English
Etymology
From Cantonese 香港 hoeng1 gong2 Fragrant Harbor ”), the former name of a settlement in what is now Aberdeen on the southwest side of Kowloon Island.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hong Kong
A city located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea , formerly owned by the United Kingdom and now administrated by the People's Republic of China.
Hong Kong Island , the site of the city , lying off Guangdong province in southeastern China .The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China , which includes nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula .
( historical ) British colony which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese SAR .
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
coastal administrative region in south-east China
Afrikaans: Hongkong
Albanian: Hong Kong
Amharic: ሆንግ ኮንግ ( hong kong )
Arabic: هُونْغ كُونْغ m ( honḡ konḡ ) , هُونْغْكُونْغ m ( honḡkonḡ ) , هُونْكُونْغ m ( honkonḡ ) , هُونْجْكُونْج m ( hongkong ) , هُونْج كُونْج m ( hong kong ) , هُونْكُونْج m ( honkong )
Aragonese: Hong Kong
Armenian: Հոնկոնգ ( Honkong )
Assamese: হংকং ( hoṅkoṅ )
Asturian: Hong Kong
Azerbaijani: Honq Konq Syanqan
Bashkir: Гонконг ( Gonkong ) , Һоңкоң ( Hoñkoñ )
Basque: Hong Kong
Belarusian: Ганко́нг m ( Hankónh ) , Сянга́н m ( Sjanhán )
Bengali: হংকং ( hoṅkoṅ ) , হং কং ( hoṅ koṅ )
Bishnupriya Manipuri: হংকং ( haṅkaṁ )
Breton: Hong Kong
Bulgarian: Хонко́нг m ( Honkóng ) , Сянга́н m ( Sjangán ) , Хонг Конг (bg) m ( Hong Kong )
Burmese: ဟောင်ကောင် ( haungkaung )
Catalan: Hong Kong (ca)
Cebuano: Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: 香港 (yue) ( hoeng1 gong2 )
Hakka: 香港 ( Hiông-kóng )
Mandarin: 香港 (zh) ( Xiānggǎng )
Min Dong: 香港 ( Hiŏng-gē̤ng )
Min Nan: 香港 (zh-min-nan) ( Hiong-káng, Hiang-káng )
Wu: 香港 ( xian kaan )
Cornish: Hong Kong
Czech: Hongkong (cs) m
Danish: Hongkong
Dhivehi: ހޮންކޮންގު ( hon̊kon̊gu )
Dutch: Hongkong (nl)
Dzongkha: ཧོང་ཀོང ( hong kong )
Esperanto: Honkongo
Estonian: Hongkong
Finnish: Hongkong (fi)
French: Hong Kong (fr) m Hongkong (fr) m Xianggang (fr) m
Georgian: ჰონგკონგი ( hongḳongi )
German: Hongkong (de) n
Greek: Χονγκ Κονγκ (el) ( Chongk Kongk )
Gujarati: હોંગકોંગ ( hoṅgkoṅg )
Hawaiian: Honokaona
Hebrew: הונג קונג m ( hong kong ) , הונג־קונג m ( hong-kong )
Hindi: हांग कांग ( hāṅg kāṅg ) , हांगकांग ( hāṅgkāṅg ) , हाँग काँग ( hāṅg kāṅg )
Hungarian: Hongkong (hu)
Icelandic: Hong Kong
Ido: Hong Kong
Ilocano: Hong Kong
Indonesian: Hong Kong
Interlingua: Hong Kong
Irish: Hong Cong
Italian: Hong Kong f
Japanese: 香港 ( ホンコン, Honkon ) , ホンコン ( Honkon ) , シャンガン ( Shangan )
Javanese: Hong Kong
Kannada: ಹಾಂಗ್ ಕಾಂಗ್ ( hāṅg kāṅg )
Kapampangan: Hong Kong
Kazakh: Шәңғаң ( Şäñğañ )
Khmer: ហុងកុង (km) ( hongkong )
Korean: 홍콩 ( Hongkong ) , 향항 ( Hyanghang ) (香港
Kyrgyz: Гонконг ( Gonkong ) , Сянган ( Syangan )
Lao: ຮ່ອງກົງ ( hǭng kong ) , ຮົງກົງ ( hong kong )
Latin: Hongcongum Siamkiamum
Latvian: Honkonga f Sjangana f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Ligurian: Hong Kong
Limburgish: Hong Kong
Lithuanian: Honkongas (lt) m Siangangas (lt) m
Lombard: Hong Kong
Low German: Hongkong
Luxembourgish: Hong Kong (lb)
Lü: ᦶᦌᧂᧈᦅᦱᧂ ( saeng¹kaang )
Macedonian: Хонгконг m ( Hongkong )
Malay: Hong Kong
Malayalam: ഹോങ്കോങ് ( hōṅkōṅŭ )
Maori: Hongipua
Marathi: हाँग काँग ( hŏṅga kŏṅga )
Mazanderani: هونگ کونگ
Mongolian: Хонконг ( Xonkong ) , Шианган ( Šiangan )
Nahuatl: Hong Kong
Norman: Hong Kong m
Norwegian: Hongkong
Occitan: Hong Kong
Oriya: ହଂକଂ ( haṅkaṁ )
Ossetian: Гонконг ( Gonkong )
Pashto: هانګ کانګ ( hāng kāng ) , هاڼ کاڼ ( hāṅ kāṅ )
Persian: هنگ کنگ ( hong kong ) , هنگکنگ ( hong-kong )
Polish: Hongkong (pl) m
Portuguese: Hong Kong (pt) f
Punjabi: ਹਾਂਗ ਕਾਂਗ ( hāṅg kāṅg )
Romanian: Hong Kong
Russian: Гонко́нг (ru) m ( Gonkóng ) , Сянга́н (ru) m ( Sjangán )
Samogitian: Huonkuongs
Santali: ᱦᱚᱝᱠᱚᱝ ( hôṅkôṅ )
Scottish Gaelic: Hong Cong
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Хонг Конг m
Roman: Hong Kong (sh) m
Sicilian: Hong Kong
Silesian: Hůngkůng
Sinhalese: හොංකොං ( hoṁkoṁ )
Slovak: Hongkong m
Slovene: Hong Kong m
Spanish: Hong Kong (es) m
Sundanese: Hong Kong
Swahili: Hong Kong
Swedish: Hongkong (sv)
Tagalog: Hongkong
Tajik: Гонконг (tg) ( Gonkong ) , Сянган ( Syangan )
Tamil: ஹொங்கொங் ( hoṅkoṅ )
Tatar: Гонконг ( Ğonkong ) , Һоңконг ( Hoñkong )
Telugu: హాంగ్కాంగ్ ( hāṅgkāṅg )
Thai: ฮ่องกง (th) ( hɔ̂ng-gong )
Tibetan: ཞང་ཀང ( zhang kang ) , ཤང་ཀང ( shang kang ) , ཤའང་ཀའང ( sha'ang ka'ang )
Turkish: Hong Kong (tr)
Turkmen: Sýangan Gonkong
Ukrainian: Гонко́нг m ( Honkónh ) , Сянга́н m ( Sjanhán ) , Сянґа́н m ( Sjangán )
Urdu: ہانگ کانگ ( hāṅg kāṅg )
Uyghur: شياڭگاڭ ( shyanggang ) , شاڭگاڭ ( shanggang )
Uzbek: Syangan Gonkong
Venetian: Hong Kong
Vietnamese: Hồng Kông Hương Cảng (vi) (香港 (vi) )
Welsh: Hong Kong (cy)
Wolof: Ooŋ Koŋ
Yakut: Хоҥ Коҥ ( Qoñ Koñ ) , Сяҥгаҥ ( Sañgañ )
Yiddish: האָנג קאָנג n ( hong kong ) , האָנגקאָנג n ( hongkong )
Zazaki: Hong Kong
Zhuang: Yanghgangj (please verify ) Homgongj
Asturian
Proper noun
Hong Kong m
Hong Kong administrative region in southeastern China
Finnish
Proper noun
Hong Kong
Alternative spelling of Hongkong
Declension
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hong Kong ?
Hong Kong
See also
Portuguese
Etymology
From Cantonese 香港 ( hoeng1 gong2 , “ fragrant harbour ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Hong Kong f
Hong Kong special administrative region of China
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Hong Kong m Cyrillic spelling Хонг Конг
Hong Kong
Spanish
Proper noun
Hong Kong m
Hong Kong administrative region in southeastern China
