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In 1790, the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia both ceded land to create the District of Columbia, as specified in the U.S. Constitution of the previous year. The Virginia portion was given back in 1847, a process known as "retrocession".
After the Opium Wars, Hong Kong and Kowloon were ceded by the Qing Dynasty government of China to the United Kingdom.
Territory can also be ceded for payment, such as in the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska Purchase. Even fraud can be involved, such as in the Treaty of New Echota, whereby lands already taken in 1832 by outright theft of the U.S. state of Georgia were later "ceded" to the state by a Cherokee leader.
Claridge's ceded a hotel room in the Second World War to be temporarily part of Yugoslavia so the new crown prince could be born on his country's own "soil".
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