TNAG-0885-FCO40-1095-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 118

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7.

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Country or region

Area in million

62 refugees

sq miles

per sq mile (in millions)

Population (millions)

0.53% of population (in millio

AS EAN

1.2

74

245

1.3

China

3.7

230

950

5.1

EEC

0.59

37

250

1.33

Japan

0.14

8.7

115

0.6

U K

0.09

5.7

56

0.3

USA

3.5

217

220

1.17

Vietnam

0.13

8.1

55

0.29

8.

To the 25,000 refugees awaiting resettlement from Hong Kong must be added a further 12,000 former residents of Indo-China who have been allowed to settle in Hong Kong since 1975. Furthermore, the refugee influx into Hong Kong must be set against a background of roughly 180,000 legal and illegal immigrants from China over the past 16 months total greater than the present number of all land refugees in Thailand.

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Political Adviser's Office Hong Kong

11 May 1979

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