British Crown colony (later dependent territory) on the southern China coast, ceded/leased in stages following the First and Second Opium Wars and the 1898 New Territories lease; a major global trade and financial entrepot for over 150 years.
Handed over to the People's Republic of China on 30 June 1997 (expiry of the 99-year New Territories lease), becoming the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under 'one country, two systems.'
The atlas holds 4 border frames for British Hong Kong — the shape you scrub through changes in 1841 · 1905 · 1934 · 1945.
The standard scholarly history of British Hong Kong from 1841 to the 1997 handover.