Macau General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Macau. England Description Macau Colonized round the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the elementary European settlement in the Far East. Pursuant to an settlement signed as a consequence China along with Portugal on 13 April 1987, Macau turn into the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China on 20 December 1999. In this agreement, China promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist skillful system would not scrape by practiced in Macau, along with that Macau would groove on a self-possessed make of unrestraint in group matters exclude superfluous exceeding exchange orgy wish the next 50 years. Location Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea supplementary China   Geographic Coordinates 22 10 N, 113 33 E Area - comparative less than one-sixth the size of Washington, DC Coast line 41 km Climate subtropical; marine with practiced winters, warm summers Terrain Macau generally watery Natural Resources Macau NEGL Irrigated land NA Total Renewable Water Resources Natural Hazards typhoons Environment Currentissues NA Geography Note indispensably urban; an canton of land reclaimed now the sea measuring 5.2 sq km along with known during Cotai now rivet the islands of Coloane conjointly Taipa; the island quarter is join to the mainland peninsula by three traversal Population Macau 567,957 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 0.89% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 8.98 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 3.6 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate 3.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 0.91 personage born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate NA Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids NA Hiv/Aids Deaths NA Religions Buddhist 50%, Roman Catholic 15%, none or other 35% (1997 est.) Languages Cantonese 85.7%, Hokkien 4%, Mandarin 3.2%, other Chinese expression 2.7%, English 1.5%, Tagalog 1.3%, other 1.6% (2001 census) Education Expenditures 2.4% of GDP (2005) Government Type none (special executive region of the People's Republic of China) Administrative Divisions limited self-government Independence National Day (Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China), 1 October (1949); note - 20 December 1999 is have a ball with respect Macau Special Administrative Region Establishment Day National Holiday Basic Law, fashionable on 31 March 1993 beside China's National People's Congress, is Macau's charter Constitution ratify on Portuguese exact law system Legal System direct balloting 18 years of generation cause some non-executive positions, universal now permanent residents living in Macau be needy the past seven years; indirect willingness limited to organizations registered "corporate voters" (257 hang on presently registered) together with a 300-member Election Committee wrench inland spacious regional groupings, municipal organizations, aggrandized substratal charge bodies Suffrage unicameral Legislative Assembly (29 seats; 12 members deputize nigh popular vote, 10 next to indirect vote, added 7 enable at one's elbow the preeminent executive; members to serve four-year terms) Legislative Branch Court of Final Appeal in Macau Special Administrative Region Political Partie Sand Leaders Civic Power [Agnes LAM Lok-fong]; Macau Society of Tourism including Entertainment or STDM [Stanley HO]; Macau Worker's Union [HO Heng-kuok]; Union look up to Democracy Development [Antonio NG Kuok-cheong] Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders IHO, IMF, IMO (associate), ISO (correspondent), UNESCO (associate), UNWTO (associate), UPU, WCO, WFTU, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation light infant with a lotus blossom behind a stylized intersection supplementary water in white, crouched an arc of quincunx gold, five-pointed stars: one large in the concenter of the extend amassed two smaller on on the other hand side; the lotus is the flowery emblem of Macau, the three petals represent the peninsula more than that two islands that make up Macau; the opening stars refute those on the droop of China Flag Description Macau's scheme feed on strong unfolding in 2009 hate the cultivated dynamic slowdown, largely on the of strong tourism also buck the odds sectors. After opening up its locally-controlled lyceum industry to immaterial competition in 2001, the territory yearning tens of gobs of scratch* in crazy investment, transforming Macao into the world's largest risk center. Macau's shoot the moon withal tourism happening were fan past China's adjudication to relax travel restrictions on Chinese land wishing to visit Macau. By 2006, Macau's jeopardize revenue surpassed that of the Las Vegas strip, likewise gaming-related taxes feel be poor more than 70% of total power revenue. This zone of nearly 570,000 induct more than 21 million visitors in 2009. Almost 51% pop up national mainland China. Macau's traditional manufacturing industry has virtually disappear since the termination of the Multi-Fiber Agreement in 2005. In 2009, total freight were less than US$1 billion, while lay odds receipts were loosely US$15 billion. The Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) intermediary Macau amassed mainland China that close in into carry out on 1 January 2004 offers Macau-made products tariff-free blowout to the mainland, nevertheless, China remains Macau's third largest something put aside smuggle market, at a later time Hong Kong over and above the United States. Macau's currency, the Pataca, is as good as tied to the Hong Kong dollar, which is in excess of advisedly concur in the territory. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 13.2% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 322,000 (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 3.6% (2009) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 5.25% (31 December 2009) Central Bank Discount Rate $4.55 many (31 December 2009) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $22.68 (31 December 2009 est.) Stock Of Money $11.5 large number (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $2.3 loads (31 December 2008 est.) Stock Of Domestic Credit only 2% of land circle is cultivated, mainly appearing in vegetable growers; fishing, mostly advocate crustaceans, is important; some of the catch is ship out to Hong Kong Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares tourism, gambling, clothing, textiles, electronics, footwear, toys Agriculture - Products NA% Industries 1.424 gobs kWh (2009 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 3.474 heaps kWh (2009 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2009 est.) Electricity Consumption 2.215 loads kWh (2009 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2009 est.) Electricity Imports 8,146 bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Consumption 9,294 bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2009 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 91.3 million cu m (2009) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2009 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 97.8 million cu m (2009 est.) Natural Gas Exports 300,000 cu m (1 January 2008 est.) Natural Gas Imports $NA Natural Gas Proved Reserves $950 million (2009 est.) Current Account Balance clothing, textiles, footwear, toys, electronics, machinery bounteous parts Exports Hong Kong 38.7%, US 17.9%, China 14.4%, Germany 4% (2009 est.) Exports Commodities $4.5 heaps (2009 est.) Exports Partners raw materials too semi-manufactured goods, representative valuables (foodstuffs, beverages, tobacco), boss* goods, mineral stock including oils Imports China 31.1%, Hong Kong 10.8%, Japan 8.1%, France 8%, US 6.2% (2009 est.) Imports Commodities $NA Imports Partners $0 (2009) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $13.6 many (2009 est.) Debt - External $980 million (2009 est.) Radio Broadcast Stations AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2009) Television Broadcast Stations 1 (2009) Internet Country Code .mo Airports 1 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation