Macau Flag

The flag of Macau is a white lotus flower, surmounted by five yellow five-pointed stars, all on a green background. The lotus flower is drawn over a bridge. Ancient Chinese province, Macau was leased to the portuguese for 400 years before being reassigned December 20, 1999. This is the last European colony to have been regiven after Hong Kong. Five stars shall refer to those on People's Republic of China’s one, the largest on the center clearly evoking the Chinese Communist Party. But even back under Chinese rule, Macau does not have the same laws and the same rules as China on its territory. Like Hong Kong, it is a Special Administrative Region, that is to say, a political subdivision of China, that does not have the same regulations, including economic. Portuguese flags have thus ceased to float in Macao November 19, 1999, replaced by the latter, who was chosen from over 1200 entries in a competition organized for the occasion, and designed by Xiao Hong, professor of drawing.