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A 5.4 km (3.4 mi) bridge, the Kinmen Bridge, connecting Kinmen Island (Greater Kinmen) and Lieyu was completed in October 2022, estimated to cost NT$7.5 billion (US$250 million). [106] [107] It is expected to increase local tourism. [107] [108] In October 2019, China announced a plan to build a bridge linking Xiamen to Kinmen.
The state, a.k.a. the "Republic of China" (ROC), including all 168 islands administered by the ROC; The traditional Taiwan region (本島地區), excluding Kinmen, Matsu, and Wuqiu, which are traditionally parts of Fujian Province, and also excluding the ROC-controlled South China Sea Islands;
In September 1910, the center of a typhoon swept over Niushan Island (Turnabout Island) and Wuqiu (Ockseu) or a few miles to the southeast. [26] The lighthouse at Wuqiu (烏坵嶼) marked on a 1943 Japanese Aviation Map. Wuqiu Township was originally part of Putian County [27] [28] with many of its residents emigrating from the county.
Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, and the Matsu islands further up the Chinese coast, since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's ...
Nangan is also named Matsu Island [8] because of a temple on the island which is supposed to be the burial site of the similarly named goddess Mazu (媽祖). [21] Matsu is the Wade-Giles -derived romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation ( Ma³-tsu³ ) for the Chinese character name ( 馬祖 ) of the islands.
The island of Lesser Kinmen is situated outside the mouth of mainland China's Jiulong River and inside Xiamen's harbor [citation needed]. The distance from mainland China at the closest point is only about 5,000 m (16,000 ft) and is located in a very strategic position.
Kinmen was the site of frequent fighting during the height of the Cold War but is today a popular tourist destination, though many of the islets which are part of the island group are heavily ...
Taiwan's coast guard escorted the boat back to Kinmen, and it then continued its sight-seeing voyage. ... (100 mile)-wide waterway that separates mainland China from Taiwan, a self-governed island ...