24-36 Number of Regional Offices in Hong Kong by Country/Territory of the Parent Company
	(unit)
Item	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Number of regional offices	2617	2644	2584	2328	2353
in Hong Kong①
Country/Territory of the parent company②
United States of America	594	593	612	526	529
Japan	519	516	494	447	405
United Kingdom	223	223	234	213	194
Taiwan, China	149	155	158	138	184
The mainland of China	156	152	128	127	162
Germany	136	129	133	123	120
France	117	121	111	104	105
Singapore	106	105	98	91	98
Italy	52	57	52	51	62
Switzerland	68	64	63	61	57
Netherlands	47	51	51	49	50
Korea	62	64	56	44	43
Australia	65	69	61	46	41
Canada	31	32	32	33	33
Sweden	34	36	43	42	32
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 companies.
①The definition of regional office was revised in 2006.  Hence, figures from 2006 onwards may not be strictly comparable with those for earlier years.
②Figures refer to the countries/territories where parent companies were located.