Kowloon Attractions Kailun
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To the north of Hong Kong Island, on the far side of Victoria Harbour, is the Kowloon peninsula (Chinese Kailun, "Nine Dragons"), Hong Kong's second urban area. The peninsula was ceded to Britain after the second Opium War under the Convention of Peking (1860); then in 1898 the area north of Boundary Street was also acquired by Britain under a 99-year lease, which expired in 1997.
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