This article was first published in the June 2010 edition of Civil Engineering Survey - the journal of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES). Permission to reproduce the article has been given by Darrell Smart, Director of Publications ICES, Cheshire, England. Since the British ceded Hong Kong Island in 1841 the territory was expanded progressively through acquisition of the Kowloon peninsula in 1860 and leasing of the New Territories from China in 1898. Reclaimed by China in 1997, Hong Kong is located in southern China and comprises Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and the Outlying Islands. It has an area of about 1,100 square kilometres and a current population of just over seven million people.
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