Portas do Cerco
The Portas do Cerco is an area in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau, China. Located on the northern tip of the Macau Peninsula, it is known by the Barrier Gate separating Macau from mainland China.Photo: Alanmak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Quarter
- Description: building in People’s Republic of China
- Also known as: “關閘 Portas do Cerco”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Macau Federation of Trade Unions Workers‘ Stadium and St. Joseph the Worker Church.
Macau Federation of Trade Unions Workers‘ Stadium
Recreation area
Photo: LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Macau Federation of Trade Unions Workers‘ Stadium is a recreation area.
St. Joseph the Worker Church
Church
Photo: Whhalbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St. Joseph the Worker Church is a church in Macau, China; It is part of the freguesia of Our Lady of Fatima, in the district Iao Hon. Begun in 1998, it was completed in 1999.
Zhuhai
Railway station
Photo: Lauheungfai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zhuhai railway station, also known as Gongbei station, is an elevated station of the Guangzhou–Zhuhai intercity railway. It is located in the Gongbei Subdistrict of Xiangzhou in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, beside the Gongbei Port and parallel to the border between mainland China and Macau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toi San and Iao Hon.
Toi San
Quarter
Photo: Saber568438, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Toi San is a densely populated urban district located in the northern part of the Macau Peninsula, within the parish of Nossa Senhora de Fátima. It is one of the key residential and commercial neighborhoods in Macau, known for its proximity to the Border Gate and the adjacent Areia Preta and San Kio areas.
Nossa Senhora de Fátima
Suburb
Photo: Slleong, Public domain.
Nossa Senhora de Fátima is the northernmost and largest civil parish in the Macau Peninsula 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 land mass and one-third of the population.
Portas do Cerco
- Categories: city gate, border checkpoint, cultural heritage, and locality
- Location: Macau, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.21467° or 22° 12′ 53″ northLongitude
113.54893° or 113° 32′ 56″ eastOpen location code
7PJM6G7X+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 6240932899OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterWikidata ID
Q3272047
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Portas do Cerco” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “关闸”
- Chinese: “關閘”
- Chinese: “關閘廣場”
- Chinese: “關閘邊檢大樓”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورتاس دو سيركو”
- French: “Portas do Cerco”
- Hebrew: “פורטס דו סרקו”
- Japanese: “ボーダーゲート”
- Japanese: “関閘”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portas do Cerco”
- Norwegian: “Portas do Cerco”
- Portuguese: “Portas de Macau”
- Portuguese: “Portas do Cerco”
- Portuguese: “Posto Fronteiriço da Portas do Cerco”
- Russian: “Портас-ду-Серку”
- Spanish: “Portas do Cerco”
- Yue Chinese: “關閘”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 關閘總站 Portas do Cerco/ Terminal and 關閘總站 Portas do Cerco/ Terminal.
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