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Encyclopedia > Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Traditional Chinese: 花地瑪堂區
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin: Huādìmǎ Tángqū
Cantonese
Jyutping: Faa1 Dei6 Maa5 Tong4 Koe1
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 region of Macau Peninsula, in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, in the People's Republic of China. Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Standard Mandarin – also known as Standard Chinese or Standard spoken Chinese – is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Standard Cantonese is a variant, and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese Chinese. ... Jyutping (sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Image File history File links Portuguese-Freguesia_de_Nossa_Senhora_de_Fatima. ... Our Lady of Fatima Our Lady of Fatima (pron. ... Macau Peninsula is the oldest and most populous part of Macau in the Peoples Republic of China. ... Maximum extent of Portuguese colonial possessions in the 16th century. ...

  • Area: 2.7 km² (40.3% of the peninsula)
  • Population: 126,000 (one-third of the peninsular population)

It consists of mostly reclaimed lands from the sea: Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. ...

  • 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")
  • 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. Ilha Verde (Portuguese literally meaning island green; Chinese: 青洲; Cantonese Yale: chÄ«ng jāu, Jyutping: cing1 zau1; Mandarin pinyin: QÄ«ngzhōu) was formerly an island to the west of the Macao Isthmus. ... A Hippodrome (Gr. ... Xiamen (Simplified Chinese: 厦门; Traditional Chinese: 廈門; pinyin: Xiàmén; Wade_Giles: Hsiamen) is a coastal sub_provincial city in Fujian Province, southern China. ... Hashi redirects here. ... Portas do Cerco (Chinese: 關閘, literally border gate) is an area on Macao Peninsula, Macao near the border checkpoint with mainland China at Gongbei, Zhuhai. ... // Han in China Chinese (æ¼¢), an abbreviation or adjectival modifier for things Chinese. ...


It is northeast of St. Anthony Parish and St. Lazarus Parish. St. ... St. ...


External links

  • Freguesias da RAEM

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† Archindy.org: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House (0 words)
Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis is your Catholic home for Spirit-driven renewal.
A center of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, it is primarily committed to serving the needs of individual parishes and agencies of the Catholic community.
Our Lady of Fatima also welcomes people of other religious traditions, and other groups seeking a place to conduct programs consistent with its spirit.
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