Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- none
- Region
- Asia, Eastern Asia
- Population
- 685,900 (2025)
- Area
- 33 km²
- Currency
- Macanese pataca (MOP)
- Languages
- Chinese, Portuguese
- Calling code
- +853
- Internet domain
- .mo
- ISO codes
- MO, MAC, 446
- Time zone
- UTC+8:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Macau covers about 33 square kilometres. By area it ranks 242nd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Sint Maarten and a little larger than Tuvalu. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: China. Its centre lies at about 22° north, 114° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 685,900 people live in Macau (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 169th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 20,785 people to each square kilometre. About 100 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 83 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Chinese, Portuguese. A person from Macau is called Macanese.
Money and economy
The currency is the Macanese pataca (code MOP, symbol P). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 52.1 billion (2025), which is about US$ 75,902 for each person (2025).
Time
Macau uses one time zone, UTC+8:00 (Asia/Macau). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Macau | 649,335 |
| Taipa | 112,051 |
| Sé | 52,200 |
| Luhuan | 36,384 |
| Zhuojiacun | 24,000 |
| Lai Chi Van | 22,125 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Eastern Asia
Hong Kong, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.