24-36 Number of Regional Offices in Hong Kong by Country/Territory of the Parent Company
	(unit)
Item	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Number of regional offices in Hong Kong	2644	2584	2328	2353	2412
Country/Territory of  the parent company
United States of America	593	612	526	529	525
Japan	516	494	447	405	426
United Kingdom	223	234	213	194	210
Taiwan, China	155	158	138	184	175
The mainland of China	152	128	127	162	151
Germany	129	133	123	120	125
France	121	111	104	105	105
Singapore	105	98	91	98	101
Switzerland	64	63	61	57	69
Italy	57	52	51	62	68
Netherlands	51	51	49	50	61
Korea	64	56	44	43	42
Australia	69	61	46	41	41
Canada	32	32	33	33	32
Sweden	36	43	42	32	29
Note : 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 where the parent company was located.