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Taipa is 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) south of the Macau Peninsula and east of the island of Hengqin, which forms a part of the adjacent Chinese city of Zhuhai.The Macau International Airport, University of Macau, Macau Jockey Club and Macau Stadium are all located in Taipa.
Taipa is a settlement on the southern side of Doubtless Bay in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 10 runs through it. It is the westernmost of the Taipa-Mangonui string of settlements, and separated from the others by the Taipa River .
Taiping Island, also known as Itu Aba, [note 1] and various other names, is the largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Current map of the Macau Special Administrative Region.To the west are the island of Hengqin and the peninsula of Wanzai.. Wanzai, Small Hengqin and Great Hengqin (Portuguese names: Lapa, Dom João and Montanha) are three islands located to the west of the Macau Peninsula and the Macau islands of Taipa and Coloane that were under Portuguese influence.
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. Historically, the unnamed island was under the administration of the Concelho das Ilhas, it is however now divided into the Coloane, Cotai, and Taipa districts. [clarify]
At the south, the peninsula is connected to Taipa Island by three bridges, the Friendship Bridge (Ponte da Amizade); the Macau-Taipa Bridge (Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho); and the Sai Van Bridge (Ponte de Sai Van). The longest axis extends 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) from the Border Gate to the southwestern edge, Barra (媽閣嘴).
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. Land reclamation in the 17th century made Macau into a peninsula, and a barrier gate was built to mark the separation between the peninsula and the mainland.
In 1966, residents of Taipa Island, sponsored by the Chinese communists, tried to obtain permission to build a private school. [12] Despite being granted a plot of land by the Portuguese authorities, Portuguese officials delayed the processing of the building permits, as they had not received any bribes from the residents of Taipa Island. [12]