[url=http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/]Hong Kong[/url] (香港 Heūng Góng in Cantonese, meaning Fragrant Harbour) is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the [wiki=ac42fcbe17137c9e75a3d649ff55c054]People's Republic of China[/wiki]. It's a place with multiple personalities as a result of being both Cantonese Chinese and having been under British colonisation. Today, the former British colony is a major tourism destination for China's increasingly affluent mainland population. It's an important hub in [wiki=f74e1c0c8ee8410fa5bfe03676347257]East Asia[/wiki] with global connections to many of the world's cities. It is a unique destination that has absorbed people and cultural influences from places as diverse as Vietnam and Vancouver and proudly proclaims itself to be Asia's World City.