The Full Form of HKSAR is Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Hong Kong (/ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/ (listen); Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: [hœ́ːŋ.kɔ̌ːŋ] (listen)), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a Cantonese speaking metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898.
The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under a principle of “one country, two systems”.. However decisions made by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress override any territorial judicial process. Furthermore, the State Council may enforce national law in the region under specific circumstances.
HKSAR
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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