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Hong Kong  

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  • Hong Kong is located on the south China coast near the Pearl River Delta, a region of China with a long history of foreign trade. Hong Kong was a British colony from 1842 until 1997 and is now a special administrative region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) with an estimated 2007 population of 6.9 million people. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Hong Kong]

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