What the records say
- When
- 1997
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Coordinates
- 22.32° N, 114.17° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 6700000
- Area km2
- 1084
- Gaining
- China
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Hong Kong
Special administrative region of China
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth-most densely populated region in the world.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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