Our Lady of Fatima Parish

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.

External links

• Freguesias da RAEM

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