Hong Kong and Macau Compared
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Mr. Beat compares and contrasts Macau and Hong Kong, both located in China.
Music by Electric Needle Room (Matt Beat) and Drew Gerber.
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Hong Kong and Macau
Both are mostly self-governing territories within China, just 61 kilometers, or 38 miles apart. Both are cities- no they’re not Mr. Beat you idiot!
Ok Ok, both are special. Special administrative regions of China, that is., based on China’s one country, two systems principle. According to CGP Grey, they are both “the most country-like countries that aren’t countries.” Confused yet? Basically, Hong Kong and Macau are a part of China, but both get a lot of leeway to decide how they want to do stuff compared to the rest of China. China takes care of their foreign affairs and military defense and they take care of everything else. Both have a presidential limited democracy, although Hong Kong seems more open to expand that democracy than Macau.
Both are part of the Pearl River Delta, which is probably the biggest urban area in the world based on both its size and population. Some estimates put the population of the Pearl River Delta metropolitan area at 120 million! Oh my goodness. What? 120 million? No way. Russia has like just 24 million more people than that. Ok sorry, anyway, both are incredibly densely populated. Macau is the most densely populated territory in the world and Hong Kong is 4th. There are people everywhere, man!
So maybe this makes sense, but the largest ethnic group in both regions is Chinese. However, Hong Kong has a significant Filipino and Indonesian minority and Macau has a significant Macanese minority, which is a mix of Portuguese and Asian ancestry. Wait, Portuguese? Huh?
Yeah, well both Hong Kong and Macau are former colonies of Western empires. Until 1997, Great Britain controlled Hong Kong. Until 1999, Portugal controlled Macau. Because of that, the two were heavily influenced by foreign powers and not as much influenced by China. Actually, over time, the foreign powers left them both alone, too, and they thrived, probably because of that. In fact, both Hong Kong and Macau are two of the richest territories in the world due to free markets working their magic there.
Indeed, both make a lot of money. Hong Kong’s GDP per capita is about $45,000 a year, the 12th highest in the world, although it is dealing with some dramatic income inequality right now. Macau’s GDP per capita is over $104,000 a year, making it the 3rd highest in the world. Macau is so rich that it doesn’t know what to do with all the extra money, so its government gives it back directly to the citizens. Both have very low taxes compared to most of the world. However, residents of Hong Kong do pay about 25% more taxes than residents of Macau.
Despite this, according to the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, Hong Kong ranks number one in the world, and has been ranked number one every year since the list began 23 years ago. Macau is ranked 34th on that same list.
The cost of living in both countries is pretty similar, although Macau is about 3% cheaper currently, mostly due to Hong Kong’s higher housing costs.
Both have low unemployment. Based on the latest numbers I could find, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate is 2.9% and people were freaking out recently when Macau’s unemployment went up from 1.8% all the way up to 1.9%. I’m obviously kidding. That’s a ridiculously low unemployment rate.
Speaking of ridiculous, both have a ridiculously high life expectancy.
What did I leave out or get wrong looking at Macau and Hong Kong? Which two places should I compare next?
I can't believe that's the first time I've ever got that suggestion!
Mr. Beat Michigan and Wisconsin
The U.K. and Ireland compared
Nipun L.A. and NYC is also still coming :D
I get so many requests for both North and South Carolina and Michigan and Wisconsin that it's inevitable I will eventually create those two videos
Hong Kong: Chinese New York
Macau: Chinese Las Vegas
Shanghai: Chinese Chicago
Beijing: Chinese Washington DC
more like shanghai=new york, and hong kong= chicago
Shanghai surpass hong kong as a financial center
Nice it actually fits great espcially that in the 20th century there were a lot of gangsters in shanghai same as chicago and also some jazz culture
@@reihydra nah Hong Kong is Los Angeles and Wuhan is Chicago
@Andre CS isn’t that Tokyo tho??
Macau for gamblers and Hong Kong for tourists.. rich tourists.
Macau for gambling tourists and Hong Kong for rich tourists. Oh, and China for everyone else.
lol I would say Macau for casino gamblers and Hong Kong is for stock market gamblers
faris taj right(from a hong konger)
You have to be rich just to get a China visa. Costs about $230 us dollars last time I asked.
Madness
Macau is Monaco, Hong Kong is Manhattan
Hong Konger in Macau: Can I use Hong Kong dollar here?
Macanese cashier: Yep.
Macanese in Hong Kong: Can I use Macanese Pataca here?
Hong Konger cashier: LIKE HELL THAT'S HAPPENING
wat lol
to be fair, hkd worth more than mop lol.
Yeah that’s true. I’m Macanese and every time I go to HK. wooh
Saw that right as he said it lol 😂
LITERALLYY
Portuguese is also a official language in Macao but the number of people that speak it has droped alot.
Lusitani Mendes
Nobody speaks portuguese in the first place. Most are Chinese speakers.
thesuperproify Yes most people speak Cantonese, but there is still a minority that speaks some portuguese, expecialy in the elders.
Lusitani Mendes
no, even the elders dont speak portuguese.
Maybe portuguese immigrants and mixed race people still use it but for the Chinese people, nobody ever speak portuguese.
thesuperproify Dude ive been there in 2015 and ive spooken with old shop keepers in portuguese, i dont know why you are denying it so hard, whats the problem??
thesuperproify czcams.com/video/fnrcCyZLiOg/video.html
A comparison of Liechtenstein and Luxembourg would be interesting
@ItzSkylerUwU. YT On a map thats focused on Europe that is unless you have some sort of superior vision.
@ItzSkylerUwU. YT I know my geograghy. I 'd want you to clearly depict luxembourg from a broadscale poster-map. You can't, only generalize the area by belgium france and germany. It's small even when focussed on Europe but on a world map it isn't visable.
@ItzSkylerUwU. YT The fact that even on Euro-focused maps that some of them have to highlight Luxembourg out into the ocean (away from mainland) pretty much prove it's small.
Lichtenstein is Switzerland and Luxembourg is France + Germany combined easy
Portuguese is an official language of macau but only 5% speak it. Most of us speak Chinese, cantonese and english.
NO english!!!!
mandarin and cantonese together are all called chinese
I remember how pleasantly bizarre it was to see Portuguese signage everywhere in Macau and I hope more people learn it.
Funny thing is that the bus and train announcement here speaks in 4 langauges
"They accept the HK dollar in Macao but they don't accept the Macanese pataca in HK." Sounds like the US dollar and the Canadian dollar!
that big oof
I am a Macanese and I absolutly LOVE how I can use google here.
胡友裕 兄弟，大陆也能用，只不过麻烦点而已
lmao
I am HongKongese and I agree.
Nice
愛國，不愛黨
Can you compare the Pearl River Delta to Silicon Valley?
That's an interesting one
or compare Guangdong province (Canton) to California.
Compare Hongkong and Shenzhen
Or
Shanghai vs Beijing
I dont like their video tho, too biased , too much western this western that, blablablabla,
I want a more objective, factual comparison, kinda the style of this video
Zhuhai and hong kong
Im from hong kong
Short answer: Beijing is better.
@jonathan joestar the problem with those 2 guys is that they are serious whiners, they complain about every aspect of China, yet they've set up their whole lives there, it's like some of those ungrateful refugees who were given citizenship, yet still complaining about their host country.
also recently those two have turned to click bait titles. but the most insufferable about those 2 are their viewers, many of whom are also subscribers of China uncensored.
Portuguese is a co-official language in Macau.
Daniel Ayon do they know how to talk? The people in general
Only 5-7% of the people know how to speak it.
Still, Portuguese is used when it comes to Law or other government jobs.
and it's in their currency.
Amo falar português
Macau official language.
1 Chinese (National
2 Chinese (Guangdong
3 Portuguese
Awesome video! My inner geography nerd gets excited when you upload these types of videos!
Thank you, and geography nerds unite!
I am a Macanese and I am very proud of our economy!
U should also be proud of your country哥们儿 一国两制的政策
Your animations are getting so much better! I really enjoy the evolution!
Great to hear that! :D
The important difference is that one is portugal caralho
Rip império
Don't worry, the fifth empire is on the way.
XxX_69_edgy teen_69_XxX not anymore and nobody speaks Portuguese either. It’s dead
🇧🇷
Nossos pais porra 🇵🇹🇵🇹❤️
@@LaBucci It's still the 6th most spoken language in the world
Richest place in China? Macau
Richest place in India? Goa
Both ruled by the Portuguese 🇵🇹
As a Goan, I'm so proud of being part of Portuguese history and culture ❤️
im portuguese, SIUU my brother
I'm Brazilian and I am jealous of you trade colonies. At least our years as home for the imperial family saw some progress happening
One difference between Hong Kong and Macau as of August, 2019: Hong Kong is experiencing protests and riots.
Holy crap that's my suggestion nice!
your videos are always great, and has got me through some tricky essays. thanks mr beat
Great to hear :D Essays for a grade? If so, how did they turn out?
an essay about andrew jackson and henry clay, when starting my research phase, your storytime videos kinda set the foundation. And I got an Excellence, which in state schools would be A-A*
thank you for this awesome video!
you made me really want to visit these places and learn more about them!!
Citizens of Macau have two passports, one is chinese macau and the other one is Portugal. They can live in both places and have double citizenship.
On the other hand Hong Kong have Chinese Hong Kong and some of them have the BNO. However they do not have the citizenship of the United Kingdom, which means they cannot live in the UK
Hong Kong is destroyed
@@1mol831 no
@@1mol831 ....
anyone born in HK before 1997 was a british subject eligble to obatain a uk passport, after the handover in 97 is when that all stopped
I love both Hong Kong and Macau! Can you do Singapore compared to Malaysia next? Great video Mr Beat!
I like Macau better, life style is more casual. And they have grand prix every year...
You're killing it with these comparison videos! Congrats man.
Thanks! Yeah they seem to do well, and I love making them, so it works out. :)
Portuguese is also official in Macau
Can you compare Iran and Saudi Arabia? Both countries are extremely religious, and they have differences and similarities that are worth to pointing.
Great suggestion! And I think the first time I've got that one.
Iranians are Persians and speak Farsi and Saudis are Arabs and speak Arabic... Not the same type of comparison. One is Shia and one is Sunni... Hong Kong and Macau are the same ethnic group and speak Cantonese.
I'm half macanese and half hong kongese haha, and proud to be
Really Cool
English is an oficial language in Hong Kong and Portuguese is a official language in Macau, how could you miss that? Oh and Macau is only "generally flat" because of land reclamation. Otherwise it wouldn't have anywhere to build similar to Hong Kong. BTW where did you get time-lapse footage of Macau? It's pretty cool.
dxelson Cantonese is the official language and English is secondary. Try talking to the majority of people in Hong Kong and almost all speaks Cantonese and the younger generation speaks English.
@@unknownna6803 By law there's no primary or secondary official languages.
@@unknownna6803 cool try to:)) I live in HK for last 10 years. and what you say is not true.
I'd say ppl in Tai Po, Fanling, Sheung Shui and some lower classes representatives don't speak English but in general everyone does.
I live in HK and Cantonese is the official language of HK
I’m from Macau and every macau citizen receives around 9000MOP every year
Lol I’m rich af there, this video explained why they do that
Melon ForLife that equates to ~$1120 usd per year....not a whole lot but maybe purchasing power is better over there.
@@m2burles1 the share had increased to 10000mop these year
@@mrd7486 whats so funny about??
@@m2burles1 yeah but every citizen gets the money instead of paying taxes. So basically the govt pays you taxes instead of the other way around.
Less religious? Really? Macau is not less religious.... We have many Portuguese influences and we will still have many Catholic parade as well as some traditional Chinese folk parade.
Muito bom que vocês acreditem em Jesus
otrosmun No its not
@@joaocarvalho1347 you can't decide this
@@makky6239 Yes i can. I live there
Aqui em macau a influência católica é bem mais forte do que em hk
Thank you for the video, very informative.
Thanks for watching! I have a new Compared episode coming out next week.
Thank you for this information😊
Macau is so rich that it gives its legal residents free money. My friend is a U.S. citizen and have been living in America for more than 25 years. But he still gets thousands in free money from the Macau government for doing nothing, only because he was born there.
Macau is a beautify territory. I was there few months ago 😁can't wait to go back again! Definitely worth visiting. I love to travel; love to take pics and videos and share my experience😁
really interesting video :)
I learned quite a bit off this one
Glad to hear it!
Hey Mr. Beat! love your videos! here are some suggestions
cities:
Tucson and Phoenix(1 of which i live in)
San Diego and Los Angeles
Chicago and Milwaukee
Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Baltimore and DC
London and Paris
Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo
Cape Town and Johannesburg
Sydney and Melbourne
Tokyo and Osaka
Beijing and Shanghai
All of those city suggestions i think are good because they are close but they are all full with cool similarities and differences.
Here are some country/State comparisons:
Arizona and New Mexico
UK and France
Argentina and Brazil
New Zealand and Australia
Mississippi and Alabama
Russia and the USSR
Wow, what a great list. Thanks so much for taking the time to share all that.
You're welcome! I'm a student too and i'm learning alot thanks to your videos!
If your gonna do Argentina then you should do Argentina and Uruguay.
Excellent video
Awesome video
Awesome video Mr. Beat..
Very professional and none-bias, well-done!
Do one on Toronto vs Montreal!
What about Toronto and Vancouver?
Mr. Beat oh that’s a good one as well!
What about Saskatchewan vs Manitoba?
Let's not start a war between the English and French
Mr. Beat Quebec vs Ontario, Alberta vs BC, Calgary vs Edmonton, Yukon vs NWT, Newfoundland vs Labrador...
Can you do Alberta (Canadian Province) compared with British Columbia (also a Province).
You really just made me remove my confusion of the one country; two systems, thanks
Can you tell me about the weather situations in Hong Kong? How do you survive during rainy season especially facing typhoon and other difficult situations in HK? Can you prepare a video on this topic and sent me the link.
As a British born Hong Konger, I find Macau a very interesting place with so many similarities with Hong Kong!
Hi, congrats for your video, pretty interesting. Could you compare Spain and Gibraltar, since Gibraltar is a British colony enclosed in Spain? Also it''d be worth highlighting the influence Spain has on Gibraltarians regarding customs, ethnicity and even the language. Thank you so much.
Gibraltar and Ceuta!
Thank you for making great videos!
P.S. I'm from Hong Kong!
How would they transistion from left to right driving
That's a really great question and sounds like a future video haha. I should have mentioned in this one that China drives on the right side of the road, the right side. :D
Most people just wouldn't bother. They usually take buses or trains to the customs checkpoint and then walk through it to the other side. Since driving from Hong Kong to China would require separate car registration plates and applying through the Police departments of two different city. But if you REALLY want to travel by car, most roads are unidirectional so that drivers could be directed to the correct lane and not have any accidents happening.
If you do go to Hong Kong then please travel to Macau, you can get a ferry for about 30 pound. If you stay over in one of the hotels in Macau, stay on a weekday and you can get a5 star hotel for under 200 pound for the night. It's definitely worth seeing. I've stayed at the galaxy and the Venetian, both were amazing.
Could you do a video series on different forms of government?
I love that idea
Mr. Beat clones now!? You really are taking over. Great vid.
Well I needed some help :) You should make one, too.
I have my 4 twin brothers and 2 twin sisters.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot
Mr. Beat at least in Hong Kong. By 2050 or so Hong Kong will become an official city of China
Many people have said this, but Portuguese is also an official language in Macau (although, yes, spoken by few people). Also, no one mentioned this, but you also forgot Patuá, the endangered creole of the Macanese minority.
Yoo man as a Brazilian i really wanna visit Macau once, and see all the portuguese influence over there.
Eu sei a influencia pvt
ja toh influencia mano... Ohhh as idea
8:50 That circle road thing, there is sometime a lot of traffic and accidents.
Please compare:
Luxembourg vs Liechtenstein
or
Luxembourg vs Switzerland
i am from macau
Hi
I am from Hong kong
Hello i am from india
What do you guys think of your time as a Portuguese territory, did you prefer it? What do you think of the Portuguese!
Same
Macau is sooooooooooooooooooo crowded ,I often go there ,but I live in Hong Kong
_軍Inferno As My Life what do you expect? It’s Macau.
so HK not crowded😂😂😂
Recently travelled to Hong Kong (and took a day trip to Macau), these places are amazing by all standards!
This vlog illustrates "one country, two systems". Using the UK model, why not one country (China) and two semi-autonomous city-states under the military protection of PRC? July 1, 2019
That's so odd that they drive on the left in Macau but in Portugal and China driving is on the right. I wonder how that came to be?
Sounds like a future video
I think its because of cheaper cars but theyre left hand driving, something like that.
I believe it's most likely because they import most of their cars from Japan which drives on the left.
ARTiculations i believe that Portuguese used to drive on the left before 1928. When Portugal changed Macau didn't change
Patrick Lee also because all their cars are imported through HK
Portuguese is also an official language in Macau 😐🙃
Joao Santos nobody speaks portuguese.
Portugal is nowadays the poorest european nation and insignificant af.
thesuperproify first I said it's an official language which it is, second a really small number of people speak it, and yes there's influence of Portuguese culture there, as you can see from the names of some local politicians and people. And btw no Portugal it's not the poorest country in Europe check your facts first please smfh 🤦🏼♂️
I'm from Macau and I speak Portuguese too. Portuguese language is one of the most spoken in the world.
@@thesuperproify no it's Albania
@@outros5062 me?
Who here is watching this after Hong Kong is no longer separate and not free anymore?
Very informative.
Yeah..
One country two systems no more..
Excellent comparison.
Some Dude Very informative and in-depth.
Could you do a updated version??
interesting video. I went to both places with my daughter during easter. It was a great experience.
Things are going crazy in Hong Kong...So thx for giving me some hope
Hate to say it but one country, two systems part hasn't aged well.
we dont use friggin simplified chinese in hong kong.
Awesome video! Also, a comparison between Dubai & Qatar (or Abu Dhabi) would be interesting
Dubai is not a Country you should put UAE and Qatar but I paired Qatar with Bahrain than UAE
hi baby, came to dubai
You sure did a lot of research,I live in macau and almost 99% of your explanations are right.
Good job man👍👍👍👍👍
macao people are nicer than hk people.
proof? hongkoners are quite nice too
@@markshao3901 Hong Kongers dont like Mainland people either. The feeling's mutual. They pollute all the beaches, and crowd the city, and spit on the ground.
@@adrianatgaming8640 seriously? I bet u never met one.
@@markshao3901 ok stop coming then
@@markshao3901i why the fuck would i ever want to go to a communist shit hole ? ill save on the vpn subscriptions and travel the rest of the world until you guys get your act together hopefully the social credit system will make you animals half way decent in 50 years. tHank god you've kept your paws out of hong kong cant speak for the other 45 million communist dogs who come to hong kong every year. you give han people a horrible image world wide
Mr. Beat can you compare the Canadian provinces?
4:46 It’s about time dude!
Compare Italy and Spain ! Please
Italy might be better but I love Spain more
Both shit
I live in Macau and I love it. Hong Kong is also a very nice place. It’s so expensive which is a shame. Macau has 3 Islands which is also pretty cool! I myself live in Coloane but work in Taipa. Great video by the way
I'm a Brazilian and i would LOVE live in Macau so greetings from your giant and tropical "brother" !
@@inkugaru or half-brother
You should make a comparison video on Saigon and Bangkok (:
4:47 As someone actually from Hong Kong, i played this part twice to know the guy is saying "youre beautiful" in cantonese. Even though his pronounciation is a bit off, still, quite impressive.
They should be city-states just like Singapore.
Except for the rightful dignity of the Chinese civilization that they be special parts of China. Hong Kong's history is that of tear and foreign aggression for China, called the Opium Wars.
Wouldn't work. Singapore has actual value and can support itself. Hong Kong and Macau aren't natural city locations; they were entirely propped up by the British (for HK) and now the Chinese.
Hong Kong has the worst living standard/space compares the other developed countries or cities.
True
So concise inputs... Kindly also compare Guam & Puerto Rico...
great video
Hello everybody, I'm Macanese :)))
鄭嘉鴻 *I am Yangzhounese :)))*
I'd like to see a comparison of Singapore with either HK or Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur is not a country if Singapore is a City is with Kuala Lumpur while Singapore is a Country with Malaysia
would love to see a modern video about everything happenning in hong kong
5:37, the lady on the left picture is a Hong Kong actress...
Compare Vermont and New Hampshire
That'd be a good one
That'd be a REALLY good one
I am from Hong Kong! I am making a collaboration project with another youtuber. And can you make a video on What If Hong Kong was independent? It's really hard to find on the internet! Thanks!
So awesome! Hopefully I didn't get anything wrong. And that's a great idea for a video. I'll have to add it to my list.
:)
When's this video gonna be made, Mr.Beat?
一国一制喽，我倒是想看看有多少香港人愿意战死。
mainland will military control it, that's all
The Yangtze River Delta has more people (Shanghai and friends), but it probably depends on how you choose the boundaries. Thanks for the overview of Macau. I knew next to nothing about it outside of it being a Portuguese colony. Starting as a trading post in 1557!
Hey man! Do Bangkok vs. Kuala Lumpur
Southeast Asian non Chinese has been living in HK for over 5 decades, including Nepalese, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, besides Filipinos and Indonesians. I have be born and brought up here as a third cultured kid. This has been a vital part of living in HK, seeing mix of various ethnicities and classes. The disparity between the rich and poor has a HUGE gap. As of the record in 2016, HK’s Gini Coefficient(measures wealth gap with an index of 0-1) was 0.539. I have come across many homeless people when walking in Jordan and Yau Ma Tei areas. If HK is one of the wealthiest places in the world, why are there many homeless?
There are people living in cages and families living in confined rooms. On the other hand, there are obviously those who live a very luxurious life in quieter and bigger apartments, and even houses. So yes, housing is a critical issue for the local residents here and the gap of wealth is alarming.
By the way, thanks for making the video. It makes me more aware of HK and Macau!
Neha Walihang they are talking about the average and majority of the people who are rich or middle classed.
Hong Kong is heaven to rich people and hell to the poor
As a Portuguese I'd like to live in Macau
Compare Little Rock Arkansas to Topca Kansas.Is that your home town?
Topeka? It's where I was born and I have a lot of family there.
you should do Auckland and Wellington NZ
Even as a Hong Konger, I didn't even know we are number 1 at Economic Freedom. Good job at making the video!!
You will know it when you have Liberal Studies classes in secondary school. This is like common knowledge to every HK secondary student.
James Tsai yeah wait some years unfortunately after the mainland Chinese take over HK , the economic freedom would be long gone.
Saibal Republic
At least China has kept its promise of letting HK maintain the current economic independency for 20 yrs now, and according to the deal China made with UK, there will be another 30 yrs to go. So it's really not an issue for my generation since we are probably retired then.
Mandyy_sharing I appreciate that , Mandy. HK is and would always be my most favourite city. The thing is , China taking over is something I don't like to be honest.
proud of that? lmao
I Want travel for Macau, i love Portuguese History
Hello Mr. Best can you compare Italy and Spain?
TheMartindigo Good one :)
please compare netherlands and denmark