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It consists of Hong Kong Island, originally ceded by China to Great Britain in 1842, the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters (Ngong Shuen) Island (now joined to the mainland), ceded in 1860, and the New Territories, which include the mainland area lying largely to the north, together with 230 large and small offshore islands ...

Hong Kong Island comprises the following suburbs/localities of Hong Kong : Aberdeen. Admiralty. Ap Lei Chau. Big Wave Bay. Braemar Hill. Causeway Bay. Central/Chung Wan. Chai Wan. Chung Hom Kok. Cyberport.

1842 - China cedes Hong Kong island to Britain after the First Opium War. Over the decades, thousands of Chinese migrants fleeing domestic upheavals settle in the colony.

The history of Hong Kong, visualized. The ‘special status’ of this powerful global city is the result of two centuries of growth, turmoil, and change. Hong Kong has been wracked by a recent ...

History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong in the Chinese Empire. Inhabited since the Stone Age, the region of Hong Kong was incorporated into Imperial China around the 2nd century ... Hong Kong as a British Colony. One Country, Two Systems. Hong Kong & Democracy.

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese control after a century and a half of British colonial rule. The handover was meant to establish a “one country, two systems ...

Hong Kong Island became a remote part of the Chinese Empire during the rule of the first Ts’in/Qin emperors. It remained part of various Chinese dynasties for the next 2,000 years. c.1235-1279. A large number of Chinese refugees settled in the Hong Kong area, after they were driven from their homes during the Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty.

Located near mouth of the Pearl River the location of Hong Kong Island has always been attractive and settlements have existed on the island since Neolithic times. But it isn't until the beginning of the British Colonial period that the island entered rapid development, which continues to this day.