Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	花地瑪堂區
Simplified Chinese	花地玛堂区
Cantonese Jyutping	Faa1 Dei6 Maa5 Tong4 Koe1
Hanyu Pinyin	Huādìmǎ Tángqū
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Huādìmǎ Tángqū Cantonese - Jyutping Faa1 Dei6 Maa5 Tong4 Koe1
Portuguese name
Portuguese	Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima [ Listen (help·info)]

Our Lady of Fatima Parish (Portuguese: Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima) is the northernmost and largest freguesia 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.

[edit] External links

• Freguesias da RAEM

v • d • e Municipalities and Parishes of Macau Municipality of Macau: Our Lady of Fatima Parish · St. Anthony Parish · St. Lazarus Parish · Cathedral Parish · St. Lawrence Parish Municipality of the Islands: Our Lady of Carmel Parish · St. Francis Xavier's Parish · Cotai Landfill Note: These Parishes are purely symbolic there are no political administrative subdivisions in Macau since 2001.

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