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Fujian[ a ], previously romanized as Fukien, is a province located in South China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest city by population is Quanzhou, other notable cities include the port city of Xiamen and Zhangzhou.
Fuzhou[a] is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Mindong linguistic and cultural region. Fuzhou's population was 7,115,370 as of the 2010 census.
Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China. [a] It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region, with an area of 11,245 square kilometers (4,342 sq mi) and a population of 8,782,285 as of the 2020 census.
Map of the Administrative divisions of the Fujian People's Government. In November 1933 some leaders of the National Revolutionary Army's 19th Route Army—including Cai Tingkai, Chen Mingshu and Jiang Guangnai, who had gained fame for their role in the January 28 Incident—were deployed to southern China to suppress a Communist rebellion.
A map of southeastern China drawn in 1863, showing the Taiwan strait at the lower-right corner. Fujian and Taiwan are separated by the narrow Taiwan Strait, about 300 kilometers long from north to south, with an average width of 180 kilometers, an average water depth of 50 meters, and an area of about 80,000 square kilometers. [28]
Guangdong surpassed Henan and Shandong to become China's most populous province in January 2005, registering 79.1 million permanent residents and 31 million migrants who lived in the province for at least six months of the year; [11] [12] the total population was 126,012,510 in the 2020 Chinese census, accounting for 8.93 percent of mainland ...
The Constitution Protection Region of Southern Fujian ( Chinese: 閩南護法區; pinyin: Mǐnnán hùfǎ qū) [ 1][ a][ b] was a de facto autonomous region of Republic of China established by the "Guangdong Army to assist Fujian" ( Chinese: 援閩粵軍; pinyin: Yuánmǐn yuèjūn) [ c] led by General Chen Jiongming. The regional ...
As of 2017, China administers 33 provincial-level regions, 334 prefecture-level divisions, 2,862 county-level divisions, 41,034 township-level administrations, and 704,382 basic level autonomies. [1] Each of the levels (except "special administrative regions") corresponds to a level in the Civil Service of the People's Republic of China.