Country size comparison
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Macau is about 39 times smaller than Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is approximately 1,108 sq km, while Macau is approximately 28 sq km, making Macau 2.55% the size of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the population of Hong Kong is ~7.3 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Macau).
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Flip Comparison · See true size
See Macau on top of Hong Kong
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Quality of Life Comparison · 8 statistics
Be 74.7% more likely to be unemployed in Hong Kong
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Cost of Living Comparison · 7 categories - 2026 data
Hong Kong is 34.1% more expensive than Macau overall
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Moving from Macau to Hong Kong · UN DESA 2020
74,414 people born in Macau live in Hong Kong.
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