The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and was further extended when the United Kingdom obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841–1842. With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and a special administrative region in China. Hong Kong ( US: / ˈ h ɒ ŋ k ɒ ŋ/ or UK: / h ɒ ŋ ˈ k ɒ ŋ/ Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: ( listen)), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. None for local vehicles, 粤Z for cross-boundary vehicles
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