23-36 Number of Regional Offices in Hong Kong by Country/Territory of the Parent Company
	(unit)
Item	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Number of regional offices	2631	2617	2644	2584	2328
in Hong Kong①
Country/Territory of the Parent Company
United States of America	606	594	593	612	526
Japan	537	519	516	494	447
United Kingdom	215	223	223	234	213
Taiwan, China	133	149	155	158	138
The mainland of China	160	156	152	128	127
Germany	139	136	129	133	123
France	110	117	121	111	104
Singapore	103	106	105	98	91
Switzerland	73	68	64	63	61
Italy	53	52	57	52	51
Netherlands	50	47	51	51	49
Australia	69	65	69	61	46
Republic of Korea	68	62	64	56	44
Sweden	33	34	36	43	42
Canada	25	31	32	32	33
Notes : Figures refer to the first working day of June of the year.  A regional office is an office that coordinates offices and/or operations in the region
(i.e. Hong Kong plus one or more other places) on behalf of its parent company located outside Hong Kong. In the case of a joint-ventured
regional office in Hong Kong, there may be more than one country/territory of its parent company/companies.
①Definition of regional office has been revised from 2006 onwards.  Figures for regional office for 2006 and onwards presented above
may not be strictly comparable with those before 2006.