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Peninsula

The Macau Peninsula is the northern portion of 's Special Administrative Region of . 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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  • Type: peninsula
  • Description: the most populous and historic part of Macau, with an area of 8.5 km²; geographically connected to Guangdong province at the northeast through an isthmus 200 m wide
  • Also known as: “Macao” and “Macau Peninsula”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruins of St. Paul and Grand Lisboa.

Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ruins of Saint Paul's are the remnants of a 17th-century Catholic religious complex in , . They include what was originally St. Paul's College and the Church of St.

Casino
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in , . 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
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The A-Má Temple is a temple to the Chinese sea-goddess Mazu located in , , . 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 Taipa and Nossa Senhora de Fátima.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the centremost of the three regions of . is situated between the Peninsula and island but is now joined with Coloane by , which was reclaimed from the sea.

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

Suburb
Photo: Marlinjuice, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a civil parish in the western portion of the Macau Peninsula of . It has the highest population density in . 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.

Peninsula

Latitude
22.198° or 22° 11′ 53″ north
Longitude
113.546° or 113° 32′ 46″ east
Open location code
7PJM5GXW+69
Wiki­data ID
Q1334373
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Peninsula” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة ماكاو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Makao yarımadası”
  • Chinese: “Ò-mn̂g Poàn-tó”
  • Chinese: “澳門半島”
  • Chinese: “澳门半岛”
  • Czech: “Poloostrov Macao”
  • Dutch: “Macau”
  • Esperanto: “Makaa Duoninsulo”
  • Estonian: “Macau poolsaar”
  • French: “Île de Macao”
  • French: “péninsule de Macao”
  • French: “Péninsule de Macao”
  • Hebrew: “מקאו/חצי האי מקאו”
  • Iban: “Semenanjung Makau”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Macao”
  • Japanese: “マカオ半島”
  • Korean: “마카오반도”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ó̤-muòng Buáng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ò-mn̂g Poàn-tó”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Macaohalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Macaohalvøya”
  • Polish: “Makao”
  • Polish: “Makau”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Makao”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Makau”
  • Portuguese: “Peninsula de Macau”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Macau”
  • Portuguese: “Península”
  • Russian: “Макао”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula de Macao”
  • Spanish: “Península de Macao”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรมาเก๊า”
  • Turkish: “Makao Yarımadası”
  • Uighur: “ئاۋمېن يېرىم ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Макао”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Ma Cao”
  • Yue Chinese: “澳門半島”

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