special administrative region of China Hong Kong http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D006723 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/223382005 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16695 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hong_Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8646 A special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The territory lies on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south. Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until the transfer of its sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Hong Kongese Hongkonger South China Sea The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide, Vol. 1