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Hong Kong ( 香港 ; "Fragrant Harbour" ), officially Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China , is an autonomous territory on the southern coast of China at the Pearl River Estuary and the South China Sea . Hong Kong is known for its skyline and deep natural harbour. It has a land area of 1104 km 2 and shares its northern border with Guangdong Province of Mainland China . With around 7.2 million inhabitants of various nationalities , Hong Kong is one of the world's most dense
After the First Opium War (1839–42), Hong Kong became a British colony with the perpetual cession of Hong Kong Island , followed by Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and a 99-year lease of the New Territories from 1898. Hong Kong remained under British control for about a century until the Second World War , when Japan occupied the colony from December 1941 to August 1945. After the Surrender of Japan , the British resumed control. In the 1980s, negotiations between the United Kingdom and the China resulted in the
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a member of a country . A person may have multiple citizenships and a person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless .