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There are one peninsula, one main island, and several small artificial islands in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The main island is located to the south of the Macau Peninsula and at the east of

Hengqin Island Hengqin (, pt, Ilha da Montanha) is an island in Zhuhai, a prefecture-level city and special economic zone in Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China. It has a population of about 3,000. Parts of Hengqin were leased to Macau by the ...

of the Pearl River (Zhujiang),

Guangdong Province Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. The island remains unnamed since its creation in the late 1990s, after the reclamation project of Cotai which filled up the channel between the islands of Coloane and Taipa. Historically, the unnamed island was under the administration of the Concelho das Ilhas, The Macau Peninsula was once an island on the

Pearl River Delta The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRD; ; pt, Delta do Rio das Pérolas (DRP)) is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. Referred to as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Mac ...

. It has linked to

Zhongshan Island Zhongshan Island, formerly also known as Macau Island
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as a result of sedimentation and became a

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

approx. two thousand years ago. Apart from this case, all of the Macanese former islands were merged either to the Macau Peninsula or the newly unnamed island directly or indirectly as the result of artificial

land reclamation Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

Peninsulas

* Macau Peninsula – itself a part of

Zhongshan Island Zhongshan Island, formerly also known as Macau Island
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* Monte Ká Hó, eastnortheastern part of Coloane * Coloane B Power Station * Taipa Ferry Terminal * Ilha Verde (former island)

Islands

Entirely

* Aterro da "Zona A" dos Novos Aterros Urbanos ( artificial island) * Aterro da "Zona C" dos Novos Aterros Urbanos (artificial island) * The island comprising Coloane, Cotai, and Taipa (main island) * The island containing the runway and taxiways of Macau International Airport (artificial island)

Partly

* Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge Island (artificial island) – the southern part of the island is a part of Macau, containing the Zhuhai-Macau Checkpoint

Leased

* Hengqin (formerly known as Dom João e Montanha of the Lapa, Dom João, and Montanha Islands) – a part of the island is under Macanese administration as per a 40-year lease signed on 27 June 2009 between the Government of Macau and the Chinese Central Government

Islets

* (artificial islet) * Islets in the Nam Van Lake * (artificial islet)

Former islands

Coloane Island Coloane (Cantonese: Lou Wan) is a former island in Macau that is united with the island of Taipa by an area of reclaimed land known as Cotai. It is located at the southern part of Macau. Administratively, the boundaries of the traditional civil pa ...

* Ilha Kai Kiong – connected to the apron of Macau International Airport, Taipa in 1995 * Ilha Verde – connected to the Macau Peninsula in 1895 when a

causeway A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Tra ...

(now Avenida do Conselheiro Borja) was built * Ilhéu das Lázaras – connected to the north-east of Coloane * Ilhéu de Macau-Siac – connected to the north-east of the Macau Peninsula in January 1921, during the landfilling works for Macau's Outer Harbour expansion * Macau Island * Pedra d'Areca * Taipa Island – was itself two smaller islands

References

External links

Macao Online Map
Government of Macau – Direcção dos Serviços de Cartografia e Cadastro (Cartography and Cadastre Bureau) {{Asia topic, List of islands of Macau Macau Peninsula Islands of Macau Islands of the South China Sea Macau