Cities of Empire: The British Colonies And The Creation Of The Urban World, Tristram Hunt, c. 2014.

Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World, Tristram Hunt, c. 2014. 941HUN.

515 pages.

The cities:

• Boston
• Bridgetown, Barbados
• Dublin
• Cape Town
• Calcutta
• Hong Kong
• Bombay
• Melbourne
• New Delhi
• Liverpool

Hong Kong, p. 223. 

• January 26, 1841
• HMS Sulphur
• circumnavigates the island of Hong Kong and lands on the island and claims it
  
•  Portuguese trading enclave, Macao
• Scottish merchant James Matheson
• to store opium there

Hong Kong, island to the east of Macao

• Macao, on a peninsula, south China
• one island to too the east: Lantau Island
• then, the next island to the east: Hong Kong Island
• multiple, small islands
• perhaps midway up the coast between Taiwan and Vietnam 
• the Pearl River Delta
• the Pearl River on the Chinese peninsula north of Macao
• Pearl River Estuary, west of Hong Kong; huge estuary
  
• South China Seaa to the south of Hong Kong, and east of Macao
• Victoria Harbor
• between Kowloon on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong Island
• estuaries to compare; table with basin areas of various river deltas; basin size (
  
• St Lawrence: largest estuary but not largest river discharge basin: 1,267
  
• Amazon: 5,854
  
• Mississippi: 3,203
  
• Pearl River: 477
  
• Columbia River: 724