Left- and right-hand traffic
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Left-hand traffic and right-hand traffic are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow,
Parts of Canada were LHT until the 1920s, shown here in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1898.
Crossover bridge near the Takutu River Bridge between Guyana (LHT) and Brazil (RHT)
The Lotus Bridge exchanges between LHT in Macau and RHT in mainland China.
Left-hand traffic in Vienna, Austria, c. 1930
Macau
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Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of China. It consists of the Macau Peninsula, the islands of Taipa and Coloane, the Cotai reclamation zone between Taipa and Coloane, and several smal
Left- and right-hand traffic
…about a third of its population. While many of the countries using LHT were part of the British Empire, others such as Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Bhutan, Macau, Thailand, and Mozambique were not. Sweden and Iceland, which have used RHT since September 1967 and late May 1968 respectively, previously used LHT…
Macau in the early 19th century
The legislature meets in the Legislative Assembly Building in Sé.
The Macau Government Headquarters is the official office of the Chief Executive.
Aerial view of the Macau Peninsula at night in 2016