Our Lady of Fatima Parish
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Traditional Chinese: | 花地瑪堂區 | ||||||||||
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Portuguese: | Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima[Listen ] |
Our Lady of Fatima Parish (Portuguese: Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima) is the northernmost and largest parish in Macau Peninsula, Macau. It has an area of 2.7 square kilometers (1.0 sq mi) and a population of 126,000, which constitutes about 40.3% of the peninsula's land mass and one-third of the population.[citation needed]
It consists mostly of land reclaimed from the sea:
- Ilha Verde (青洲, "Green Island")
- Toi San (台山 "Table Hill")
- Hipódromo ("Hippodrome", 馬場 "Horse Farm")
- Areia Preta ("Black Sand", 黑沙環 "Black-sand Ring")
- Mong Ha (望廈 "View Amoy"), the Treaty of Wanghia was signed here
- Bairro "Fai Chi Kei" (筷子基 "Chopsticks Base")
- Portas do Cerco(關閘, "Border Gate")
- Iao Hon(祐漢, "Blessing the Han")
It was developed from farmlands in the 1970s. Nowadays, 41% of the factories are here.
It is northeast of St. Anthony Parish and St. Lazarus Parish.