Macau

"Macau, the Asian version of the city of Las Vegas, is now facing the time when Leni Loud commanded the Republic of Korea Army to conquer it as part of her plan to take back the mainland from the Chinese communists. I hate to regret this, but my friends are in there, and are worried when they hear the gunshots and explosions later on. It would be violent."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Sin City

Macau (/məˈkaʊ/), also spelled Macao and officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia. Macau is bordered by the city of Zhuhai in Mainland China to the north and the Pearl River Delta to the east and south. Hong Kong lies about 64 kilometres (40 mi) to its east across the Delta. With a population of 650,900 living in an area of 30.5 km2 (11.8 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world. A former Portuguese colony, it was returned to Chinese sovereignty on 20 December 1999.

Macau was administered by the Portuguese Empire and its inheritor states from the mid-16th century until late 1999, when it constituted the last remaining European colony in Asia.