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	Macau - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau prospered as a port and was a subject of repeated attempts by the Dutch to conquer it in the 17th century.
		During the last periods of Portuguese rule, the peninsular (northern) district was administered by the Macau Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal de Macau), and the islands by the Islands Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal das Ilhas).
		Macau consists of a peninsula, and the islands of Taipa and Coloane.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /macau.htm (1696 words)

	Macau travel \| Lonely Planet World Guide
		Macau's pleasures are relaxed and laidback, architectural and atmospheric: narrow cobbled alleys, grand baroque churches, balconied colonial mansions, open plazas and Mediterranean-style cafes filled with palm-readers, caged birds and pipe-smokers.
		Macau is made up of two islands and a compact peninsula dangling off the Guangdong mainland into the South China Sea.
		Macau's hotels run the gamut from roach motels to luxury pads, with a sprawling mass of mid-range options in between.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /destinations/north_east_asia/macau (542 words)

	Transportation in Macau - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two highway bridges link Macau to Zhuhai, the most recent of which, the 1.3-kilometer-long, six-lane Lotus Bridge, opened in December 1999.
		The Macau Maritime Terminal is located on the east shore of the Macau Peninsula (Macau outer harbor).
		The Macau International Airport opened in December 1995 on reclaimed land on the east side of Taipa.
	www.free-definition.com /Transportation-in-Macau.html (348 words)

	Macau - Travel Guide
		Macau (also spelt:Macao) (Chinese: 澳門, Aomen) is a city located in southeast China, and was until 1999 administered by Portugal as an overseas territory.
		Besides the city itself, Macau includes the islands of Taipa and Coloane, which are connected by bridges and a causeway.
		That said, there are ambitions to turn Macau into a low-cost airline hub, and with cheap carriers like Air Asia now flying there from Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, some people do the reverse and fly to Macau to get to Hong Kong.
	www.visa-bulletin.com /travel-guide/index.php/Macau (505 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Regional Information - Asia - East Asia - Macau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau is comprised of the Macau Peninsular and its two islands south, Ilha da Taipa and Ilha de Coloane which are connected to the mainland via a series of specially constructed causeways and bridges.
		Officially Macau is an administrative region of China and can be found just short of Hong Kong to the north east and the South China Sea due south.
		Macau was the first country within Southeast Asia to be colonized, when the Portuguese took control in the 16th century.
	www.worldworx.tv /regional-information/asia/east-asia/macau (417 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Travel /2005/06/26/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The essence of Macau, an oddly compelling former Portuguese colony on China's southern coast, is engraved in the stone of its 400-year-old Sao Paulo Cathedral.
		Macau is the oldest continuous European settlement in Asia, and its longevity can be traced to this willingness to fuse East and West in an unlikely harmony.
		Macau is barely the size of Kailua, consisting of two hilly islands and a peninsula that clings to the Chinese mainland.
	starbulletin.com /2005/06/26/travel/story1.html (1215 words)

	AllRefer.com - Macau - Transportation And Communications \| Chinese Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Macau Maritime Terminal with the Macau-Taipa bridge in the background.
		Air Transportation: The Macau International Airport opened in December 1995 on reclaimed land on the east side of Taipa.
		Air Macau (established 1994 with 51 percent ownership by China) and more than twenty other airlines provide international flights to and from Taiwan (Taipei and Kaohsiung), Singapore, Manila, Bangkok, Pyongyang, Anchorage, and Los Angeles; and domestic flights to and from Beijing, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Kunming, Nanjing, Ningbo, Sanya, Shanghai, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi'an, and Zhengzhou.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/macau/macau6.html (676 words)

	Taipa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is 2.5 kilometres away from peninsular Macau and is east of the Lesser Hengqin Island of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province.
		It is also worth noting that, as the great majority of the population in Taipa and Macau is Chinese, most people refer to this island by its Chinese name "Tamzai", and most taxi drivers and bus drivers will not understand if asked how to go to "Taipa".
		Taipa is connected to the peninsular Macau by Nobre Governador Carvalho Bridge (嘉樂庇大橋 or 澳氹大橋, locally known as "Old Bridge") of 1974, Friendship Bridge (中葡友誼大橋 Ponte de Amizade) of 1994 and the newest Sai Van Bridge (西灣大橋) in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taipa (464 words)

	Asia Times
		Thus his arm bone went to Macau and was placed in the chapel named after him on Coloane, in a setting very much like a European hamlet.
		About the time of Macau's handover to China, Jesuit missionaries in Macau demanded the relic of their founding father and transferred it to St Joseph Seminary in peninsular Macau.
		Macau is preparing some historic and natural sites to seek inclusion on the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage list.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/EE09Ad02.html (924 words)

	Macau Topic Center - Travel to China
		Macau Law Macau law is broadly based on PortugalPortuguese law, and therefore part of the civil law tradition of continental European legal systems.
		Macau Security Force On December 20, 1999, the various police force branches of Macau, under the jurisdiction of Security and Justice departments, with the excep...
		University of Macau The University of Macau (Universidade de Macau, 澳門大學, formerly known as University of East Asia), was established in 198
	www.famouschinese.com /topic/Macau (739 words)

	Taipa Island. Who is Taipa Island? What is Taipa Island? Where is Taipa Island? Definition of Taipa Island. Meaning of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Taipa (Simplified: 氹仔島, Traditional: 凼仔岛; Pinyin: Dàngzǐ Dǎo, Jyutping: Tam5-zi2 Dou2, literally "Ditch") is an island of Macau in the People's Republic of China.
		It is 2.5 kilometres away from peninsular Macau and is west of the Lesser Hengqing Island (小横琴岛) of Zhuhai.
		It is connected to Coloane by the Estrada do Istmo (路氹公路 or 連貫公路), and to peninsular Macau by Nobre Governador Carvalho Bridge (嘉樂庇大橋 or 澳氹大橋, locally known as "Old Bridge") of 1974 and Friendship Bridge (中葡友誼大橋 Ponte de Amizade) of 1994.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Taipa_Island (228 words)

	Macau History - Macau Tourism and City Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau did not develop as a major settlement until the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century.
		During the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Macau served as an important center for Portuguese trade with China (primarily with Guangzhou), Japan, the Philippines, mainland and island Southeast Asia, Goa, and Mexico during the Ming (1368-1643) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.
		The Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau was signed in Beijing on April 13, 1987, setting the stage for the return of Macau to full Chinese sovereignty as a Special Administrative Region on December 20, 1999.
	www.olamacauguide.com /macau-history.html (1739 words)

	Macau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau's location is what the Chinese consider auspicious and fortuitous: it's just 38 miles across the mouth of the Pearl River to busy Hong Kong and only some 80 miles down stream from Guangzhou.
		Macau, a densely populated cosmopolitan city of some 455,000 (95 percent Chinese and 5 percent Portuguese and others), occupies a small peninsula and a couple of offshore islands on the southeast coast of mainland China.
		Perhaps Macau's greatest contribution to the blending of East and West is its superb Portuguese and Macanese cuisine.
	www.hawaii-island.com /travel/favorite.htm (1790 words)

	Coloane
		Coloane (Simplified: 路環島, Traditional: 路环岛, Pinyin: Lùhuán Dǎo, Jyutping: Lou6-waan4 Dou2, literally "Road Ring") is an island of Macau in the People's Republic of China.
		South of Taipa (connected to it by the 2.2-km land-fill bridge, the Estrada do Istmo) and west of Greater Hengqing Island (大横琴岛) of Zhuhai, Coloane is 5.6 from peninsular Macau.
		Eastern and central Coloane is the highest part of Macau, with the highest point being the 171-metre Zhongdie Shitang Mountain (中疊石塘山).
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/c/co/coloane.html (203 words)

	Macau Travel Talk Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau SAR Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Chui Sai On addressed MGTO representatives from 14 countries and regions at the opening of MGTO’s Marketing Meeting 2004 in June.
		Macau’s public and private sector leaders attended the First Pan-PRD Regional Economic and Trade Cooperation Fair in Guangzhou in July, to boost ties between nine Guangdong provinces, and two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau (also known as 9....
		Representatives from the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism and senior officials from the tourism and MICE industries arrived in Macau July 26 to study current trends in Macau tourism and MICE facilities.
	www.macautourism.gov.mo /news/mttlist.phtml?lan=en&year=2004&month=8 (780 words)

	Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Macau Special Administrative Region has an area of 23.8 sq km which includes the Macau Peninsular (connected to Continential China by an isthmus) and the islands of Taipa and Coloane.
		Two bridges connect Macau to Taipa (one of them is 2.5 km long and the other is 4.5km long).
		The longest one directly serves the Macau international Airport locate in the island of Taipa.
	www.hkolympic.org /article/articles_archive_view/44 (183 words)

	Macau - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau (also spelt:Macao) (Chinese: 澳門, Aomen) is a city located in southeast China, and was until 1999 administered by Portugal as an overseas province.
		Macau has an international airport off the shore of Taipa Island, but it's probably easier to just fly into Hong Kong and take the boat (takes one hour from Hong Kong to Macau by jetfoil from Shun Tak Terminal, Hong Kong.
		It takes about 15min from Macau to Coloane Island by car if no traffic jam) - delicious food in a homely atmosphere.
	wikitravel.org /en/Macau (630 words)

	Transportation in Macau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		About 150 trips per day are made between Macau and Hong Kong.
		Airports:1 (1999 est.) Airports - with paved runways: Macau International Airport
		The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/transportation_in_macau.html (379 words)

	Coloane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		South of Taipa (connected to it by the 2.2-km land-fill bridge, the Estrada do Istmo)and west of Greater Hengqing Island (大横琴岛) of Zhuhai,Coloane is 5.6 from peninsular Macau.
		Eastern and central Coloane is the highest part of Macau, with the highest point being the 171-metre ZhongdieShitang Mountain (中疊石塘山).
		The northern shore of the island is 4.5 deep, and will be the siteof the Macau Deepwater Port.
	www.therfcc.org /coloane-113370.html (194 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Transportation And Communications - Macau
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		If you did not find the information you were looking for on the subject of Transportation And Communications you may wish to do another search of Exploitz.com: related Transportation And Communications search
		A good starting point for researching Macau for travel or reference.
	www.exploitz.com /Macau-Transportation-And-Communications-cg.php (664 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Macau Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		May 30th, 2004 08:09 AM The third bridge - connect from Macau Tower to Macau stadium in Taipa, 6 lanes, a 4 lines tunnel and a lightrail line will be includes.
		June 12th, 2004 04:59 AM Roads and Bridges: Macau has 321 kilometers of public roads.
		The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (港珠澳大橋) is a giant bridge that will connect the west side of Hong Kong with Macau and the neighbouring city of Zhuhai, situated on the west side of the Pearl River Delta, and part of mainland China's southern industrial powerhouse.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /printthread.php?t=108308 (737 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Taipa
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		It is 2.5 kilometres away from peninsular Macau and is east of the Lesser Hengqin Island of Zhuhai.
		It is connected to Coloane by the Estrada do Istmo (路氹公路 or 連貫公路), and to peninsular Macau by Nobre Governador Carvalho Bridge (嘉樂庇大橋 or 澳氹大橋, locally known as "Old Bridge") of 1974, Friendship Bridge (中葡友誼大橋 Ponte de Amizade) of 1994 and the newest Sai Van Bridge (西灣大橋) in 2004.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Taipa (517 words)

	"A cornucopia of different flavors" on historic Mong Ha Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of Macau's most delightful restaurants could also be one of its best-kept secrets.
		Word of mouth seems to be the main reason for the popularity of the restaurant at the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT), which is far from the beaten tourist track atop Mong Ha hill in the north-central part of peninsular Macau.
		Attractive surroundings, delicious food, excellent service and reasonable prices add up to an experience that brings people back again and again for more.
	www.macautourism.gov.mo /news/mttdetail.phtml?lan=en&id=2698 (329 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Macau Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The second bridge (New Macau Taipa Bridge) - Built in 1994 and 4 lanes
		The third bridge - connect from Macau Tower to Macau stadium in Taipa, 6 lanes, a 4 lines tunnel and a lightrail line will be includes.
		is a giant bridge that will connect the west side of Hong Kong with Macau and the neighbouring city of Zhuhai, situated on the west side of the Pearl River Delta, and part of mainland China's southern industrial powerhouse.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=108308 (875 words)

	Macau - travel guide, holidays in Macau - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macau - travel guide, holidays in Macau -
		Travel guide and holidays A web travel guide for your holidays, have a nice visit !
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	www.did-you-mean.com /travel/Macau (741 words)

	Spa Peninsular Hotel Phuket - Guaranteed Lowest room rates available now for the Spa Peninsular Hotel Phuket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Spa Peninsular Hotel Phuket - Guaranteed Lowest room rates available now for the Spa Peninsular Hotel Phuket
		pa Peninsular Hotel is a charming boutique hotel overlooking Kata Beach, famed for being home to the annual King's Cup Regatta and one of the more popular west coast beaches on the island.
		The Special Discount Rate for this Hotel is not available at the moment, but we can recommend the following alternate hotels:
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