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51 relations: Banded krait, Banyan, Beaches of Hong Kong, Black kite, British Army, Cable-stayed bridge, Chek Lap Kok, China, Cobra, Convention of Peking, Direction finding, DuPont, Escherichia coli, Far East Combined Bureau, Hakka Chinese, History of Jardine, Matheson & Co., HMS Tamar (shore station), Hong Kong, Hong Kong 1967 leftist riots, Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong Military Service Corps, Imperial Japanese Army, Island, Japan, Kowloon, Kowloon Peninsula, Kwai Tsing Container Terminals, Land reclamation in Hong Kong, List of islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, List of places in Hong Kong, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base, NHK, People's Liberation Army, Qing dynasty, Route 8 (Hong Kong), Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Navy, Sewage treatment, Sikh, Star Ferry, Stonecutters Bridge, Sulphur-crested cockatoo, Tamarind, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Tropidolaemus wagleri, Tsing Yi, United Kingdom, Victoria Harbour, West Kowloon, ..., World War II. Expand index (1 more) »
Banded krait
The banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus) is a species of elapid snake found on the Indian Subcontinent and in Southeast Asia.
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Banyan
A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that begins its life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice.
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Beaches of Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a long coastline that is full of twists and turns with many bays and beaches.
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Black kite
The black kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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Cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge has one or more towers (or pylons), from which cables support the bridge deck.
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Chek Lap Kok
Chek Lap Kok is an island in the western waters of Hong Kong.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Cobra
Cobra is the common name of various elapid snakes, most of which belonging to the genus Naja.
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Convention of Peking
The Convention or First Convention of Peking, sometimes now known as the Convention of Beijing, is an agreement comprising three distinct treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and the United Kingdom, French Empire, and Russian Empire in 1860.
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Direction finding
Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the measurement of the direction from which a received signal was transmitted.
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DuPont
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).
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Far East Combined Bureau
The Far East Combined Bureau, an outstation of the British Government Code and Cypher School, was set up in Hong Kong in March 1935, to monitor Japanese, and also Chinese and Russian (Soviet) intelligence and radio traffic.
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Hakka Chinese
Hakka, also rendered Kejia, is one of the major groups of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout southern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.
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History of Jardine, Matheson & Co.
Jardine Matheson & Co., later Jardine Matheson & Co.
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HMS Tamar (shore station)
HMS Tamar was the name for the British Royal Navy's base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Hong Kong 1967 leftist riots
The Hong Kong 1967 leftist riots were large-scale riots between pro-communists and their sympathisers, and the establishment.
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Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong International Airport is the main airport in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Military Service Corps
The Hong Kong Military Service Corps (HKMSC) (Traditional Chinese: 香港軍事服務團) was a British army unit and part of the British garrison in Hong Kong (see British Forces Overseas Hong Kong).
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Imperial Japanese Army
The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Kowloon
Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon.
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Kowloon Peninsula
The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong.
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Kwai Tsing Container Terminals
Kwai Tsing Container Terminals is the main port facilities in the reclamation along Rambler Channel between Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong.
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Land reclamation in Hong Kong
The reclamation of land from the ocean has long been used in mountainous Hong Kong to expand the limited supply of usable land with a total of around 60 square kilometres of land created by 1996.
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List of islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong
Hong Kong comprises the Kowloon peninsula and 261 islands over 500 m2, the largest being Lantau Island and the second largest being Hong Kong Island.
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List of places in Hong Kong
The following is a list of areas of Hong Kong.
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Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.
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Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base
Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base is part of the People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison and small naval base on Stonecutters Island (Ngong Shuen Chau), Hong Kong.
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NHK
is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.
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People's Liberation Army
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Communist Party of China (CPC).
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.
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Route 8 (Hong Kong)
Route 8 of Hong Kong is a dual 3-lane carriageway motorway that links Lantau Island, Tsing Yi Island, Cheung Sha Wan in West Kowloon, and Sha Tin in the southeast New Territories of Hong Kong.
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Royal Army Ordnance Corps
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage.
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Sikh
A Sikh (ਸਿੱਖ) is a person associated with Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
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Star Ferry
The Star Ferry is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong.
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Stonecutters Bridge
Stonecutters Bridge is a high level cable-stayed bridge spanning the Rambler Channel in Hong Kong, connecting Nam Wan Kok, Tsing Yi to Stonecutters Island.
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo
The sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia.
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Tamarind
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae indigenous to tropical Africa.
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Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in Mainland China, took place on 1 July 1997.
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Tropidolaemus wagleri
Tropidolaemus wagleri is a venomous pitviper species native to South-East Asia.
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Tsing Yi
Tsing Yi, sometimes referred to as Tsing Yi Island, is an island in the urban area of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Victoria Harbour
Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour situated between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon in Hong Kong.
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West Kowloon
West Kowloon is a part of Kowloon, Hong Kong situated within the Yau Tsim Mong District.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonecutters_Island
