Cathedral Parish

Chinese name

Traditional Chinese

大堂區

Simplified Chinese

大堂区

Cantonese Jyutping

Daai⁶ Tong⁴ Koe¹

Hanyu Pinyin

Dà Tángqū

Transcriptions
Mandarin
- Hanyu Pinyin	Dà Tángqū
- IPA	[tɑ̂ tʰɑ̌ŋtɕʰý]
- Yale Romanization	Dà Tángchyū
Cantonese (Yue)
- Jyutping	Daai⁶ Tong⁴ Koe¹
- IPA	[dàːi tɔ̭ːŋ kʰœ́ː]
- Yale Romanization	Daaih Tòngkeú

Portuguese name

Portuguese

Freguesia da Sé

Cathedral Parish is a southeast freguesia of the Macau Peninsula. It is the second largest peninsular district in Macau after Our Lady Fatima Parish.

Its western part is the historic financial centre of Macau. Praia Grande Central Business District (南灣中心商業區) is in south-central part of the district. All of the banks (over 20) in Macau have offices here.

Quality restaurants, 4-star and 5-star hotels are mostly located in this district. High-rise buildings are located on the eastern part, which was reclaimed from sea. The eastern edge is the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal.

Area: 1.43 km² (21% of the peninsula)
Population: 29,000 (least populated region on the peninsula)
Population density: 20,881 persons per km² (the least on the peninsula)

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Freguesias da RAEM

Municipalities and Parishes of Macau

Note: The following Parishes are purely symbolic there are no political administrative sub-divisions in Macau after the formation of Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais in 2002. Cotai was never a parish.

Municipality of Macau	Our Lady of Fatima Parish · St. Anthony Parish · St. Lazarus Parish · Cathedral Parish · St. Lawrence Parish

Municipality of the Islands	Taipa (Our Lady of Carmel Parish) · Coloane (St. Francis Xavier's Parish) · Cotai

Capitals of Asia

West and Southwest Asia	Central Asia	East Asia

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Amman, Jordan Ankara, Turkey ⁸ Baghdad, Iraq Baku, Azerbaijan ⁸ Beirut, Lebanon Damascus, Syria Doha, Qatar Episkopi, Akrotiri and Dhekelia ⁷ Jerusalem, proclaimed for both Israel and Palestine ⁶ ⁷ Kabul, Afghanistan ¹ Kuwait City, Kuwait Manama, Bahrain Muscat, Oman Nicosia, Cyprus ⁷ Ramallah, Palestine Temporary Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Sana'a, Yemen Tbilisi, Georgia ⁸ Tehran, Iran Jerusalem, Israel Yerevan, Armenia ⁷	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Astana, Kazakhstan ⁸ Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Dushanbe, Tajikistan Tashkent, Uzbekistan South Asia Dhaka, Bangladesh Islamabad, Pakistan Kathmandu, Nepal Kotte, Colombo, Sri Lanka ³ Malé, Maldives New Delhi, India Thimphu, Bhutan	Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC) Pyongyang, North Korea Seoul, South Korea Tokyo, Japan Taipei, Republic of China (ROC) ² Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia ¹ Southeast Asia Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Bangkok, Thailand Dili, East Timor ¹³ Hanoi, Vietnam Jakarta, Indonesia Kuala Lumpur ⁴ and Putrajaya,⁵ Malaysia Manila, Philippines Naypyidaw, Burma Phnom Penh, Cambodia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea ⁹ Singapore, Singapore Vientiane, Laos

¹ Often considered part of Central Asia. ² Commonly known as Taiwan. ³ Full name is Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.

⁴ Formal. ⁵ Administrative. ⁶ See Positions on Jerusalem for details on Jerusalem's status. ⁷ Entirely in Southwest Asia but having socio-political connections with Europe. ⁸ Transcontinental country. ⁹ Entirely in Melanesia but having socio-political connections with Southeast Asia. ¹³ Classified as Melanesia according to some definitions.

Cathedral Parish

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