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Fisherman's wharf, Macau
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Macau Travel Guide
Key Facts
Area:
28.6 sq km (11 sq miles).
Population:
531,000 (2007).
Population density:
18,566 per sq km.
Capital:
Macau.
Government:
Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since 1999.
Head of government:
Chief Executive Fernando Chui since 1999.
Electricity:
Usually 220 volts AC, 50Hz.
Macau's historic centre was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site list in 2005, underlining its strategic and cultural importance over centuries. The mixture of colonial Portuguese architecture sits beautifully alongside its East-Asian flair.
Parts of Macau offer serenely traditional countryside, ancestral Chinese villages and pine-forested hills. Much of 'old' Macau is preserved on its islands, Taipa and Coloane, including fishing boat building yards, colonial mansions, Chinese temples and floating fisherfolk communities. Yet Macau is now famed for enticing visitors with its glitzy new Vegas-style casino resorts, both on the Macau peninsula and on the still under-construction Cotai Strip, a sliver of reclaimed land joining the islands of Taipa and Coloane.
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