How to read Macao English?

Macao's English is Macao, and Portuguese is Macao.

The name Macao comes from Mazu. In the thirty-second year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1553), the Portuguese obtained the right of abode in Macau from the Guangdong local government in the Ming Dynasty, becoming the first Europeans to enter China. At that time, the Portuguese landed near Mazu Tempel and asked the local people about the place names here. Because it is next to Mazu Tempel, the locals answer Mazu, so Macau is named Macau (Portuguese transliteration of Mazu Tempel), and the mainland is often spelled Macau.

Macau, referred to as "Macau" for short, is the full name of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Special Administrative Region. It is located on the west side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China, where Chinese mainland meets the South China Sea. It is adjacent to Guangdong Province, 60 kilometers away from Hong Kong and 0/45 kilometers away from Guangzhou/KLOC. Macao consists of Macao Peninsula, Taipa Island and Luhuandao, with a land area of 32.9 square kilometers and a total population of 683,200 by the end of 2020.

1553, the Portuguese obtained the right of abode in Macao. 1887, 12, 1, Portugal formally occupied Macao through the formalities of diplomatic documents. The Central People's Government of People's Republic of China (PRC) resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao. The collision of eastern and western cultures for hundreds of years has made Macao 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 practices the capitalist system. It is an international free port, a world tourism and leisure center, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world and 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. In 20 19, Macao's GDP was 434.7 billion patacas.

Magmatic rocks in Macao are widely distributed, all of which belong to intrusive rocks, including intermediate-acid rocks, acid rocks, basic dikes and other rock types. The dyke rocks in Macao include pegmatite, basic rocks and chronological veins.

According to the geosyncline theory, the whole area, including Macao, belongs to the junction of the Jiangxi-Hunan-Guangxi-Guangdong fold belt and the southeast coastal fault fold belt of the South China fold system, and is an intermountain depression and delta basin dominated by fault depression. Geodetic survey shows that in the vertical direction of crustal movement, the basin and its two sides still follow the characteristics of neotectonic movement characterized by fault inheritance and differential fluctuation of fault blocks.