Meaning of Macau | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong.
2. a former Portuguese colony in modern southern China between 1557 and 1999.
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“Open⟳ 24 hours a day and seven days a week, Macau's 35 casinos entertain around 30 million visitors each year, making over 30 billion euros in revenue. These are figures which make⟳ the US gambling city of Las Vegas look⟳ like⟳ a desert village.[…] Macau is the only place⟳ in China where gambling is officially permitted. Until the end⟳ of 1999, the peninsula was a Portuguese colony. Since it was handed back to China, the city of 600,000 people located at the mouth of the Pearl River has been a largely autonomous Special Administrative Region (SAR).”

“At the height of the Covid wave⟳, some mainland residents ventured across the border⟳ to the Chinese territory of Macau to find⟳ foreign-made mRNA vaccines.”

“When you depart from Macau to ye other coaſt, you must put⟳ out at the Eaſt chanel, if the wind bee Northweſt, if not, then you cannot paſſe, that way, but you muſt ſayle thorough the ſouthweſt chanel, which is a good way to paſſe out, running from the point⟳ of Varella, right unto the land⟳ on the other ſide of Macau,[…]”

“SOuthward from the County of Quancheufu, lie⟳ many ſmall Iſlands in the Sea ; on one of which, being a little hanging Iſle, or rather a Rock, joyn'd to a great Iſland, lieth the City Makao, otherwiſe call'd Amacao, Machao, and Makau, poſſeſs'd by the Portugueſe, on a Promontory, ſo naturally Fortifi'd, that it is almoſt invincible.”

“Within 20 years, Macau had become⟳ an international city and one of the richest places on earth, thanks to investment in the cargoes shipped through the port.”

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