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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The Macau is the northern portion of 's Special Administrative Region of Macau. Its 8.5 square km is almost totally built up, making it the most urbanized and populous district in the territory.

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is the centremost of the three regions of Macau. is situated between the and island but is now joined with Coloane by , which was reclaimed from the sea.

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is the southern-most island of Macau. It used to be separated from to the north but the two are now joined by the reclaimed land of the to form one huge island.

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, also known as the Strip, is advertised as the "Las Vegas Strip of the East", and not without reason: it houses huge hotels and casinos, upscale shopping, sports facilities, golf courses and more.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruins of St. Paul and Grand Lisboa.

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The Ruins of Saint Paul's are the remnants of a 17th-century Catholic religious complex in , Macau. They include what was originally St. Paul's College and the Church of St.

Casino
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is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in , Macau. It is owned and operated by Sociedade de Jogos de Macau and was designed by architects Dennis Lau and Ng Chun Man with the interiors created by Khuan Chew, Design Principal of KCA International.

Buddhist temple
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The A-Má Temple is a temple to the Chinese sea-goddess Mazu located in , Macau, . Built in 1488, the temple is one of the oldest in Macau and thought to be the settlement's namesake.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nossa Senhora de Fátima and Santo António.

Suburb
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is the northernmost and largest civil parish in the of Macau. It has an area of 3.2 square kilometers and a population of 126,000, which constitutes about 40.3% of the peninsula's landmass and one-third of the population.

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is a civil parish in the western portion of the of Macau. It has the highest population density in Macau. This parish was one of five in the former Municipality of Macau, one of Macau's two municipalities that were abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No.

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is a township-level division situated in Xiangzhou District, , , .

Macau

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
.mo
Internet domain
853
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”
  • Albanian: “Makau”
  • Amharic: “ማካኦ”
  • Amharic: “ማካው”
  • Amis: “Macau”
  • Angika: “मकाउ”
  • Arabic: “الماكاو”
  • Arabic: “قائمة جزر ماكاو”
  • Arabic: “ماكاو، الصين”
  • Arabic: “ماكاو”
  • Arabic: “مكاو”
  • Arabic: “منطقة ماكاو الإدارية الخاصة”
  • Aragonese: “Macau”
  • Armenian: “Աոմին”
  • 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: “Ò-mn̂g”
  • Chinese: “中华人民共和国澳门特别行政区”
  • Chinese: “中国澳门”
  • Chinese: “中國澳門”
  • Chinese: “中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區”
  • Chinese: “澳門”
  • Chinese: “澳門特別行政區”
  • Chinese: “澳門特區”
  • Chinese: “澳门”
  • Chinese: “澳门特别行政区”
  • Chinese: “澳门特区”
  • Chinese: “馬交”
  • Chinese: “马交”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “Speciale Administratieve Regio Macau van de Volksrepubliek China”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ཀའོ”
  • Dzongkha: “མཀ་ཨའུ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماكاو”
  • Esperanto: “Makao SAR”
  • Esperanto: “Makao”
  • Esperanto: “Speciala Administra Regiono Makao”
  • Estonian: “Aomen”
  • Estonian: “Macau”
  • Ewe: “Macau nutome”
  • Ewe: “Macau”
  • Extremaduran: “Macau”
  • Faroese: “Makao”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Macau”
  • Finnish: “Macao”
  • Finnish: “Macaon Kiinan kansantasavallan erityishallintoalue”
  • French: “Macao”
  • French: “mo”
  • French: “RAS de Macao, Chine”
  • French: “RAS de Macao”
  • Gagauz: “Makao”
  • Galician: “Macau”
  • Gan Chinese: “澳門”
  • Gan Chinese: “澳门”
  • Georgian: “მაკაო”
  • German: “Aomen”
  • German: “Àomén”
  • German: “CN-92”
  • German: “Macao”
  • German: “Macau”
  • German: “Makao”
  • German: “Makau”
  • German: “Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China”
  • German: “Sonderverwaltungszone Macao der Volksrepublik China”
  • German: “Sonderverwaltungszone Macao”
  • 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: “Macau”
  • Indonesian: “Makao”
  • Indonesian: “Makau”
  • Interlingua: “Macao”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒪᑲᐅ”
  • Irish: “Macao”
  • Irish: “Macau”
  • Italian: “Macao”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Makow”
  • Japanese: “マカウ”
  • Japanese: “マカオ”
  • Japanese: “マカオ特別行政区”
  • Japanese: “中華人民共和国マカオ特別行政区”
  • Japanese: “中華人民共和国澳門特別行政区”
  • Japanese: “中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區”
  • Japanese: “東洋のラスベガス”
  • Japanese: “澳門”
  • Japanese: “澳门”
  • Japanese: “馬交”
  • 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 특별행정구”
  • Korean: “마카오”
  • Korean: “오문”
  • Korean: “오문특별행정구”
  • 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”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬交、濠江”
  • 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”
  • Maltese: “Makaw”
  • Maltese: “Reġjun Amministrattiv Speċjali tal-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: “RAEM”
  • 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”
  • Romansh: “Macao”
  • Russia Buriat: “Макао”
  • Russian: “Аомынь”
  • Russian: “Макао”
  • Russian: “Макъ као”
  • Russian: “Специальный административный район Аомынь”
  • Russian: “Специальный административный район 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”
  • Sinhala: “මැකාවු”
  • Slovak: “Macao”
  • Slovak: “Makao”
  • Slovenian: “Aomen”
  • Slovenian: “CN-92”
  • Slovenian: “Macao”
  • Slovenian: “Makav”
  • Somali: “Makaaw”
  • Somali: “Makaw”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماکائو”
  • Southern Altai: “Макао”
  • Spanish: “Macao”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Macao”
  • Sundanese: “Makau”
  • Swahili: “Macau”
  • Swahili: “Makau”
  • Swedish: “Macao”
  • Tagalog: “Macau”
  • Tagalog: “Makaw”
  • Tajik: “Аомин”
  • Tajik: “Макао”
  • Talysh: “Makau”
  • Tamil: “மகாவ்”
  • Tamil: “மகௌ”
  • Tamil: “மக்காவு”
  • Taroko: “Macau”
  • Tatar: “Макао”
  • Telugu: “మకావు”
  • Telugu: “మకావూ”
  • Telugu: “మకావ్”
  • Tetum: “Makau”
  • Thai: “เขตบริหารพิเศษมาเก๊า”
  • Thai: “มาเก๊า”
  • Tibetan: “མེ་ཀའོ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ማካው”
  • Tigrinya: “ማካዎ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Makau”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Makau”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Macau”
  • Turkish: “Macau”
  • Turkish: “Makao”
  • Turkmen: “Makao”
  • Tyap: “Ma̱ka̱u”
  • Uighur: “ئاۋمېن”
  • Ukrainian: “Аомень”
  • Ukrainian: “Аоминь”
  • Ukrainian: “Макао”
  • Urdu: “مکاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Makao”
  • Venetian: “Macao”
  • Vietnamese: “Áo Môn”
  • Vietnamese: “Ma Cao”
  • 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 Maka”
  • “ma Omun”
  • “MAC”
  • “Macao”
  • “Macau, Brazilia”
  • “MO”
  • “Q14773”

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