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Cotai Landfill Zone
Cotai Landfill Zone
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	路氹填海區
Simplified Chinese	路凼填海区
Jyutping	lou6 tam5 tin4 hoi2 keoi1
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lùdàng Tiánhǎi Qū
IPA	[lûtâŋʈʂʰə̌ŋ xàɪtɕʰý]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Louhtáhm Tìhnhói Kēui
Jyutping	lou6 tam5 tin4 hoi2 keoi1
IPA	[lɔw˨.tʰɐm˩˧ tʰin˩.hɔj˧˥ kʰɵɥ˥]
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese	路氹城
Jyutping	lou6 tam5 sing4
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lùdàng Chéng
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	lou6 tam5 sing4
Portuguese name
Portuguese	Zona do Aterro de Cotai

Cotai

路氹城
Cotai
Cotai 路氹城 Cotai
Zone
	Cotai
	Zona do Aterro de Cotai in Macau
Concelho	Concelho das Ilhas
SAR	Macau
Sovereign state	People's Republic of China
Area
• Total	5.8 km2 (2.2 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	~300
Time zone	UTC+8 (Macau Standard)
Area code	0

22°08′27″N 113°33′47″E / 22.14082°N 113.56310°E / 22.14082; 113.56310

Cotai (Chinese: 路氹城; Cantonese Yale: Louhtáhm Sìhng; Portuguese: Cotai) is a 5.2-square-kilometer (2.0 sq mi) piece of reclaimed land on the top of the Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau^[1] that has connected two independent islands since 2005. The name, which is a portmanteau of Coloane and Taipa, can also refer to the island formed by the reclamation. In the second sense, the Special Administrative Region of Macau now consists of the Macau Peninsula, plus Cotai Island, about a mile to the south.^[2]

Cotai was created to provide Macau with a new gambling and tourism area, since Macau is so densely populated and land is scarce. Many hotels and casinos can now be found on the island.^[3] In 2006, a new hospital was founded in the Cotai area, the MUST Hospital, which is associated with the Macau University of Science and Technology Foundation.

History

In 1968, a causeway (Estrada do Istmo [yue]) connecting Taipa and Coloane was inaugurated.^[4] Throughout the 1990s, a series of landfill works expanded this isthmus, and after the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China, further landfills began to expand this small isthmus further.

Hotels and casinos

The "Cotai Strip" is a name designating the entire hotel-casino area, where the term "Cotai Strip" has been trademarked by Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which coined the phrase (USPTO Registration Nos. 4396486 and 4396486 for gambling and hotel services), and only applies to its properties.^{[citation needed]}

Galaxy Entertainment Group's Grand Waldo Hotel was the first casino to commence operations in Cotai, opening its doors in May 2006.^{[citation needed]} The largest property on Cotai so far is Las Vegas Sands' The Venetian Macao, which opened its doors on August 28, 2007.^[5] Melco PBL Holdings opened the City of Dreams directly across the street from the Venetian on June 1, 2009.^{[citation needed]} The construction of additional casinos and hotel projects is currently underway.

List of hotels and casinos

Four Seasons Hotel Macao
Broadway Macau
City of Dreams
Galaxy Macau
Grand Lisboa Palace
Lisboeta Macau
MGM Cotai
Pousada Marina Infante
Studio City Macau
The Londoner Macao
The Parisian Macao
The Plaza Macao
The Venetian Macao
Wynn Palace

Tourist attractions

Macau East Asian Games Dome

Transportation

Cotai Jet – high speed catamaran owned by The Venetian Macao, operating ferry services between Taipa Ferry Terminal and Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal, Hong Kong
Macau Light Rapid Transit - a mass transit system in Macau that began partial operations in 2019. Planned expansions will serve the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Cotai, serving major border checkpoints such as the Border Gate, the Outer Harbor Ferry Terminal, the Lotus Bridge Border, and the Macau International Airport. The Ocean-to-Taipa-Ferry-Terminal line began operations in late 2019.

Gallery

Ferry piers in Cotai
Cotai Strip under construction in 2007
Cotai in 2007
MUST Hospital

Footnotes

^ Tan, Anthony (25 November 2006). "Must-see Macau". The Star. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
^ "Macao hoists Signal No. 9 to embrace Typhoon Mangkhut". Archived from the original on September 16, 2018. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
^ Starkweather, Maxim. "History of Cotai - The Creation of Cotai - Macau Casinos". Macau Casinos. Archived from the original on 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
^ Quadros, Saldanha (15 March 2018), "Macao, Cotai, and The New Architecture", Macao Magazine, retrieved 2020-04-16
^ Venetian Macao press release, 28 August 2007