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China: Neon signs on Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1987)

China: Neon signs on Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1987)

China: Neon signs on Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1987).

Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, Hong Kong has become one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. It is the world's tenth-largest exporter and ninth-largest importer.

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.

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