skos:altLabel | - 29 August 1842
- Hong Kong to Britain
- Nanjing Treaty
- Nanking
- Treaty of Nanjing
- ceded
- ceded to the British as a colony
- cession
- cession of Hong Kong
- cession of Hong Kong Island
- concessionary treaty
- expand trading opportunities beyond Canton
- peace treaty
- possession
- prior to 1842
- same privileges extended to Britain
- the cession
- the end of the war
- the forced opening in 1840s
- treaty
- was abolished
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