Hong Kong

See also: Hongkong, Hong-Kong, and Hồng Kông

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 Hong Kong Island.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌhɒŋˈkɒŋ/
Rhymes: -ɒŋ
Audio (Canada) (file)

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) The British colony which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese SAR.

Synonyms

(region in China): HK, Hongkong, Xianggang

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 (hôngkông), হং কং (hông kông)
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
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 (honkongu)
Dutch: Hongkong (nl)
Dzongkha: ཧོང་ཀོང (hong kong)
Esperanto: Honkongo
Estonian: Hongkong
Finnish: Hongkong (fi), Xianggang
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 (hā̃g kā̃g)
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

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 (hŏṅg kŏṅg)
Mazanderani: هونگ کونگ‎
Mongolian: Хонг Конг (Hong Kong), Сянган (Sjangan)
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
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'ng ka'ng)
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 (Xoŋ Koŋ), Сяҥгаҥ (Syaŋgaŋ)
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 (coastal administrative region in south-east China)

Finnish

Proper noun

Hong Kong

Alternative spelling of Hongkong

Declension

Inflection of Hong Kong (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Hong Kong	—
genitive		Hong Kongin	—
partitive		Hong Kongia	—
illative		Hong Kongiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Hong Kong	—
accusative	nom.	Hong Kong	—
accusative	gen.	Hong Kongin	—
genitive		Hong Kongin	—
partitive		Hong Kongia	—
inessive		Hong Kongissa	—
elative		Hong Kongista	—
illative		Hong Kongiin	—
adessive		Hong Kongilla	—
ablative		Hong Kongilta	—
allative		Hong Kongille	—
essive		Hong Kongina	—
translative		Hong Kongiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Hong Kongitta	—
comitative		—	—

French

Pronunciation

^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ̃ɡ.kɔ̃ɡ/, /ɔŋ.kɔŋ/
Audio (file)
Audio (Paris) (file)

Proper noun

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Hongkong (dated)

Etymology

From Cantonese 香港 (“fragrant harbour”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌhõɡ.ˈkõɡ/, /ˌhõ.ɡi.ˈkõ.ɡi/

Proper noun

Hong Kong f

Hong Kong (a city and special administrative region of China)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Hongkong

Proper noun

Hong Kong m (Cyrillic spelling Хонг Конг)

Hong Kong

Spanish

Proper noun

Hong Kong m

Hong Kong (coastal administrative region in south-east China)

Related terms

hongkonés

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