Hong Kong

Meaning

Proper Noun

• city in southeastern China (country), located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; formerly owned by the United Kingdom.
• island in southeastern China (country), Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong province.
• (special) administrative region China (country), which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula.
• colony United Kingdom (country), which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese special administrative region.

Origin

• From Cantonese , the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Hong Kong Island.