Hong Kong

Hong Kong (香港) is a major port in the south of China and one of the world's leading financial centres, renowned for its many skyscrapers, natural setting and cosmopolitanism.

The area known as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was gradually ceded to Britain in a series of humiliating treaties following China's defeat in several wars - the first to fall into British hands was Hong Kong Island in 1842. In the first half of the 20th century, Hong Kong was transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a major trading post of the British Empire. Hong Kong recovered quickly from Japanese invasion and occupation during the Second World War, and its population increased dramatically as a result of an influx of migrants and refugees from Mainland China. In the Post War era Hong Kong rapidly industrialised, becoming by the 1990s one of the world's leading commercial city, one of the "Four Asian Tigers" with one of the highest standard of living anywhere in Asia. In 1997, Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China, whose government designated the city a "Special Administrative Region", thus giving Hong Kong a substantial level of autonomy.

During the GLA War, Hong Kong became a battlefield when the local GLA terror cell took over the city.