Which country ruled Macao before its return to China?

199965438+returned to China on February 20th, and was ruled by Portugal before.

Macau, the full name of People's Republic of China (PRC) Special Administrative Region, is located in the south of China, on the west bank of the Pearl River Delta. It borders Gongbei, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province in the north, faces Wanchai and Hengqin in Zhuhai City in the west, and faces Hong Kong and Shenzhen across the sea in the east. 60 kilometers apart, south of the South China Sea in China. It consists of Macao Peninsula, Taipa Island and Green Island, with a land area of 32.8 square kilometers. .

1553, the Portuguese obtained the right of abode in Macao. 1887, 12, 1, Portugal formally occupied Macao through the formalities of diplomatic documents. On February 20th, the China government resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao. After 100 years of cultural collision between the East and the West, Macao has become a unique city, leaving a lot of historical and cultural relics. On July 6th, 2005, Macao Historic District officially became a United Nations World Cultural Heritage.

Macao is an international free port, a world tourism and leisure center, one of the regions with the highest population density in the world, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world, and a capitalist system. Its famous light industry, tourism, hotels and casinos have made Macao prosperous and become one of the developed and wealthy regions in the world. In 20 17, Macao's GDP recorded 404.20 billion patacas.

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Colonial history

From 65438 to 0553, the Portuguese began to live in Macao. Although the Portuguese sought the right of abode of the Ming Dynasty in Macao from 1557, the Ming government still set up a yamen here, which was directly under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province.

It was not until 1887 that the Portuguese government and the Qing government signed the Draft Convention of the Sino-Portuguese Conference and the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Reconciliation and Trade (which expired in 1928), and formally occupied Macao through the formalities of diplomatic documents.

1622, the Dutch attacked Macao leased by Portugal from the Ming Dynasty and lost (the Battle of Macao).

At first, the Portuguese were confined to the south of Macao. 1623, the Portuguese government appointed Marcelo as the first governor of Macao. Macao is famous for its cultural exchanges between China and the West in history. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the spread of western learning to the east played an important role in this area and once had a great impact on the operation of the world economy.

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