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Hong Kong
China, an East Asian country is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It has a vast cultural history of more than five thousand years and an outstanding natural beauty. On the other hand, this country has remained a comparatively isolated and secluded one, and being a land of mystery, this country is not known to the western half of the world. However, China is rapidly developing and has grown in the phase of modernization, with an immense speed and is also welcoming the outer world to interact and do business with them.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China, the other being Macau. It is commonly known as Hong Kong, which is often written Hongkong in older English-language texts. The Hong Kong Government officially changed the name of Hongkong to Hong Kong on 3 September 1926. According to the 2005 census, population was 2005 7,041,000, and total area is 1,104 square kilometers.
Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, facing the South China Sea in the south, and bordering Guangdong Province in the north. Hong Kong has one of the world's most liberal economies and is a major international centre of finance and trade. Hong Kong is China's richest region in terms of GDP per capita and gross metropolitan product figures.
Hong Kong was a British colony from 1842, until its sovereignty was transferred to the PRC in 1997. It is governed as a special administrative region under the Basic Law of Hong Kong. Under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the PRC has promised that Hong Kong will have a relatively high degree of autonomy until at least 2047, fifty years after the transfer of sovereignty.
Hong Kong is well known as having one of the highest population densities in the world. Its official population density is third highest, behind Monaco and Macau, however only approximately 25 percent of Hong Kong's land mass is densely populated. As it is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of China one of the most visited places amongst the most die-hard travelers the world over.
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