vintage map hong kong 1900s

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Harmsworth`s Universal Encyclopaedia 1920s - Social History. Map of the important British crown colony on the coast of China, showing the island and the Kowloon extension on the mainland. British Hong Kong was a colony and dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a brief period under Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. The colonial period began with the occupation of Hong Kong Island in 1841 during the First Opium War.