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Hong Kong (pronunciation in Hong Kong Cantonese), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia.

Macau lies across the delta to the west, and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north.

With a total land area of and a population of over 7.3 million of various nationalities, it ranks as the world's fourth most densely populated sovereign state or territory.

OHADA is a system of business laws and implementing institutions adopted by seventeen West and Central African nations October 17, 1993 in Port Louis, Mauritius.

OHADA is the acronym for the French "Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires", which translates into English as "Organisation for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa".

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe.

Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino and Vatican City.

Italy covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate.

Due to its shape, it is often referred to in Italy as lo Stivale (the Boot).

With 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous EU member state.

American English (variously abbreviated AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), also called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States and widely adopted in Canada.

English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and is the common language used by the federal government, considered the de facto language of the country because of its widespread use.

English has been given official status by 32 of the 50 state governments.

As an example, while both Spanish and English have equivalent status in the local courts of Puerto Rico, under federal law, English is the official language for any matters being referred to the United States district court for the territory.

French (or) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages.

French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted.

French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders.

Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole.

A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as "Francophone" in both English and French.