Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Ganquan Island Site 甘泉岛遗址: Tang to Song: Paracel Islands: 6-174 North Reef Wreck Sites 北礁沉船遗址: Tang to Qing: Paracel Islands-Spratly Islands-Macclesfield Bank: 6-175 Old Danzhou City 儋州故城: Tang to Qing: Danzhou: 6-176
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 ...
Located approximately 3 km northeast of Haidian Island, this is an under-construction artificial island. Simapo Island: Located in the Nandu River directly to the south of the Qiongzhou Bridge, this island was once farmland, and is now being developed as a golf course. Wuzhizhou Island: This island is located off the coast of Hainan Province ...
The Hainan Island Operation (Chinese: 瓊崖戰役), or Kainan-tō sakusen (海南島作戦) in Japanese, was part of a campaign by the Empire of Japan during the Second World War to blockade the Guangdong mainland and prevent it from communicating with the outside world and from receiving imports of much-needed arms and materials.
The Hainan communists used access to Hlai territory to grow within the ROC blockade. [6] [15] Maintaining communications with the mainland CCP remained difficult. CCP orders to abandon the island in 1946 were rejected by the Hainan communists, [15] who spent the years following the Japanese withdrawal building popular support. [16]
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.
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 ]