macao

Proper noun capitalized: Macao

Macao

1. A city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong
   • Hong Kong, once a British colony, was transferred to Chinese rule in 1997. Referring to Hong Kong or Macao or any Chinese territory as anything other than part of China is a major offense to the Chinese government, which sanctions businesses that make the mistake. In the past several months, Gap...2019 October 7, Joe Vardon, “Daryl Morey, Joseph Tsai, the NBA and China: Why the repercussions of a tweet are about more than money”, in The Athletic (The Athletic section), New York, N.Y.: The New...
2. (historical) a former Portuguese colony in modern southern China between 1557 and 1999
   • It would be however a very acceptable thing if ſome curious Navigators would inform us, what tides or Currents are found at Macao, Quemoy, and other places on the Coast of China and on Formoſa ; it being moſt probable that this flood cometh out of the North Eaſt, alongſt the Coaſt of China, for...1684, Edm. Halley, “A Theory of the Tides at the Bar of Tunking”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume XIV, Oxford, →OCLC, page 687
   • Macao is a ſmall Iſland in the Bay of Quantung, a Province of China, at a little diſtance from it ; in which is a Town bearing the ſame Name, heretofore the moſt famous and wealthy Mart of the Portugueſes, and granted to them by the Chineſes ; but its Reputation is now a great deal leſs :[...]1701, Joan Luyts, Herman Moll, A System of Geography, Part the Second, London, →OCLC, page 52