Macau
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Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區 |
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About the people | |||||
Official languages: | Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese | ||||
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Capital city: | n/a | ||||
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Politics / Government | |||||
Established: | December 20, 1999 | ||||
Leaders: | Chief Executive: Edmund Ho Hau-wah | ||||
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Pataca (MOP) | ||||
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Time zone: | +8 | ||||
Telephone dialing code: | +853 | ||||
Internet domain: | .mo |
The Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Macau or Macao Cantonese: Ou Mun) is one of the two Special Administrative Region in China. (The other one is Hong Kong). Macau is a small city in the southern coast in China. It consists of Macau Peninsula, Taipa Island, Coloane Island and Cotai, the new reclaimed land between Taipa and Coloane.
Beforehand, Macao was a colony of Portugal. Today, Macao mostly lives from offshore gambling
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