China: Hong Kong cityscape including the Central Plaza Building and the Two International Finance Centre. Looking towards Hong Kong Island from Kowloon

China: Hong Kong cityscape including the Central Plaza Building and the Two International Finance Centre. Looking towards Hong Kong Island from Kowloon.

Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, Hong Kong has become one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. It is the world's tenth-largest exporter and ninth-largest importer.

Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842.

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Photographer:

David Henley

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David Henley/Pictures From Asia