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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Macau

• Time Zone: GMT/UTC +8
• Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
• Currency: Pataca (MOP$)
• Country Dialing Code: 853

Macau

Location
Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

Population
449,198 (July 2005 est.)

Regions
none (special administrative region of China)

Climate
subtropical; marine with cool winters, warm summers

Ethnic groups
Chinese 95.7%, Macanese (mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry) 1%, other 3.3% (2001 census)

Religions
Buddhist 50%, Roman Catholic 15%, none and other 35% (1997 est.)

Languages
Cantonese 87.9%, Hokkien 4.4%, Mandarin 1.6%, other Chinese dialects 3.1%, other 3% (2001 census)

Government type
limited democracy

Background
Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the first European settlement in the Far East. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and Portugal on 13 April 1987, Macau became the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 20 December 1999. China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be practiced in Macau, and that Macau will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.

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