British Hong Kong (hkg)

British Hong Kong

British Hong Kong ranks 132nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Wrocław, Denver, and Hyōgo Prefecture. Memorable people born in British Hong Kong include Sammo Hung, Stephen Chow, and Stanley Ho. Memorable people who died in British Hong Kong include Bruce Lee, Lin Yutang, and Yuen Siu-tien. British Hong Kong has been the birth place of many actors and film directors and the death place of many actors and writers. British Hong Kong is located in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong was a British colony and later a British Dependent Territory from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841, during the First Opium War between the British and the Qing dynasty. The Qing had wanted to enforce its prohibition of opium importation within the dynasty that was being exported mostly from British India and was causing widespread addiction among the populace. Read more on Wikipedia