What does macau mean?

macau refers to Macau, China. In English, Macao is Macao, and in Portuguese, Macao is also Macao, and Macao is called Macao for short, and its full name is the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, which is located in the south of China. 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. 6 kilometers apart, south of China Nanhai.

Macao is an international free port, a world tourism and leisure center, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world, and also one of the regions with the highest population density in the world. Its famous light industry, tourism, hotels and casinos have made Macao prosperous and become one of the developed and wealthy regions in the world.

languages of Macao

the official languages of Macao are Chinese and Portuguese. In 21, 85.7% of the residents in Macao spoke Cantonese, 4% in Fujian dialect, 3.2% in Mandarin and 2.7% in other Chinese dialects. The population using Portuguese is .6%; The rest of the population use English (1.5%), Tagalog (1.3%) and other languages.

Macanese (Portuguese is called Ba Du) is a Macao dialect which is a mixture of Portuguese, Malay, Cantonese, English, ancient Portuguese and a little Dutch, Spanish and Italian. It was once a common language used by Portuguese natives in Macao, and it has almost disappeared. The last native Portuguese writer in Macau who wrote in Macau dialect was Joseph Santos Ferreira.