Macao

Official Name: Macau - Special Administrative Region PRC
Area: 28.2 km2
Population: 490.0 thousand.
Official language: Cantonese, Portuguese, Mandarin
Major religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity
Time: +7 SEC, +6 SELCO
Currency: Pataca (MOP)

     Situated in the Pearl River estuary in South China Sea, 60 kilometers west of Hong Kong. They form the Macao peninsula and two islands taip and Coloane and the neighboring provinces of Guangxi-tung. In the territory of 23.5 km2 is about 450 000 people. Macau was also part of Chinese territory since ancient times. Formally became part of China in 3.stol.před nl, which was incorporated into the district Fani-Nan Prefecture chaj. Later he became part of the district Siang-san (the current city Jong-San). In 1553 Portuguese podplatili local government officials in Kvan-Tonga and obtained a permit to anchor in the port of Macao, and trade. In 1557 began to settle in the area. In the period following the Opium War r.1840 advantage of the weakness of the Portuguese Government of Qing Dynasty and seized neighboring taip and Coloane islands. In 1887 the Portuguese Government forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the draft treaty on Sino-Portuguese meeting and then after the Beijing Sino-Portuguese agreement which ustanovovala that "Portugal will administer Macao and neighboring areas for ever as any other territory it controlled." Since then, Portugal occupy Macao. Chinese people these underprivileged contract never been recognized. The result of long efforts of the government of the PRC for a modification of the state was in 1987 initialling Sino-Portuguese joint statement that the PRC 20.12.1999 restore its sovereignty over Macao. This is what has happened and the Chinese government as in the case of Hong Kong are also applied the principles of "one country, two systems," administration of Macao residents of Macao "and" high degree of autonomy.

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