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HK (other)
HK is a common abbreviation for Hong Kong, a former British crown colony and current special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. HK may also refer to: Businesses and organisations * ''HK Magazine'', a Hong Kong-based English-language weekly * HKScan, formerly ''Helsingin Kauppiaat'', a Finnish meat producer * Handel og Kontor I Norge, the Union of Employees in Commerce and Offices in Norway * Handels- og Kontorfunktionærernes Forbund i Danmark, the National Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees in Denmark * Handknattleiksfélag Kópavogs, an Icelandic sports club * Harman Kardon, a manufacturer of home and car audio equipment * Heckler & Koch, a German firearms company * Four Star Aviation (IATA airline designator) * HKExpress, a low-cost carrier based in Hong Kong owned by Cathay Pacific In science and technology * Horsepower#Metric horsepower, Metric horsepower, a measure of power (1 hk = 0.9863 hp (UK, US) = 0.7355 kW) * Hefnerkerze, an old photometr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again 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... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
