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Fujian

Fujian is a coastal province in . It has long been an outward-looking province, much involved in maritime trade, and is the ancestral homeland for many overseas Chinese, especially in .
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is the capital of Fujian Province in . An older romanisation is "Foochow". Population is about 4.4 million in the city, 7.1 million for the whole prefecture.

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is a coastal city in Fujian Province in . It has been an important port for centuries and became one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in 1980.

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is a coastal city in Fujian Province north of and south of . Older romanisations, no longer in use, include Ch'üan-chou, Chuanchow and Chinchew.

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is a populous region in Fujian Province that has been doing foreign trade for centuries. It is the ancestral home for many overseas Chinese.

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is an area of Fujian Province in .

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is an area of Fujian Province in ; in Chinese it is sometimes referred to as mǐnxī, West Fujian. The province's main cities are along the coast; the inland region is mainly mountains and agricultural areas.
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Fujian

  • Type: State with 41,500,000 residents
  • Description: province of the People’s Republic of China, covering the mountainous coast opposite Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Fo-kien”, “Fo’kien”, “Fokien”, “Fou Kien”, “Fou-kien”, “Foukien”, “Fu Kien”, “Fu-chien”, “Fu-chien Sheng”, “Fu-kien”, “Fuchien”, “Fujian Province”, “Fujiang Province”, “Fukien”, “Fukien Province”, and “Province of Fujian”
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: province of China and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
26.1932° or 26° 11′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
118.2209° or 118° 13′ 15″ east
Population
41,500,000
Elevation
587 metres (1,926 feet)
Abbreviation
“闽”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244079315
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1811017
Wiki­data ID
Q41705
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Fujian” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Fujian”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Fujian”
  • Afrikaans: “Foekien”
  • Afrikaans: “Fujian”
  • Arabic: “فوجيان”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة فوجيان”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուջիան”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուցզյան”
  • Asturian: “Fujian”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fucyen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Futszyan”
  • Balinese: “Fujian”
  • Basque: “Fujian”
  • Batak Toba: “Fujian”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Фуцзянь”
  • Belarusian: “Фуцзянь”
  • Belarusian: “Фуцьзянь”
  • Bengali: “ফুচিয়েন”
  • Betawi: “Hokkièn”
  • Bosnian: “Fuđen”
  • Bosnian: “Fujian”
  • Breton: “Fujian”
  • Bulgarian: “Фудзиен”
  • Bulgarian: “Фудзян”
  • Burmese: “ဖူကျန့်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Fujian”
  • Catalan: “Fukien”
  • Cebuano: “Fujian Sheng”
  • Chechen: “Фуцзянь”
  • Chinese: “Bā Mǐn”
  • Chinese: “Bāmǐn”
  • Chinese: “CN-35”
  • Chinese: “Fújiàn shěng”
  • Chinese: “Fújiàn Shěng”
  • Chinese: “Fújiàn”
  • Chinese: “Hok-kiàn-séng”
  • Chinese: “Mǐn”
  • Chinese: “七閩”
  • Chinese: “八閩”
  • Chinese: “八闽”
  • Chinese: “福建”
  • Chinese: “福建省 (中华人民共和国)”
  • Chinese: “福建省”
  • Chinese: “閩”
  • Chinese: “闽”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Fudzân”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Fujian”
  • Croatian: “Fujian”
  • Czech: “Fu-ťien”
  • Czech: “Fujian”
  • Danish: “Foukien”
  • Danish: “Fu-chien”
  • Danish: “Fujian”
  • Dutch: “Foe-tjien”
  • Dutch: “Foekien”
  • Dutch: “Foetjien”
  • Dutch: “Fuchien”
  • Dutch: “Fujian (China)”
  • Dutch: “Fujian (Volksrepubliek China)”
  • Dutch: “Fujian”
  • Dutch: “Fukien”
  • Esperanto: “Fuĝjan”
  • Esperanto: “Fuĝjano”
  • Esperanto: “Fujian”
  • Estonian: “Fujian”
  • Estonian: “Fujiani provints”
  • Finnish: “Foukien”
  • Finnish: “Fujian”
  • Finnish: “Fukien”
  • French: “Fo-kien”
  • French: “Fokien”
  • French: “Fou-kien”
  • French: “Fujian”
  • French: “Fújiàn”
  • French: “Fukien”
  • French: “Province de Fujian”
  • Galician: “Fujian”
  • Gan Chinese: “福建”
  • Gan Chinese: “福建省”
  • Georgian: “ფუძიანი”
  • German: “Fujian”
  • German: “Fukien”
  • German: “Provinz Fujian”
  • Greek: “Φουτζιάν”
  • Greek: “Φουτσιάν”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kian-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kian”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kien-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kien”
  • Hebrew: “Фуцзянь”
  • Hebrew: “הוקין”
  • Hebrew: “פוג’יאן”
  • Hebrew: “פוג’יין”
  • Hebrew: “פוגיין”
  • Hebrew: “פוקין”
  • Hindi: “फ़ुजियान”
  • Hindi: “फ़ूज्यान”
  • Hungarian: “Fucsien”
  • Hungarian: “Fujian”
  • Icelandic: “Fujian”
  • Ido: “Provinco Fujian”
  • Indonesian: “Fujian”
  • Indonesian: “Fukien”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Fujian”
  • Interlingua: “Fujian”
  • Irish: “Fujian”
  • Italian: “Fuchien”
  • Italian: “Fujian”
  • Japanese: “フーチェン”
  • Japanese: “八姓入ビン”
  • Japanese: “福建”
  • Japanese: “福建省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “福建省”
  • Javanese: “Fujian”
  • Kazakh: “Фуцзянь”
  • Khmer: “ហ្វូជៀន”
  • Kongo: “Fujian”
  • Korean: “복건 성”
  • Korean: “복건”
  • Korean: “복건성”
  • Korean: “푸젠 성”
  • Korean: “푸젠”
  • Korean: “푸젠성”
  • Kurdish: “Fujian”
  • Lao: “ຟູຈຽນ”
  • Latin: “Fochiena”
  • Latin: “Fujian”
  • Latvian: “Fudzjaņa”
  • Latvian: “Fudzjaņas province”
  • Latvian: “Fujian”
  • Literary Chinese: “福建”
  • Literary Chinese: “福建省”
  • Lithuanian: “Fudzianas”
  • Lithuanian: “Fujian”
  • Lombard: “Fujian”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Fujian”
  • Macedonian: “Фуџјиан”
  • Malagasy: “Fujian”
  • Malay: “Fujian”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Fujian”
  • Maltese: “Fujian”
  • Manipuri: “ꯐꯨꯖ꯭ꯌꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Fujian”
  • Marathi: “फुजियान”
  • Marathi: “फूच्यान”
  • Marathi: “फूज्यान”
  • Mazanderani: “فوجیان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hók-gióng-sēng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hók-gióng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hok-kiàn-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hok-kiàn-síng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hok-kiàn”
  • Mingrelian: “ფუძიანი”
  • Mongolian: “Фужянь муж”
  • Nepali: “फुजियान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fujian”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fujian”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukien”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fujian”
  • Norwegian: “Fujian”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fujian”
  • Ossetian: “Фуцзянь”
  • Pampanga: “Fujian”
  • Panjabi: “ਫੂਜਾਨ”
  • Persian: “فوجی آن”
  • Persian: “فوجی‌آن”
  • Persian: “فوجیان”
  • Polish: “Fucien”
  • Polish: “Fujian”
  • Polish: “Fukien”
  • Portuguese: “Fujian”
  • Portuguese: “Fuquiém”
  • Portuguese: “província de Fujian”
  • Pushto: “فوجيان”
  • Pushto: “فوجيانگ ولايت”
  • Quechua: “Fujian pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Fujian”
  • Russian: “Фу-цзянь”
  • Russian: “Фуцзянь”
  • Scots: “Fujian”
  • Scots: “福建”
  • Serbian: “Фуђен”
  • Serbian: “Фуђиен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fuđen”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fujian”
  • Slovak: “Fu-ťien”
  • Slovenian: “Fudžijan”
  • Slovenian: “Fudžjan”
  • Slovenian: “Fujian”
  • Spanish: “Fu kien”
  • Spanish: “Fu-kien”
  • Spanish: “Fujian”
  • Swahili: “Fujian”
  • Swedish: “Fu Jian”
  • Swedish: “Fu-kien”
  • Swedish: “Fujian”
  • Swedish: “Fukien”
  • Swedish: “Hokkien”
  • Tagalog: “Fujian”
  • Tajik: “Фуҷиан”
  • Tamil: “புஜியான் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Фуҗиян”
  • Thai: “มณฑลฝูเจี้ยน”
  • Thai: “มณฑลฮกเกี้ยน”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྥུ་ཅན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྥུའུ་ཅན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྥུའུ་ཅན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧྥུའུ་ཅན།”
  • Turkish: “Fujian”
  • Uighur: “Fujyen Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “فۇجيەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Фуцзянь”
  • Urdu: “فوجیان”
  • Uzbek: “Futszyan”
  • Venetian: “Fujian”
  • Vietnamese: “Phúc Kiến”
  • Vietnamese: “Phước Kiến”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Phúc Kiến”
  • Walloon: “Foujian”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fujian”
  • Welsh: “Fujian”
  • Western Armenian: “Ֆուճիան”
  • Western Panjabi: “فوجیان”
  • Wu Chinese: “福建省”
  • Yue Chinese: “福建”
  • Yue Chinese: “福建省”
  • Zhuang: “Fuzgen”
  • “福建”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fujian”. Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.