As of 2006, an estimated 36,000 British people live in China, including those living in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. [1] A different estimate puts the number of Britons in China (including Hong Kong) at 3,752,031, [2] [3] the majority of which are those in Hong Kong who have continued to possess British nationality, particularly the British nationals (overseas) status, which numbered 3.4 million as of 2007. [4]
As of the 2011 Hong Kong Census, there were 33,733 Britons in Hong Kong. [5]
British international schools in Mainland China include:
Beijing:
Guangdong:
Jiangsu:
Shandong:
Shanghai:
Sichuan:
Tianjin:
British schools in Hong Kong include:
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