The synonym Macao (Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China) generally refers to the Macao Special Administrative Region
Macao Special Administrative Region (English: Macao, Portuguese: Macao), referred to as "Macao", is located in the west of the the Pearl River Estuary in southern China. It is the land and water junction between the mainland of China and the South China Sea, adjacent to Guangdong Province, 60 kilometers away from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and 145 kilometers away from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. The Macao Special Administrative Region is composed of the Macao Peninsula and Taipa, the Second Island of Coloane and Cotai (the Cotai reclamation area), with a land area of 32.9 square kilometers. By the end of 2020, the total population was 683200， sports fitness .
Macao has been the territory of China since ancient times. In the 32nd year of the reign of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1553), the Portuguese were allowed to dock ships at the Macao wharf for trade by bribing local officials in Guangdong; In the 36th year of Jiajing (1557), the Portuguese entered and began to live in Macao; After the Opium War in the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1840), Portugal took advantage of the defeat of the Qing government and successively occupied Taipa Island and Coloane Island in the south of Macao. The Government of the People's Republic of China has always advocated a peaceful settlement of the issue of Macao through negotiations at an appropriate time. From June 1986 to March 1987, the Chinese and Portuguese government delegations reached an agreement after four rounds of talks, and formally signed a joint statement on the Macao issue in Beijing on April 13, 1987. On December 20, 1999, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao, and the Macao Special Administrative Region was officially established.
The Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) is a local administrative region directly under the Central People's Government, which implements the capitalist system. It is an international free port, a world tourism and leisure center, one of the four major gambling cities in the world, and one of the regions with the highest population density in the world. Its light industry, tourism, hotel industry and entertainment make Macao prosperous and prosperous, and become one of the developed and rich regions in the world. In 2021, the gross domestic product of the Macao Special Administrative Region will reach 239.4 billion Macao dollars
