Hong Kong

LC control no.	n 81001722
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Hong Kong *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Xianggang Xiangjiang Hsiang-kang Hongkong Honkon Hsiang-chiang Khonkong Xiang gang Gonkong
See also	Hong Kong (China) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1842
Ending date	1997-06-30
Associated country	Great Britain
Special note	Includes the old catalog headings: Hongkong and Hong Kong (Hong Kong under Japanese occupation, 1941-1945) SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Hong Kong (China).
Found in	Hsiang-kang chan ling ti tsung tu pu Hua min tai piao hui. Kuan chʻü fa ling tʻien pao hsü chih, 1978? (x-ref.) t.p. (Hsiang-kang chan ling ti tsung tu pu) Statesman's yrbk., 1978-1979 (Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese from 12/25/41 to 8/30/45) Ivanov, P.M. Gonkong, 1990. BGN Foreign Names Committee decision, June 30, 1997 (former name: Hong Kong; PCLD; new name: Hong Kong [short form] Special Administrative Region [conventional]; Xianggang [short form] Tebie Xingzhengqu [Chinese]: PCLS, 22°15ʹN 114°10ʹE) U.S. Dept. of State. Office of the Geographer and Global Issues. Guidance bulletin, no. 18, July 1, 1997 (background: United Kingdom, on Dec. 19, 1984, signed agreement with China to return Hong Kong on July 1, 1997; Hong Kong reverted to Chinese control at midnight, June 30, 1997) Hsiang-kang hsiao shuo ching hsüan, 1992: t.p. verso (Xiang gang [in rom.]) Wikipedia, April 24, 2019 (Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after Qing China 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 entire territory was transferred to China in 1997)
Geographic area code	a-cc-hk
Invalid LCCN	n 79065294 sh 85061870