hong_kong | leadername | carrie_lam_(politician) <sep> hong kong (us:  or uk: ; chinese: 香港, cantonese: [hœ́ːŋkɔ̌ːŋ] (listen)), officially the hong kong special administrative region of the people's republic of china (abbr hong kong sar or hksar), is a city and special administrative region of china on the eastern pearl river delta in south china with 74 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, hong kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world hong kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world hong kong was established as a colony of the british empire after the qing empire ceded hong kong island from xin'an county at the end of the first opium war in 1841 then again in 1842 
carrie lam is the leader of hong kong.no information