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Historical Background,

Geographical and Natural

Features of the City

Macao, officially the Macao Special

Administrative Region of the People's
Republic of China, is a city on the western

side of the Pearl River estuary in southern
China and is 60 Km far away from Hong Kong

Special Administrative Region. The total land
area of Macao SAR is 32.9 km² (Macao

Cartography and Cadastre Bureau，2019).
Macao is a city with lower-mountain hill area,
the terrain is low and very few natural flats

(most of flats were created by the land
reclamation), as well as hills, are widely

distributed. The geographical composition of
the flora of Macao is dominated by tropical
plants, so cultivated plants by human also

belong to tropical plants.