Hong Kong
an island of China in the Bay of Canton, E. of Macao; area, 32 square miles. It was given to the British by the treaty of Nan-Kin in 1842, depends on the presidency of Calcutta, and has Victoria as capital. A university was opened in 1912. Pop. (1917) 535,100.
HONITON (hon'i-ton), a town of Devonshire, England, near the left bank of the Otter. The famous Honiton pillow-lace, a manufacture introduced here by Flemish refugees in the middle of the 16th century, is still a specialty of the district.