Aberdeen was an initial point of contact between British sailors and local fishermen. The name of the territory, first romanised as 'He-Ong-Kong' in 1780, originally referred to a small inlet located between Aberdeen Island and the southern coast of Hong Kong Island. Hêng 1gong 2 Deg 6⁠bid 6 Heng 4⁠jing 3⁠kêu 1 Hoeng 1gong 2 Dak 6bit 6 Hang 4zing 3keoi 1 Hiong 1gong 3 Tet 6⁠piet 6 Hang 2⁠zin 4⁠ki 1 The city has the second highest life expectancy in the world, and a public transport rate exceeding 90%. Hong Kong is a highly developed territory and has a Human Development Index (HDI) of 0.952, ranking fourth in the world. Despite having the largest number of skyscrapers of any city in the world, housing in Hong Kong has been well-documented to experience a chronic persistent shortage. Although the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, severe income inequality exists among the population. Home to the second-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world, Hong Kong has the largest concentration of ultra high-net-worth individuals.

Its currency, the Hong Kong dollar, is the eighth most traded currency in the world. Hong Kong is the world's fourth-ranked global financial centre, ninth-largest exporter, and eighth-largest importer. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, the territory is now one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of ' one country, two systems'. The whole territory was transferred from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Hong Kong was briefly occupied by Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842.

With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and a special administrative region in China. Hong Kong ( US: / ˈ h ɒ ŋ k ɒ ŋ/ or UK: / h ɒ ŋ ˈ k ɒ ŋ/ Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: ( listen)), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr.

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