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Macau (semi-independent political entity) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 22 10 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 22.1667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 113 33 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 113.5500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Oldest European enclave in China. Macau was settled by the Portuguese in 1557. The name was derived from 14th century Ma Kwok temple; independence from China declared by Portuguese in 1849, recognized by Chinese in 1887; Portugal agreed in 1987 to return it to China in 1999; official languages are Portuguese and Cantonese. |
Names: |
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| Macau (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Macau (Portuguese)
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| Macau (Catalan)
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| Macau (Basque)
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| Macau (Aragonese)
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| Macau (German)
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| Macau (Breton)
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| Macau (Dutch)
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| Macau (Afrikaans)
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| Macau (Galician)
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| Macau (Icelandic)
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| Macau (Turkish)
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| Macau (Luxembourgish)
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| Macau (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Macau (Swahili (generic))
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| Macau (Ido)
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| Macao (C,V,English)
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| Macao (Maltese)
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| Macao (Vietnamese)
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| Macao (Indonesian)
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| Macao (Danish)
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| Macao (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Macao (Finnish)
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| Macao (Swedish)
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| Macao (Romanian)
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| Macao (Slovak)
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| Macao (Slovene)
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| Macao (Spanish)
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| Macao (Catalan)
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| Macao (German)
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| Macao (Czech)
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| Macao (Dutch)
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| Macao (French)
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| Macao (Italian)
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| Macao (Lithuanian)
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| Macao (Estonian)
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| Macao (Greenlandic)
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| Macao (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Macao (Norwegian)
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| Macao (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Macao Special Administrative Region of China (C,V)
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| Macau Special Administrative Region (C,V,English)
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| Macau, Região Administrativa Especial de (C,V,Portuguese,U,N)
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| Região Administrativa Especial de Macau (C,V,Portuguese)
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| Ao-men (C,V)
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| Aomen (C,V,Estonian)
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| Aomen Tebie Xingzhengqu (C,V)
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| Macao, Province of (C,O)
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| Province of Macao (C,O)
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| Província de Macau (C,O)
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| MAC (C,O,ISO3L)
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| MO (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO46 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| MC (C,O,FIPS)
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| Macanese (C,V)
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| i-Macau (C,U,O,Zulu)
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| Ma Cao (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Macáó (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Macao S.A.R (C,U,English)
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| Macao S.A.R., China (C,U,Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Macao S.A.R., Tseina (C,U,Welsh)
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| Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (C,U,English)
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| Macau - 澳门 (C,U,Galician)
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| Macau nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Makao (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Makao (Croatian)
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| Makao (Bosnian)
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| Makao (Latvian)
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| Makao (Slovak)
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| Makao (Esperanto)
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| Makao (Faroese)
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| Makao (Lithuanian)
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| Makao (Turkish)
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| Makaó (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Makaó (Icelandic)
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| Makáo (C,U,Northern Sami)
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| Makau (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Makau (Polish)
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| Makau (Basque)
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| Makau (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China (C,U,Portuguese)
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| Regiun d'administraziun speziala Macao, China (C,U,Romansh)
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| ମାକାଉ SAR ଚିନ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| ئاۋمېن (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ماكاو (C,U,Arabic)
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| מקאו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Макао (C,U,Serbian)
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| Макао (Macedonian)
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| Макао (Bulgarian)
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| Макао (Russian)
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| Макао (Ukrainian)
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| Макао (Belarusian)
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| Μακάου (C,U,Greek)
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| เขตบริหารพิเศษมาเก๊า (C,U,Thai)
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| 澳門 (C,U,Chinese)
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| 마카오 (C,U,Korean)
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| მაკაო (C,U,Georgian)
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| マカオ (C,U,Japanese)
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| มาเก๊า (C,U,Thai)
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| Макау (C,U,Serbian)
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| 澳门特别行政区 (C,U,Chinese)
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| Аомынь (C,U,Russian)
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| ماکائو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| မကာအို (C,U,Burmese)
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| 澳门 (C,U,Chinese)
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| مکاؤ (C,U,Urdu)
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| ম্যাকাও (C,U,Bengali)
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| મકાઓ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ມາເກົ້າ (C,U,Lao)
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| ማካዎ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ماکاو (C,U,Kurdish)
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| மகாவோ (C,U,Tamil)
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| ಮಖಾವ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| मकाओ (C,U,Hindi)
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| മക്കാവോ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ማካኡ (C,U,Amharic)
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| मकाऊ (C,U,Marathi)
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| མེ་ཀའོ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| मकावो (C,U,Nepali)
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| మాకావ్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| Μακάο (C,U,Greek)
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Macau (semi-independent political entity) (P) |
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Additional Parents: |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Macau (semi-independent political entity) |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Macau (semi-independent political entity) |
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Macau (semi-independent political entity) (P,H) |
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Place Types: |
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| semi-independent political entity (preferred, C) |
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from 1999 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| special territory (H) |
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since 1990 |
| overseas territory (H) |
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Portuguese, recognized in 1887 |
| dependent state (H) |
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Portuguese until 1999, when it was returned to China |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Macao Special Administrative Region of China.......... |
[VP] |
| ....................................................................... |
ISO Newsletter V-4 (2002) accessed 26 September 2007 |
| Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.......... |
[VP] |
| .............................................................................................................. |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1821275 |
| Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China.......... |
[VP] |
| .............................................................................................................. |
GeoNames online [n.d.] 1821275 |
| Regiun d'administraziun speziala Macao, China.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 1821275 |
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