Also geographically the major portion of HK, the New Territories has gone back to China in 1997 because the British had lease of it only till that time. Only th

Also geographically the major portion of HK, the New Territories has gone back to China in 1997 because the British had lease of it only till that time. Only the HK Island and Kowloon areas are the territories British yeilded to China under agreement. So post 1997 Britain had a claim only to a small part of the geographical area of HK.