hong kong

     

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港; pinyin:Xiānggǎng; Cantonese: Heunggong), officially the Hong Kong Special Aministrative Region [pronunciation], is one of two special administrative regions of People's Republic of China, the other being Macau. The territory lies on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south. Beginning as a trading port in the 19th century, Hong Kong has developed into one of the world's leading financial centres.

Trivia about hong kong

  • In 1898 Britain leased the New Territories from China, adding to the area of this dependency
  • The Hollywood Road area in this crown colony is the place to go for antiques and art
  • In Mandarin this city's name is Hsiang-Kang
  • In 1997 this British crown colony will become a special administrative region of China
  • On June 4, 1999 thousands gathered in this former British Asian colony for the 10th anniv. of Tiananmen Square
  • This former crown colony is partly on the southeast coast of China & partly on over 200 islands
  • Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor"
  • Victoria Peak,Kai Tak Airport,Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel
  • It's the territory where the ceremony seen here took place on the night of June 30 - July 1, 1997
  • (Hi, I'm Jodi Applegate) On assignment for NBC, I was in this city when China took control on July 1, 1997
  • When the U.K.'s 99-year lease on this crown colony ended, China retook control on July 1, 1997
  • Most coverage of this territory's return to China left out its desperate plea to Jackie Chan for help
  • The Blue Line subway here can take you from Fortress Hill to Sai Wan Ho
  • Being a free port makes Kowloon, in this Crown Colony, a busy place
  • Chris Patten, governor of this British colony, left it on July 1, 1997 on the royal yacht Britannia
  • The Hang Seng Index is a measure of this city's stock exchange
  • The tallest building outside North America is in this former crown colony
  • One of the last British possessions to be decolonized; it happened in 1997
  • I bought a lot of junk in this former Crown Colony, but I wanted the "junk" seen here
  • Tracking my stocks on the Hang Seng index of this former Crown colony's stock exchange
  • Disney has announced plans to build a theme park in this former crown colony on China's southern coast
  • With films like "A Better Tomorrow", John Woo brought attention to the cinema of this place where he grew up
  • The 1997 book "The Last Governor" was about "Chris Patten and the Handover of" this Asian colony
  • The current flag of this former British Crown colony is seen here
  • Buy clothes, get your fortune told or hear Cantonese opera singers at this Asian area's Temple Street Market
  • Macau is one of 2 special administrative regions of China; this, Chinese-controlled since 1997, is the other
  • The beach scene at Repulse Bay is one of the attractions in this south coast "Gateway to China"
  • What has 4 thumbs & is going to this rhyming region of China with nearly 16,000 people per square mile? Us!
  • As a crown colony it flew the Union Jack; now it has a new flag with a white flower on a red field
  • With help from feng shui, Norman Foster reinvented the office tower with a 1980s building in this then-colony
  • The Treaty of Nanking ceded this island & smaller adjacent ones to the British, who remained until 1997
  • Typhoon Ruby hit this British colony on Sept. 5, 1964, killing more than 700 people
  • The appropriately named Li Ka-shing is the richest man from this island territory that changed hands in 1997
  • Its former capital was Victoria