Fujian
Fujian is a coastal province in East China. It has long been an outward-looking province, much involved in maritime trade, and is the ancestral homeland for many overseas Chinese, especially in Southeast Asia.
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South Fujian
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East Fujian
East Fujian is an area of Fujian Province in China.
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- 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: “Bā Mǐn”, “Bāmǐn”, “CN-35”, “Fo-kien”, “Fo’kien”, “Foe-tjien”, “Foetjien”, “Fokien”, “Fou Kien”, “Fou-kien”, “Foukien”, “Fu Jian”, “Fu Jian Sheng”, “Fu kien”, “Fu Kien”, “Fu-chien”, “Fu-chien Sheng”, “Fu-kien”, “Fuchien”, “Fucien”, “Fuđen”, “Fudzjaņas province”, “Fuĝjan”, “Fujian (China)”, “Fujian (Volksrepubliek China)”, “Fujian Province”, “Fújiàn shěng”, “Fujiang Province”, “Fujiani provints”, “Fujyen Ölkisi”, “Fuk-kian-sén”, “Fuk-kien-sén”, “Fukien”, “Fukien Province”, “Hók-gióng-sēng”, “Hok-kiàn”, “Hok-kiàn-síng”, “Hokkien”, “Mǐn”, “Phước Kiến”, “Propinsi Fujian”, “Province of Fujian”, “província de Fujian”, “Provinsi Fujian”, “Provinz Fujian”, “Tỉnh Phúc Kiến”, “Wilayah Fujian”, “Φουτζιάν”, “Фу-цзянь”, “Фудзян”, “Фуђиен”, “הוקין”, “פוג’יאן”, “פוקין”, “فوجيانگ ولايت”, “فوجی آن”, “فوجیآن”, “مقاطعة فوجيان”, “फ़ुजियान”, “फूज्यान”, “มณฑลฮกเกี้ยน”, “ཧྥུ་ཅན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཧྥུའུ་ཅན་”, “ཧྥུའུ་ཅན།”, “복건”, “복건 성”, “복건성”, “푸젠”, “フーチェン”, “七閩”, “八姓入ビン”, “八閩”, “八闽”, “福建省 (中华人民共和国)”, “福建省 (中華人民共和国)”, “閩”, and “闽”
- Neighbors: Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang
- Categories: province of China and locality
- Location: East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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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”
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Fujian” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Fujian”
- Afrikaans: “Foekien”
- Afrikaans: “Fujian”
- Amharic: “ፉጂያን”
- Arabic: “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”
- Bengali: “ফুজিয়ান”
- Betawi: “Hokkièn”
- Bosnian: “Fujian”
- Breton: “Fujian”
- Bulgarian: “Фудзиен”
- Burmese: “ဖူကျန့်ပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Fujian”
- Cebuano: “Fujian Sheng”
- Chechen: “Фуцзянь”
- Chinese: “Fújiàn Shěng”
- Chinese: “福建”
- Chinese: “福建省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Fucân”
- Crimean Tatar: “Fujian”
- Croatian: “Fujian”
- Czech: “Fu-ťien”
- Danish: “Fujian”
- Dutch: “Fujian”
- Esperanto: “Fuĝjano”
- Estonian: “Fujian”
- Finnish: “Fujian”
- French: “Fujian”
- French: “Fújiàn”
- French: “Province de Fujian”
- Galician: “Fujian”
- Gan Chinese: “福建”
- Gan Chinese: “福建省”
- Georgian: “ფუძიანი”
- Georgian: “ფუძიენი”
- German: “Fujian”
- Greek: “Φουτσιάν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kian”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fuk-kien”
- Hausa: “Fujian”
- Hebrew: “Фуцзянь”
- Hebrew: “פוג’יין”
- Hebrew: “פוגיין”
- Hindi: “फ़ूज्यान”
- Hungarian: “Fucsien”
- Icelandic: “Fujian”
- Ido: “Provinco Fujian”
- Indonesian: “Fujian”
- Interlingua: “Fujian”
- Irish: “Fujian”
- Italian: “Fujian”
- Japanese: “福建”
- Japanese: “福建省”
- Javanese: “Fujian”
- Kashmiri: “فوٗجیٛان”
- Kazakh: “Фуцзянь”
- Khmer: “ហ្វូជៀន”
- Kirghiz: “Фужян”
- Kirghiz: “Фуцзянь”
- Kongo: “Fujian”
- Korean: “푸젠 성”
- Korean: “푸젠성”
- Kurdish: “Fujian”
- Lao: “ຟູຈຽນ”
- Latin: “Fochiena”
- Latin: “Fujian”
- Latvian: “Fudzjaņa”
- Literary Chinese: “福建”
- Literary Chinese: “福建省”
- Lithuanian: “Fudzianas”
- Lombard: “Fujian”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Fujian”
- Macedonian: “Фуџјиан”
- Malagasy: “Fujian”
- Malay: “Fujian”
- Maltese: “Fujian”
- Manipuri: “ꯐꯨꯖ꯭ꯌꯥꯟ”
- Manx: “Fujian”
- Marathi: “फूच्यान”
- Mazanderani: “فوجیان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hók-gióng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hok-kiàn-séng”
- Mingrelian: “ფუძიანი”
- Mongolian: “Фужянь муж”
- Nepali: “फुजियान”
- Newari: “फुजियान”
- Northern Frisian: “Fujian”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fujian”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fujian”
- Norwegian: “Fujian”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fujian”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fucian”
- Oromo: “Fujian”
- Ossetian: “Фуцзянь”
- Pampanga: “Fujian”
- Panjabi: “ਫੁਜਿਆਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਫੂਜਾਨ”
- Persian: “فوجیان”
- Polish: “Fujian”
- Portuguese: “Fujian”
- Portuguese: “Fuquiém”
- Pushto: “فوجيان”
- Quechua: “Fujian pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Fujian”
- Russian: “Фуцзянь”
- Scots: “Fujian”
- Serbian: “Фуђен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fujian”
- Slovak: “Fu-ťien”
- Slovenian: “Fudžijan”
- Slovenian: “Fudžjan”
- Somali: “Fujian”
- Spanish: “Fujian”
- Swahili: “Fujian”
- Swedish: “Fujian”
- Tagalog: “Fujian”
- Tajik: “Фуцзянь”
- Tajik: “Фуҷиан”
- Tamil: “புஜியான் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Фуҗиян”
- Tatar: “Фуцзянь”
- Thai: “มณฑลฝูเจี้ยน”
- Tibetan: “ཧྥུའུ་ཅན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Turkish: “Fujian”
- Uighur: “فۇجيەن ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Фуцзянь”
- Urdu: “فوجیان”
- Uzbek: “Fucjan”
- Uzbek: “Futszyan”
- Venetian: “Fujian”
- Vietnamese: “Phúc Kiến”
- Walloon: “Foujian”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fujian”
- Welsh: “Fujian”
- Western Armenian: “Ֆուճիան”
- Western Panjabi: “فوجیان”
- Wu Chinese: “福建省”
- Yue Chinese: “福建”
- Zhuang: “Fuzgen”
- “ma Pukijen”
- “福建”
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