When will Macau return to China?

Macao returned to the motherland on February 20th, 1999.

Macao Special Administrative Region (Macau in English and Macau in Portuguese), referred to as "Macau" for short, is the full name of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Special Administrative Region. It is located in the west of the Pearl River Estuary in the south of China, where the inland of China meets the South China Sea of China. It is adjacent to Guangdong Province, 60km away from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and145km away from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. The Macao Special Administrative Region consists of Macao Peninsula, Taipa Island, Luhuandao and Lu Chao, with a land area of 32.9 square kilometers.

Macao Special Administrative Region 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 light industry, tourism, hotels and casinos have made Macao prosperous and become one of the developed and wealthy regions in the world.

Climatic characteristics of Macao Special Administrative Region

The Macao Special Administrative Region is located in the subtropical zone, bordering the Asian continent in the north and the vast tropical ocean in the south. Winter is mainly affected by the cold continental high in the middle and high latitudes, with more northerly winds, cold and dry weather and less rainfall. Summer is mainly influenced by tropical weather system from the ocean, mainly blowing southwest wind, with high temperature, high humidity and abundant rainfall. Because the direction of Xia Feng is opposite in winter, the daily range is smaller than that of annual range, which belongs to the maritime monsoon climate.

The annual average temperature of the Macao Special Administrative Region is 22.6℃, and the lowest monthly average temperature of 1℃ is 15. 1℃. However, in most years, there will still be cold weather with the lowest temperature below 5℃, but the duration is generally short. The average monthly temperature above 22℃ is as high as 7 months, which shows that Macao is short in winter and long in summer. The Macao Special Administrative Region is often hit by typhoons. The typhoon season is from May to 65438+ 10 every year, and July to September is the month with the most typhoons.

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