Macau
Macau is a former Portuguese 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.Photo: Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Peninsula
The Macau Peninsula is the northern portion of China's Special Administrative Region of Macau.Taipa
Taipa is the centremost of the three main islands of China's Special Administrative Region of Macau.Destinations
Cotai
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
Cotai, also known as the Cotai 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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Photo: Melv L - MACASR, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Ruins of St. Paul
Photo: Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ruins of Saint Paul's are the ruins of a 17th-century Catholic religious complex in Santo António, Macau, China.
Grand Lisboa
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Lisboa is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in Sé, Macau.
Localities in the Area
Santo António
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Santo António is a civil parish in the western portion of the Macau Peninsula of Macau.
Gongbei Subdistrict
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Gongbei Subdistrict is a township-level division situated in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China.
Macau
- Type: City with 623,000 residents
- Description: special administrative region of China
- Languages: Chinese and Portuguese
- Neighbors: Guangdong and Zhuhai
- Categories: special administrative region, city-state, big city, human settlement, tourist destination, dependent territory and locality
- Location: East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.195° or 22° 11' 42" northLongitude
113.5478° or 113° 32' 52" eastPopulation
623,000Area
254 km² (98 miles²)Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Capital
MacaoCurrency
Pataca (MOP)Phone code
.moInternet domain
853Open Location Code
7PJM5GVX+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1939592594OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1821275Wikidata ID
Q14773Macau Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Makèë
- Afar: Makao
- Afrikaans: Macau
- Albanian: Makao
- Albanian: Makau
- Amharic: Macau
- Amharic: ማካኦ
- Amharic: ማካው
- Amis: Macau
- Angika: मकाउ
- Arabic: Macau
- Arabic: الماكاو
- Arabic: قائمة جزر ماكاو
- Arabic: ماكاو
- Arabic: ماكاو، الصين
- 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
- 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: ماکائۆ
- Chechen: Макао
- Cherokee: ᎹᎧᎣ
- Chinese: Ò-mn̂g
- Chinese: 中国澳门
- Chinese: 中國澳門
- 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: MAC
- Dutch: MO
- Dutch: Macao
- Dutch: Macau
- Dzongkha: མ་ཀའོ
- Dzongkha: མཀ་ཨའུ
- Egyptian Arabic: ماكاو
- English: Aomen
- English: MO
- English: Macao
- English: Macao S.A.R
- English: Macao SAR, China
- English: Macao SAR
- English: Macao Special Administrative Region
- English: Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- English: Macau SAR, China
- English: Macau SAR
- English: Macau Special Administrative Region
- English: Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- Esperanto: Makao
- Esperanto: Makao SAR
- Esperanto: Speciala Administra Regiono Makao
- Estonian: Aomen
- Estonian: Macau
- Ewe: Macau
- Ewe: Macau nutome
- Extremaduran: Macau
- Faroese: Makao
- Fiji Hindi: Macau
- Finnish: Macao
- French: Macao
- French: RAS de Macao
- French: RAS de Macao, Chine
- French: mo
- Gagauz: Makao
- Galician: Macau - 澳门
- Galician: Macau
- Gan Chinese: 澳門
- Gan Chinese: 澳门
- Georgian: მაკაო
- German: Aomen
- 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
- German: Sonderverwaltungszone Macao der Volksrepublik China
- German: Sonderverwaltungszone Macau
- German: Àomén
- Greek: Μακάο
- Greek: Μακάου
- Guianese Creole French: Makao
- Gujarati: મકાઉ
- Haitian: Makawo
- Hakka Chinese: Àu-mûn
- Hausa: Au-mùn
- 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: مَکاوو ایس اے آر چیٖن
- Kazakh: Аумын
- Kazakh: Макао
- Khmer: ម៉ាកាវ
- Kikuyu: Macau
- Kinyarwanda: Makawo
- Kirghiz: Макао
- Korean: 마카오
- Korean: 마카오 특별행정구
- Korean: 오문
- Korean: 오문특별행정구
- Kurdish: Makao
- Ladino: Makao
- Lao: Macau
- Lao: ມາກາວ
- 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
- Lojban: lo gugdemu'o
- Lombard: Macao
- Luxembourgish: Macau
- Macedo-Romanian: Macao
- Macedonian: Макао
- Madurese: Makau
- Maithili: मकाउ
- Malay: Macao S.A.R., China
- Malay: Macau
- Malay: Makau
- Malayalam: മക്കാവു
- Malayalam: മകൗ
- Maltese: Macao
- Maltese: Makaw
- Maltese: Reġjun Amministrattiv Speċjali tal-Macao
- Maltese: il-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
- Mongolian: ꯃꯀꯥꯎ
- Nepali: मकाउ
- Northern Frisian: Macau
- Northern Luri: ماکائو
- Northern Sami: Makáo
- Norwegian: Macao
- Norwegian Bokmål: Macao
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Polish: Makau
- Portuguese: Macau
- Portuguese: RAEM
- Portuguese: Região Administrativa Especial de Macau
- Portuguese: Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China
- Pushto: مکاو
- Quechua: Macao
- Quechua: Macau
- Romanian: Macao
- Romansh: Macao
- Russia Buriat: Макао
- Russian: Аомынь
- Russian: Макао
- Russian: Специальный административный район Аомынь
- Russian: Специальный административный район Макао
- Sakizaya: Macau
- Santali: ᱢᱟᱠᱟᱣ
- Sardinian: Macau
- Scots: Macau
- Scottish Gaelic: Macau
- Scottish Gaelic: Macàthu
- Serbian: Макао
- Serbian: Макау
- Serbo-Croatian: Makao
- Shan: မႃႇၵၢဝ်ႈ
- Shona: Makawo
- Sicilian: Macau
- Silesian: Makau
- Sindhi: ميڪائو
- Sindhi: مڪائو
- Sinhala: මකාවු
- Sinhala: මකාවෝ
- Sinhala: මැකාවු
- Slovak: Macao
- Slovak: Makao
- 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: మకావ్
- Tetum: Makau
- Thai: มาเก๊า
- Thai: เขตบริหารพิเศษมาเก๊า
- 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: Аоминь
- Ukrainian: Макао
- Urdu: مکاؤ
- Uzbek: Makao
- Venetian: Macao
- Vietnamese: Ma Cao
- Vietnamese: Macao
- Vietnamese: Ma cao
- Vietnamese: Áo Môn
- 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
- Aomen Tebie Xingzhengqu
- Macau, Brazilia
- Province of Macao
- Província de Macau
- ماکاو
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Macau. Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.