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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| Official languages: | Portuguese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese | ||||
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| Established: | December 20, 1999 | ||||
| Leaders: | Chief Executive: Edmund Ho Hau-wah | ||||
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| Currency: (Name of money) | 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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