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Coat of Arms | |
Motto | Dieu et mon Droit (French) "God and my Right" |
Anthem | "Hong Kong" |
Royal Anthem | "God Save the Queen" |
Capital | Victoria |
Largest City | Kowloon |
Official Languages | English Chinese (Cantonese) |
Government | Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General | Sir Charles Kuen Kao GBM KBE FRS FREng |
Prime Minister | Carrie Yuet-ngor Lam |
Legislature | National Assembly |
Upper House | Senate |
Lower House | House of Representatives |
Independence | from the United Kingdom |
Treaty of Nanking | 29 August 1842 |
Second Convention of Peking | 9 June 1898 |
Statute of Westminster | 11 December 1931 |
Constitution Act | 8 May 1981 |
Hong Kong Act | 1 October 1993 |
Currency | Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) |
Hong Kong is a country on the southeastern coast of Asia at the Pearl River Delta. It is one of the seventeen British Commonwealth Realms.