City of Macao

Macao (Portuguese Macau, English Macao), referred to as "Australia", the full name of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, license plate Guangdong Z. Portugal illegally occupied Macao on December 1, 1887, and officially returned to the motherland on December 20, 1999.
Located in the south-central part of Guangdong Province, China, on the west bank of the Pearl River Delta. It borders Zhuhai City of Guangdong Province in the north, and Wanchai and Hengqin in Zhuhai City in the west, and Hong Kong and Shenzhen across the sea in the east. 60 kilometers apart, south of China's South China Sea. It consists of the Macao Peninsula and the two islands of Taipa and Luhuan. The land area is 32.8 square kilometers and the total population is 656,000 (as of March 2018).
In 1553, the Portuguese obtained the right to reside in Macao. On December 1, 1887, Portugal officially occupied Macao through the formalities of diplomatic documents and turned it into a colony. On December 20, 1999, the Chinese government resumed exercising sovereignty over Macao. After more than 100 years of collision between East and West cultures, Macao has become a unique city with a lot of historical and cultural relics. The historic city of Macau officially became the UN World Cultural Heritage on July 15, 2005.