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The area of Hainan Island (32,900 km 2 (12,700 sq mi), 97% of the province) is slightly smaller than that of Taiwan Island. To the west of Hainan Island is the Gulf of Tonkin. Wuzhi Mountain is the highest mountain on the island at 1,840 m (6,040 ft). Hainan Island measures 288 km (179 mi) long and 180 km (110 mi) wide.
In Hainan, nearly all county-level divisions (the eight districts excepted) come directly under the province. This method of division is due to Hainan's relatively sparse population. However, it is planned that the counties and cities in Hainan (excluding Sansha) would be merged into five city-level cities, just like those in mainland China.
Location of Hainan province in China. This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Hainan, People's Republic of China (PRC).After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of the PRC.
Hainan Han people, who today form the majority population of the island, trace their origins to Han colonists and exiles from Fujian and Guangdong province. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] By and large, they were not voluntary colonists, but were acting on government orders to populate the sparsely populated peninsula and island. [ 3 ]
This island is located off the coast of Hainan Province, China. This 1.48 square kilometre island is situated within Haitang Bay, approximately 30 kilometres northeast of Sanya, between Nanwan Monkey Island to the north, and Yalong Bay to the south. Ximaozhou: This island is located in Sanya Bay. [13] Xinbu Island
The vast majority live off the southern coast of China on Hainan Island, [3] where they are the largest minority ethnic group. Divided into the five branches of the Qi (Gei), Ha, Run (Zwn), Sai (Tai, Jiamao) and Meifu (Moifau), [4] the Hlai have their own distinctive culture and customs. Traditional weaving methods of the Hlai on Hainan Island ...
Haikou is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, by Haikou Bay, facing the Leizhou Peninsula across the Qiongzhou Strait that stretches west from Beibu Bay near Vietnam to the James Shoal bordering the South China Sea to the west. Most of the city is almost completely flat and only a few metres above sea level.
Tiếng Việt; 粵語; 中文; Edit links ... Parks in Hainan (1 C) Peninsulas of Hainan (1 P) Populated places in Hainan (15 P) ... Geology of Hainan Island; N ...