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The island has been isolated from the mainland since the last ice age. It is located near Xiachuan Island, which lies west of Shangchuan. The two islands, together with smaller islets, form Chuanshan Archipelago. Shangshuan Island has an area of 137.3 km 2 and a 217 km coastline. Settlements on the island include: Dalangwan
Administratively the group falls wholly within the County-level city of Taishan (台山), in the municipal region of Jiangmen, Guangdong.The two large islands, Shangchuan (上川) and Xiachuan (下川), and all the other islands, islets, outcroppings and reefs in the archipelago lie within the jurisdiction of Chuandao, one of Taishan's sixteen "towns" (镇, zhen).
The following is a list of Chinese characters (traditional and simplified) that mean 'island', preceded by the Hanyu Pinyin pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese.. Dǎo (島 / 岛) — the most generic character for island in the Chinese language
Xiachuan Island (Chinese: 下川岛; pinyin: Xiàchuāndǎo) (Hsiachwan Shan) is an island of the South China Sea, on the southern coast of China, part of the Guangdong province. Administration [ edit ]
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In 2000, Guanzhou Island was approved to establish an international biotechnology research and production base, and was officially named "Guangzhou International Biotech Island". Construction began in 2008. [4] [5] [6] It was officially put into operation in July 2011. It is now under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Economic and Technological ...
Zhongshan Island, formerly also known as Macau Island [1] or Xiangshan Island, [a] is a river island on the west bank of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong, China. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] This area is separated from the mainland by a narrow waterway, and has a population of about 2.8 million.