Macau’s Special Administrative Region Of The Peoples Republic Of China
This evening I have spent some time looking at Macau, China. Macau is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of China, the other being Hong Kong. The SAR’s are regions of China that are capitalist in nature, enjoy strong economic links with the west and are governmentally and politically separate from the rest of China. The SAR’s have their own legal system, import and export rules and even their own driving rule system. This happens under China’s “One Country, Two Systems” principle which provides the two SAR’s with the ability to make their own decisions to a certain degree without the intervention or direction of China.
There has been a large influx of people moving to Hong Kong from the Chinese mainland. This has caused Hong Kong to consider independence from China.
Google Earth has some good shots of the general architecture of Macau.
13/11/2008, Google Earth Application, Search term: Macau China, Location: 22˚12’06.00″N 113˚32’39.56″E
The data on population density is pretty gripping stuff. For example Nottingham is only slightly less dense population wise than Tokyo:
462 Tokyo, Japan
population 34,250,000
Area in square miles 3,025
Density of population 11,300
474 Nottingham, UK
population 666,000
Area in square miles 61
Density of population 10,800
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