Hong Kong Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city and special administrative region of China
About Hong Kong
"Hong Kong" translates from Cantonese as "fragrant harbour". Although part of China, Hong Kong operates as aSpecial Administrative Regionunder the slogan "One Country, Two Systems", maintaining most laws and government structures from colonial times. Visa requirements, laws, currency, culture and language have a heritage from the time of British rule, so for most tourists Hong Kong feels like a different country. However, some freedoms were curtailed when the National Security Law was imposed in 2020. The area of Hong Kong was incorporated into China during the Qin Dynasty in 214BC, and largely remained under Chinese rule until it became a British colony in January 1841, as a result of the defeat of the Qing in the First Opium War. After the defeat of China in the Second Opium War, the Kow
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