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Macau

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About Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of China. It consists of the Macau Peninsula, the islands of Taipa and Coloane, the Cotai reclamation zone between Taipa and Coloane, and several smaller islets. It borders Zhuhai to the north and west, and it lies west of Hong Kong, separated by the Pearl River estuary. With a population of about 720,000 people and a land area of 32.9 square kilometres (12.7 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world.

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All the old London buses went to Macau. About 10 years ago, if you went on a bus in Macau, they were old London buses.

from No Such Thing As An Earwig Family Zoom Chat, 2020-06-12 at 00:12:14 · read transcript

Other times Macau came up

  1. Quite a lot more members, actually. It's got 17 more members than the UN. Most of these members are tiny little colonies like American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Curacao, Faroe Islands, Guam, Hong Kong is a member of FIFA, Macau, Montserrat, New Caledonia, Palestine is a member of FIFA, but not of the UN. Of course, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales.

    17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 · listen

  2. I think it does, and if not, it's in the top two. I read that they've got, and these figures are a couple of years old, 771 cars per thousand citizens. It's a bit more than that now. So that sounds like a lot. It's a lot. Considering how many citizens there are, or how few citizens there are. It's the second most populated country on Earth, I think. No, sorry. It's the second problem. It's China.

    No Such Thing As A Millipede Embassy, 2016-01-08 · listen

  3. I read that they've got, and these figures are a couple of years old, 771 cars per thousand citizens. It's a bit more than that, though. OK, so that sounds like a lot. It's a lot. Considering how many citizens there are or how few citizens there are. It's the second most populated country on Earth, I think. Most sorry. It's the second most populated country on Earth, I think.

    95: No Such Thing As A Millipede Embassy, 2016-01-08 · listen

  4. Presumably all 193 of them. He must have been annoyed when South Sudan was founded. Yes. Whenever there's a new one, he must be like, oh, for God's sake, he picks up his cross. Do we know if he takes a position on places like Taiwan and Macau? Or micronations, yeah. I don't know that. Has you visited all those tiresome former oil rigs off the edge of the British coast?

    No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 · listen

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