1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Macao
Compare this sourced profile of Macau, Macao before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Macau—649,335, Asia/Macau, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city and special administrative region of China.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Macau is GeoNames ID 1821274. Its recorded administrative path is Macao, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Macau occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-08-27; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Macau ranks 855 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Macao entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 471. Its 649,335 population value is 1.00 times the 649,335 median for the country cohort and 0.64 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Macau is rank 1 among the 1 selected Macao entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Macau's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Macau's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Zhuhai at 8.781 km with 2,207,090 recorded people; Zhongshan at 39.76 km with 3,841,873 recorded people; Tuen Mun at 48.661 km with 507,900 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 39.88 km. Compared with Zhuhai, Macau's recorded population is 0.29 times as large. Against Macau, Zhuhai follows Zhuhai Shi → Guangdong → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Macao, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Macau, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Macau's. Against Macau, Zhongshan follows Zhongshan Prefecture → Guangdong → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than Macao, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Macau, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is above Macau's. Against Macau, Tuen Mun follows Tuen Mun → Hong Kong in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Hong Kong cohort rather than Macao, uses Asia/Hong_Kong instead of Asia/Macau, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Macau's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 136 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Macau's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1821274, the coordinate pair 22.2006 / 113.5461, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 1790437 at 8.781 km bind Macau to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Macau's reference point is 22.2006° north and 113.5461° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Macau is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Macau's row carries neither a first- nor second-order administrative label in this source. Macau's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Macau's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Macau, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Macau's closest other entries in this atlas are Zhuhai (8.781 km), Zhongshan (39.76 km), Tuen Mun (48.661 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-08-27; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.