Hong Kong Definition

hŏngkŏng, -kŏng, hôngkông, -kông
pronoun

A coastal administrative region in south-east China, formerly a British colony, currently a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

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One of the island in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
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Origin of Hong Kong

  • From Cantonese 香港 (Hēunggóng).

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Hong Kong Sentence Examples

  • Three ports in the province have been ceded or leased to foreign powers - Macao to Portugal, Hong-Kong (with Kowloon) to Great Britain, and Kwangchow to France.

  • During the next few years there was such a steady influx of Chinese free immigrants that in the spring of 1881 the Hawaiian government sent a despatch to the governor of Hong Kong to stop this invasion.

  • Again, in April 1883, it was suddenly renewed, and within twenty days five steamers arrived from Hong Kong bringing 2253 Chinese passengers, followed the next month by 1100 more, with the news that several thousand more were ready to embark.

  • A considerable trade is also done through Hong-Kong and other Far Eastern ports.

  • Pere Desgodins in 1899 issued from Hong-Kong a large Tibeto-LatinFrench dictionary, Dictionnaire thibetain-latin francais.

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Words Starting With

HHOHON

Words Ending With

GNGONG

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Hong Kong

Words Starting With H and Ending With G

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With H9 Letter Words Ending With G