Discovery, Governance, Politics, Population and Environment. History of Macau, travel and tourism information in full guide, Macau government Macau Politics, Macau Culture, Macau People and Tradition; Introducing Macau. Macau special administrative region (Pinyin: tebie xingzhengqu; Wade-Giles romanization: t’e-pieh hsing-cheng-ch’ü) of China, on the country’s southern coast. Macau is located on the southwestern corner of the Pearl (Zhu) River (Chu Chiang) estuary (at the head of which is the port of Guangzhou [Canton]) and stands opposite the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which is some 25 miles (40 km) away on the eastern side of the estuary