map of Hong Kong and Macau, circa 1760. From 1661 to 1669, the territory was affected by the Great Clearance, ordered by the Qing dynasty's Kangxi Emperor, which required the evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong.
The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region [a] is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea.Referred to as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area in official documents, the region is one of the most densely populated and urbanized regions in the world, and is considered a megacity by numerous scholars. [2]
Wan Chai District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. Of the four on Hong Kong Island, it is north-central, and had 166,695 residents in 2021, an increase from 152,608 residents in 2011. The district has the second-highest educationally qualified residents with the highest-bracket incomes, the second-lowest population and the third-oldest ...