Macau

Macau is a former colony, a world-renowned gambling destination, and one of the world's most densely populated places, with a population of 667,000 people in an area half the size of Manhattan Island.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Peninsula and Taipa.

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The Macau is the northern portion of 's Special Administrative Region of Macau.

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is the centremost of the three regions of Macau.

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is the southern-most island of Macau.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Cotai.

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, also known as the Strip, is advertised…
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Ruins of St. Paul and Grand Lisboa.

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The Ruins of Saint Paul's are the remnants…

Casino
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is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in , Macau.

Buddhist temple
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The A-Má Temple is a temple to the Chinese sea-goddess Mazu located in , Macau, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nossa Senhora de Fátima and Santo António.

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is the northernmost and…

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is a civil parish in the western portion of the of Macau.

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is a township-level division…

Macau

  • Type: City with 623,000 residents
  • Description: city and special administrative region of China
  • Also known as: “Áo Môn”, “Àomén”, “Aomen Tebie Xingzhengqu”, “CN-92”, “ma Maka”, “Ma-cao”, “MAC”, “Macao”, “Macao S.A.R”, “Macao S.A.R.”, “Macao SAR”, “Macao SAR, China”, “Macao Special Administrative Region”, “Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China”, “Macaon Kiinan kansantasavallan erityishallintoalue”, “Macau SAR”, “Macau SAR, China”, “Macau Special Administrative Region”, “Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China”, “Makao SAR”, “mo”, “MO”, “Province of Macao”, “Provincia de Macao”, “Província de Macau”, “RAEM”, “RAS de Macao”, “RAS de Macao, Chine”, “Reġjun Amministrattiv Speċjali tal-Macao”, “Sonderverwaltungszone Macao”, “Sonderverwaltungszone Macao der Volksrepublik China”, “Speciala Administra Regiono Makao”, “Speciale Administratieve Regio Macau van de Volksrepubliek China”, “Аоминь”, “Макъ као”, “Специальный административный район Аомынь”, “Специальный административный район Макао”, “Աոմին”, “الماكاو”, “قائمة جزر ماكاو”, “ماكاو، الصين”, “منطقة ماكاو الإدارية الخاصة”, “மகௌ”, “මැකාවු”, “마카오 특별행정구”, “오문”, “오문특별행정구”, “マカウ”, “マカオ特別行政区”, “中华人民共和国澳门特别行政区”, “中国澳门”, “中國澳門”, “中華人民共和国マカオ特別行政区”, “中華人民共和国澳門特別行政区”, “中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區”, “東洋のラスベガス”, “澳門 Macau”, “澳門特別行政區”, “澳門特區”, “澳门特区”, “馬交”, “馬交、濠江”, and “马交”
  • Languages: Chinese and Portuguese
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: special administrative region of China, city-state, big city, human settlement, tourist destination, dependent territory, customs territory of China, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude
22.195° or 22° 11′ 42″ north
Longitude
113.5478° or 113° 32′ 52″ east
Population
623,000
Area
254 km² (98 miles²)
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Capital
Macao
Currency
Pataca (MOP)
Phone code
853
Internet domain
.mo
Open location code
7PJM5GVX+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1939592594
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1821275
Wiki­data ID
Q14773
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Macau” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Makèë”
  • Afrikaans: “Macau”
  • Albanian: “Makao”
  • Amharic: “ማካኦ”
  • Amharic: “ማካው”
  • Amis: “Macau”
  • Angika: “मकाउ”
  • Arabic: “ماكاو”
  • Arabic: “مكاو”
  • Aragonese: “Macau”
  • Armenian: “Մակաո”
  • Assamese: “মাকাও”
  • Asturian: “Macáu”
  • Atayal: “Macau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Makao”
  • Balinese: “Makau”
  • Bashkir: “Макао”
  • Basque: “Macao”
  • Basque: “Macau”
  • Basque: “Makau”
  • Bavarian: “Macao”
  • Belarusian: “Макаа”
  • Belarusian: “Макао”
  • Bengali: “মাকাও”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাকাও”
  • Betawi: “Makao”
  • Bishnupriya: “মাকাউ”
  • Bosnian: “Makao”
  • Breton: “Macau”
  • Breton: “Makao”
  • Buginese: “Makau”
  • Buginese: “ᨆᨀᨕᨘ”
  • Bulgarian: “Макао”
  • Burmese: “မကာအို”
  • Catalan: “Macao”
  • Catalan: “Macau”
  • Cebuano: “Macau”
  • Central Bikol: “Macau”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماکاو”
  • Chechen: “Макао”
  • Cherokee: “ᎹᎧᎣ”
  • Chinese: “Àomén-shì”
  • Chinese: “澳門”
  • Chinese: “澳门”
  • Chinese: “澳门特别行政区”
  • Chuvash: “Макао”
  • Corsican: “Macau”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Makau”
  • Croatian: “Makao”
  • Croatian: “Posebna upravna regija Makao”
  • Czech: “Macao”
  • Dagbani: “Macau”
  • Danish: “Macao”
  • Dhivehi: “މަކާއޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Makao”
  • Dotyali: “मकाउ”
  • Dutch: “Macao”
  • Dutch: “Macau”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ཀའོ”
  • Dzongkha: “མཀ་ཨའུ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماكاو”
  • Esperanto: “Makao”
  • Estonian: “Aomen”
  • Estonian: “Macau”
  • Ewe: “Macau nutome”
  • Ewe: “Macau”
  • Extremaduran: “Macau”
  • Faroese: “Makao”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Macau”
  • Finnish: “Macao”
  • French: “Macao”
  • Gagauz: “Makao”
  • Galician: “Macau”
  • Gan Chinese: “澳門”
  • Gan Chinese: “澳门”
  • Georgian: “მაკაო”
  • German: “Macao”
  • German: “Macau”
  • German: “Sonderverwaltungszone Macau”
  • Greek: “Μακάο”
  • Greek: “Μακάου”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Makao”
  • Gujarati: “મકાઉ”
  • Haitian: “Makawo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Au-mùn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Àu-mûn”
  • Hausa: “Babban Yankin Mulkin Macao na Ƙasar Sin”
  • Hausa: “Macau”
  • Hawaiian: “Macau”
  • Hebrew: “מקאו”
  • Hindi: “मकाउ”
  • Hindi: “मकाऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Makaó”
  • Icelandic: “Macau”
  • Icelandic: “Makaó”
  • Ido: “Macau”
  • Ido: “Makau”
  • Igbo: “Macao”
  • Iloko: “Macau”
  • Indonesian: “Macao”
  • Indonesian: “Makau”
  • Interlingua: “Macao”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒪᑲᐅ”
  • Irish: “Macao”
  • Irish: “Macau”
  • Italian: “Macao”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Makow”
  • Japanese: “マカオ”
  • Javanese: “Macau”
  • Javanese: “Makau”
  • Kabiyè: “Makaʊ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Macao”
  • Kalaallisut: “Macau”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕಾವು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Makao”
  • Kashmiri: “مَکاؤ”
  • Kashmiri: “مَکاو”
  • Kashmiri: “مَکاوو ایس اے آر چیٖن”
  • Kazakh: “Аумын”
  • Kazakh: “Макао”
  • Khmer: “ម៉ាកាវ”
  • Kikuyu: “Macau”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Makawo”
  • Kirghiz: “Макао”
  • Komering: “Makau”
  • Korean: “마카오”
  • Kurdish: “Makao”
  • Ladino: “Makao”
  • Lao: “ມາກາວ”
  • Lao: “ມາເກົາ”
  • Latin: “Macaum”
  • Latvian: “Makao”
  • Lezghian: “Макао”
  • Ligurian: “Macao”
  • Limburgan: “Macau”
  • Lingala: “Makau”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Macau”
  • Literary Chinese: “澳門”
  • Lithuanian: “Macao”
  • Lithuanian: “Makao”
  • Livvi: “Macau”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdemu’o”
  • Lombard: “Macao”
  • Luxembourgish: “Macau”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Macao”
  • Macedonian: “Макао”
  • Madurese: “Makau”
  • Magahi: “मकाउ”
  • Maithili: “मकाउ”
  • Malagasy: “Macau”
  • Malay: “Macao S.A.R., China”
  • Malay: “Macau”
  • Malay: “Makau”
  • Malayalam: “മകൗ”
  • Malayalam: “മക്കാവു”
  • Maltese: “il-Macao”
  • Maltese: “Macao”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯀꯥꯎ”
  • Maori: “Makao”
  • Marathi: “मकाओ”
  • Mazanderani: “ماکائو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ó̤-muòng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ò-mn̂g”
  • Mingrelian: “მაკაო”
  • Mirandese: “Macau”
  • Mongolian: “Макао”
  • Nepali: “मकाउ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Macau”
  • Northern Luri: “ماکائو”
  • Northern Sami: “Makáo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Macao”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Macao”
  • Norwegian: “Macao”
  • Novial: “Makau”
  • Nyanja: “Macau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Macau”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Macau”
  • Oriya: “ମକାଉ”
  • Oriya: “ମାକାଉ”
  • Oriya: “ମାକାଓ”
  • Ossetian: “Макао”
  • Pampanga: “Macau”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਕਾਉ”
  • Papiamento: “Macao”
  • Persian: “ماکائو”
  • Picard: “Macao”
  • Pipil: “Macao”
  • Polish: “Makau”
  • Portuguese: “Macau”
  • Portuguese: “Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China”
  • Portuguese: “Região Administrativa Especial de Macau”
  • Pushto: “مکاو”
  • Quechua: “Macao”
  • Quechua: “Macau”
  • Quechua: “Makaw”
  • Romanian: “Macao”
  • Romanian: “Macau, Brazilia”
  • Romanian: “Macau”
  • Romansh: “Macao”
  • Russia Buriat: “Макао”
  • Russian: “Аомынь”
  • Russian: “Макао”
  • Sakizaya: “Macau”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱠᱟᱣ”
  • Sardinian: “Macau”
  • Scots: “Macau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Macàthu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Macau”
  • Serbian: “Макао”
  • Serbian: “Макау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macao”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Makao”
  • Shan: “မႃႇၵၢဝ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Makawo”
  • Sicilian: “Macau”
  • Silesian: “Makau”
  • Sindhi: “مڪائو”
  • Sindhi: “ميڪائو”
  • Sinhala: “මකාවු”
  • Sinhala: “මකාවෝ”
  • Slovak: “Macao”
  • Slovak: “Makao”
  • Slovenian: “Macao”
  • Slovenian: “Makav”
  • Somali: “Makaaw”
  • Somali: “Makaw”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماکائو”
  • Southern Altai: “Макао”
  • Spanish: “Macao”
  • Sundanese: “Makau”
  • Swahili: “Macau”
  • Swahili: “Makau”
  • Swedish: “Macao”
  • Swiss German: “Macau”
  • Tagalog: “Macau”
  • Tagalog: “Makaw”
  • Tajik: “Аомин”
  • Tajik: “Макао”
  • Talysh: “Makau”
  • Tamil: “மகாவ்”
  • Tamil: “மக்காவு”
  • Taroko: “Macau”
  • Tatar: “Макао”
  • Telugu: “మకావు”
  • Telugu: “మకావ్”
  • Tetum: “Makau”
  • Thai: “เขตบริหารพิเศษมาเก๊า”
  • Thai: “มาเก๊า”
  • Tibetan: “མེ་ཀའོ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማካው”
  • Tigrinya: “ማካዎ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Makau”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Makau”
  • Turkish: “Macau”
  • Turkish: “Makao”
  • Turkmen: “Makao”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱ka̱u”
  • Uighur: “ئاۋمېن”
  • Ukrainian: “Аомень”
  • Ukrainian: “Макао”
  • Urdu: “مکاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Makao”
  • Venetian: “Macao”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma Cao”
  • Vietnamese: “Macao”
  • Volapük: “Makaovän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Macau”
  • Welsh: “Macau”
  • Western Armenian: “Մաքաո”
  • Western Frisian: “Macao”
  • Western Frisian: “Makao”
  • Western Frisian: “Makau”
  • Western Panjabi: “مکاؤ”
  • Wolof: “Makaaw”
  • Wolof: “Makaawo”
  • Wu Chinese: “澳门”
  • Xhosa: “Macau”
  • Yiddish: “מאקאא”
  • Yoruba: “Màkáò”
  • Yoruba: “Màkáù”
  • Yue Chinese: “澳門”
  • Zhuang: “Aumwnz”
  • Zulu: “i-Macau”
  • “ma Omun”

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