Macau is a Special Administrative Region on the southern coast of China. It is located at the south of Guangdong Province,on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Zhujiang estuary on the east and the Xijiang on the west. 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.
Transport in Macau includes road,sea,rail and air transport. Road transport is the primary mode of transport within Macau,although a new rail system opened in December 2019 serving the areas of Taipa and Cotai. The main forms of public transport are buses and taxis.
Taipa is an area in Macau,connected to Coloane through the area known as Cotai,which is largely built from reclaimed land. Located on the northern half of the island,Taipa's population is mostly suburban. Administratively,the boundaries of the traditional civil parish Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do Carmo are mostly coterminous with that of the former Taipa Island,except for a portion of the parish that lies on the island of Hengqin (Montanha),housing the campus of the University of Macau.
The Regional Flag of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is light green with a lotus flower above the stylised Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge and water in white,beneath a circular arc of five golden five-pointed stars:one large star in the center of the arc with two smaller stars on each side of the large star,each with a point angled directly outward from the center of the common circle on which they lie.
The Municipality of Ilhas was one of the two municipalities of Macau,along with the Municipality of Macau. Its organs were the Municipal Council of Ilhas and the Municipal Assembly of Ilhas.
The Municipality of Macau was one of two municipalities of Macau,along with the Municipality of Ilhas.
The Governor Nobre de Carvalho Bridge,also known as the Macau–Taipa Bridge,is a dual-lane two-way bridge connecting Macau Peninsula near Casino Lisboa and the island of Taipa at the northern slope of Taipa Pequena crossing the former Baía da Praia Grande. It is the first bridge in Macau,to connect the peninsula and Taipa. It is locally known as "The Old Bridge".
The Amizade Bridge is a four-lane,two-way bridge in Macau that connects Macau Peninsula near the Reservatório and Taipa Island at Pac On.
The Sai Van Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located in Macau,it was inaugurated on December 19,2004. The bridge measures 2.2 kilometers (1.4 mi) long and is the third one to cross the Praia Grande Bay connecting Taipa Island and Macau Peninsula on Hsiang-shan Island. It features a double-deck design,with an enclosed lower deck to be used in the event of strong typhoons when the other three bridges connecting Taipa and Macau Peninsula,both of which are single-deck,namely Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho and Ponte de Amizade,are closed. It is the world's first prestressed concrete double-deck main beam cable-stayed bridge and the world's largest-span double-deck concrete bridge. The lower deck of the bridge also carries the Macau Light Transit System,which started revenue operation almost nineteen years later on 8 December 2023.
Cotai is a 5.2-square-kilometer (2.0 sq mi) piece of reclaimed land on the top of the Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau that has connected two independent islands since 2005. The name,which is a portmanteau of Coloane and Taipa,can also refer to the island formed by the reclamation. In the second sense,the Special Administrative Region of Macau now consists of the Macau Peninsula,plus Cotai Island,about a mile to the south.
The Macau Light Rapid Transit is a mass transit system in Macau and the first railway system of the city. The first phase of the project's construction began in February 2012,and the first section of the Taipa line was opened to the public on 10 December 2019. Barra extension of the line and two new branches of Seac Pai Van and Hengqin opened in 2023 and 2024.
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The Nam Van Lake is a man-made lake in Sé,Macau. It is one of two man made lakes in Macau. It is located at the southern end of Macau Peninsula.
Nei or Inner Lingding Island,formerly romanized as Lintin or Lin Tin Island, is an island in the Pearl River estuary in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong. Although it is located closer to the eastern shore of the estuary,it was until 2009 administratively part of the prefecture-level city of Zhuhai,whose main administrative center is located on the west shore of the river. The jurisdiction of Nei Lingding Island was handed over to Shenzhen in 2009.
Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do Carmo is a civil parish (freguesia) in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The major part of the freguesia is located in Taipa but it runs through to Hengqin Island in mainland China. The freguesia is named after the Our Lady of Carmel Church. It is the largest freguesia in Macau with an area of 7.9 square kilometres (3.1 sq mi).
The Macau New Urban Zone is a 7.3-square-kilometre (79,000,000 sq ft) piece of land currently under land reclamation in Macau,that has not yet been assigned to any of the freguesias.
JoséManuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho was a Portuguese army brigadier-general and colonial administrator. He served as the 121st Governor of Macau from 1966 to 1974.
Ocean station is a station on the Taipa line of the Macau Light Rapid Transit in Taipa,Macau. It is adjacent to the namesake Ocean Gardens,a large-scale residential development at the northwestern corner of Taipa island,as well as the southern approach of Sai Van Bridge.
