Macau

Macau is filed here as a country of its own under the same rule as Hong Kong and Taiwan: the country field names the administration whose law governs the place, not a judgement about sovereignty, on which the atlas takes no position. Portuguese from 1557 and handed over in 1999, Macau keeps its own law, its own land register and its own currency, and the gambling monopoly that ended in 2002 made it the only place in China where casinos are lawful — which is the entry's own claim and is separate from the filing question.