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contexts > geographicals > islands > Macau
... > social science subjects > geography > geographic features > landforms > islands > Macau
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Macau  

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  • Macau (Macao, Aomen), like its neighbor Hong Kong, is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China in the southern Guangdong province; it is heavily Buddhist, even though it was once an important locale for Christian missionaries. Although founded by the Portuguese as a colony in 1557, only around 3% of its population is currently Portuguese, with ethnic Chinese accounting for approximately 95% of its residents by the end of the 20th century. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Macau]

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