Cotai

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Field	Value
name	Cotai
native_name	路氹城
other_name	Cotai
settlement_type	Zone
image_skyline	The Parisian 2016.jpg
image_caption	Cotai
image_map	Cotai 2015.png
mapsize	250x250px
map_caption	Zona do Aterro de Cotai in Macau
subdivision_name2	Macau
subdivision_type2	SAR
subdivision_name3
subdivision_type3	Country
area_total_km2	5.8
population_total	300
population_as_of	2016
population_density_km2	auto
area_code	0
timezone	Macau Standard
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Cotai (; ) is a 5.2 km2 piece of reclaimed land on the top of the Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau 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.

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. 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 () connecting Taipa and Coloane was inaugurated. 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.

Galaxy Entertainment Group's Grand Waldo Hotel was the first casino to commence operations in Cotai, opening in May 2006. The largest property on Cotai so far is Las Vegas Sands' The Venetian Macao, which opened on August 28, 2007. Melco PBL Holdings opened the City of Dreams directly across the street from the Venetian on June 1, 2009. 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

East Landfill Zone

East of the Avenida do Aeroporto is a trapezoidal section of reclaimed land that is home to the city's only construction waste landfill, in use since 2006. In 2011, AECOM and the Macau government built a seawall to stabilize the landfill and stop the mud around it from encroaching on the Macau International Airport's piles.

The site is presently home to the transportation department's car inspection facility and driver's license exam center (opened in 2016) as well as the Macau Light Rapid Transit depot (opened in 2019). In 2024, the government announced plans to build the city's first waste recycling center in the area, completing it by 2027.

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

File:Macau Taipa ferry piers Cotai Water Jet 金光飛航 night April 2016 DSC (1).JPG|Ferry piers in Cotai File:Cotai.JPG|Cotai Strip under construction in 2007 File:Cotai2007.JPG|Cotai in 2007 File:MUST Hospital 01.jpg|MUST Hospital

Footnotes

References

Tan, Anthony. (25 November 2006). "Must-see Macau". The Star.
"Macao hoists Signal No. 9 to embrace Typhoon Mangkhut".
Starkweather, Maxim. "History of Cotai - The Creation of Cotai - Macau Casinos". Macau Casinos.
Quadros, Saldanha. (15 March 2018). "Macao, Cotai, and The New Architecture".
Venetian Macao press release, 28 August 2007{{full citation needed. (April 2025)
(July 17, 2020). "Government to charge construction waste disposal".
(2013). "Design and Construction of a Landfill Containment Bund cum Seawall Supported on Stone Columns Installed in Very Soft Marine Mud in Cotai, Macau". International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
(January 18, 2016). "Transport chief says traffic problem has reached dead end, vows to improve".
"LBA Architecture and Planning".
House, Jeremy. (March 13, 2018). "Macao Light Rail Transit Depot – Consulasia".
Wong, Tony. (June 6, 2024). "Organic waste recycling centre project targets completion in 2027".

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