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Macau is situated 60 km (37 mi) west of Hong Kong, and 145 km (90 mi) southwest of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. It is situated immediately east and south of Zhuhai. The region comprises the Macau Peninsula and the islands of Taipa and Coloane. Macau was once an island but gradually a connecting sandbar turned into a narrow isthmus.
Macau [e] or Macao [f] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about 710,000 people [12] and a land area of 32.9 km 2 (12.7 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world.
The Macau Special Administrative Region [1] of the People's Republic of China – one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and facing the South China Sea in the east and south. [2]
Populated places in Macau (2 C, 2 P) S. Squares in Macau (3 P) ... Pages in category "Geography of Macau" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
This is a list of 'national capitals, ordered according to total area'. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics.The area of the capital city only includes the area occupied by the city and not the wider urban/metropolitan district or administrative division created solely for the city.
The Macau Peninsula is the historical and most populous part of Macau.It has an area of 8.5 square kilometers (3.3 sq mi) (4 by 1.8 kilometers (2.5 mi × 1.1 mi)) and is geographically connected to Guangdong Province at the northeast through an isthmus 200 meters (660 ft) wide.
The main island is located to the south of the Macau Peninsula and to the east of Hengqin Island of the Pearl River (Zhujiang), Guangdong Province, China. The island has remained unnamed since its creation in the late 1990s, after the reclamation project of Cotai , which filled up the channel between the islands of Coloane and Taipa .
Map of the Macau Peninsula, 1635.. During the age of discovery Portuguese sailors explored the coasts of Africa and Asia. The sailors later established posts at Goa in 1510, and conquered Malacca in 1511, driving the Sultan to the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula from where he kept making raids on the Portuguese.