The Municipality of Macau () was one of the two municipalities () of Macau, along with the Municipality of Ilhas.

Its organs, the Municipal Council of Macau () and the Municipal Assembly of Macau (), had been abolished. The law provided for their dissolution () became effective on 31 December 2001. The law also provided for the "extinction" () of the provisional municipalities ()

According to National Geographic, "Macau may never have existed if not for Tamão" where the Portuguese learned "how China, the Pearl River Delta, and the South China Sea worked". The settlement and Jorge Álvares "kickstarted a chain of events that ultimately spawned Macau". A large stone sculpture of Álvares stands in downtown Macau.

Former municipal organs

Following the handover of Macau to China on 20 December 1999, the municipal organs were renamed as Provisional Municipal Council of Macau () and the Provisional Municipal Assembly of Macau ().

The institutions were abolished on 31 December 2001 and replaced by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau the following day.

! 2013 Area (km<sup>2</sup>)

! 2013 Population

! Density (/km<sup>2</sup>)

|-

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| Nossa Senhora de Fátima (花地瑪)

| 3.2

| 237,500

| 74,218

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| Santo António (花王 / 聖安多尼)

| 1.1

| 129,800

| 118,000

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| São Lázaro (望德)

| 0.6

| 33,100

| 55,166

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| Sé (大)

| 3.4

| 52,200

| 15,352

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| São Lourenço (風順 / 聖老愣佐)

| 1.0

| 51,700

| 51,700

|}

Demographics

The population of the Macau Peninsula has been increasing rapidly for decades, particularly since the transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China. With 45,675 inhabitants/km<sup>2</sup>, Macau has one of the highest population densities of any urban area.

{|

|+ Population

|-

|1981 || 238,413

|-

|1991 || 342,548

|-

|1996 || 390,928

|-

|2001 || 388,647

|-

|2006 || 433,730

|-

|2011 || 469,009

|-

|2016 || 520,166

|-

|2017|| 520,700

|}

See also

  • Municipality of Ilhas

References

  • Law No. 17/2001 - Creation of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (in Chinese) (in Portuguese) - Dissolution of the Câmaras Municipal and Assembleias Municipal, and Establishment of Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais