BGN Foreign Names Committee meeting, Jan. 11, 2000 (approved proposal: present entry: Macau--PCLD, 22°10'N 113°33'E; Recommended entry: Macau [Short form] Special Administrative Region [conventional], Aomen [short form] Tebie Xingzhengqu [Chinese], Região Administrativa Especial de Macau [Macau, short form] (Portuguese)--PCLS, 22°10'N 113°33'E; "the older spelling "Macao" ... as a conventional name was deleted by the Foreign Names Committee on September 2, 1980")
U.S. Dept. of State WWW homepage, Dec. 21, 1999 Macau consular information sheet (former Portuguese colony became Special Administrative Region of China on Dec. 20, 1999)
Foreign names information bulletin, Jan. 30, 2000 (former name: Macau--PCLD, 22°10'N 113°33'E (MC00); new name: Macau [Short form] Special Administrative Region [conventional], Aomen [short form] Tebie Xingzhengqu [Chinese], Região Administrativa Especial de Macau [Macau, short form] (Portuguese)--PCLS, 22°10'N 113°33'E (MC00))