Hainan

Hainan is an island province of , famous for its tropical beaches. It has a thriving tourist industry and is being heavily promoted as "China's Hawaii".
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is the capital and largest city of Hainan Province in southern and is at the north end of the Hainan Island. is a tropical coastal city that, as one of the least developed provincial capitals, has a somewhat laid-back atmosphere.

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is on the southernmost point of , at the tip of Hainan island. Billed as "China's Hawaii", has 20-km stretches of beach and palm trees.

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is in the northwest of 's southernmost province, the island of Hainan. Population was just under a million as of 2010.

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is located in Fenghuang Village, Yanglang Town, in the northwest of City, Hainan Province, about 14 kilometers east of Sanya City Center and 5 kilometers west of Tianya Haijiao Tourist Scenic Area.

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, also called Keng Hai, is a county-level city in Hainan, China. It is located in the east of Hainan Island. Kachek city was the capital of Keng Hai, which was the second largest city in Hainan island.

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is a county-level city in the northeast of Hainan Island in China. Covering an area of 2,403 square kilometres, the city has a coastline of 207 kilometres, and is divided into 17 towns.

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, or in local Hainamese dialect as Van Neing or Ban Neing, is a county-level city in the southeast of Hainan Province, China. Although called a "city", refers to both the county seat and to the entire county as a whole.

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is one of the five county-level cities of Hainan province, China. Although called a "city", refers to a large land area in Hainan - an area which was once a county.

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is a city in Hainan's central highlands. It is a scenic town with very few tourists, lively markets and exceedingly cheap food.

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County is a county in the south east of Hainan, . is not as built-up as other parts of Hainan such as or and as a result it retains its unspoilt charm.

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County is a county in Hainan, China. It is one of four counties of Hainan. Its postal code is 571900. In 2002, its population was 490,800.

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Li and Miao Autonomous County is an autonomous county in Hainan, China. One of the six autonomous counties on the island, its postal code is 572300. spans an area of 1,153.24 square kilometres, and has a population of about 168,000 as of 2020.

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County is an administrative district in Hainan province, China. It is one of the 4 counties of Hainan. Its postal code is 571800, and in 1999, its population was 399,057 people, who mainly speak the Be language.

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, also known as the Li Autonomous County, is a county in the central region of Hainan Island.

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Bo'ao is a town on the east coast of Hainan in . It is administratively part of the county-level city of .

Hainan

  • Type: State with 10,100,000 residents
  • Description: province of China
  • Also known as: “CN-46”, “Hải Nam Đảo”, “Hai nan”, “Hái-lâm”, “Hainã”, “Hainan Adası”, “Hainan Dao”, “Hainan province”, “Hainan Province”, “Hainana”, “Hainaņas province”, “Hainão”, “Hajnan-insulo”, “Hoí-nám”, “Hói-nàm-sén”, “Insula Hainan”, “isla de Hainan”, “Isola di Hainan”, “Province d’Hainan”, “província de Hainan”, “Provincia Hainan”, “Provinsi Hainan”, “Pulau Hainan”, “Tỉnh Hải Nam”, “Wilayah Hainan”, “Xeynen Ölkisi”, “Хаинан”, “חאינאן”, “جزيرة هاينان”, “جزیره هاینان”, “جزیرهٔ هاینان”, “हईनान”, “हैनान”, “ஐனான் தீவு”, “ஹைனன்”, “เกาะไหหนัน”, “เกาะไห่หนาน”, “เกาะไหหลำ”, “มณฑลไหหนาน”, “มณฑลไห่หนาน”, “มณฑลไหหลํา”, “ไหหนาน”, “ไห่หนาน”, “ไหหลำ”, “ཧའེ་ནན་”, “ཧའེ་ནན།”, “하이난”, “하이난 성”, “해남성”, “海南岛”, “海南島”, “海南省 (中華人民共和国)”, “海南經濟特區”, “海南经济特区”, “琼”, “琼州府”, “瓊”, and “瓊崖”
  • Historically known as: “Qiongya”, “Qiongzhou”, and “Zhuya”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , and
  • Categories: province of China, first-level administrative division, and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
19.2074° or 19° 12′ 27″ north
Longitude of center
109.7809° or 109° 46′ 51″ east
Population
10,100,000
Elevation
174 metres (571 feet)
Abbreviation
“琼”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080524
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1809054
Wiki­data ID
Q42200
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Hainan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hainan”
  • Afrikaans: “Hainan”
  • Amharic: “ሀይናን”
  • Amharic: “ሃይናን”
  • Arabic: “هاينان”
  • Armenian: “Հայնան (նահանգ)”
  • Armenian: “Հայնան”
  • Asturian: “Hainan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haynan”
  • Balinese: “Hainan”
  • Basque: “Hainan”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Хайнань”
  • Belarusian: “Хайнань”
  • Bengali: “হাইনান”
  • Breton: “Hainan”
  • Bulgarian: “Хайнан”
  • Catalan: “Hainan”
  • Cebuano: “Hainan Sheng”
  • Central Bikol: “Hainan”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھاینان”
  • Chechen: “Хайнань”
  • Chinese: “hǎinán shěng”
  • Chinese: “海南”
  • Chinese: “海南省”
  • Chinese: “珠崖” (historical)
  • Chinese: “琼崖” (historical)
  • Chinese: “琼州” (historical)
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hainan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Haynan”
  • Croatian: “Hainan”
  • Czech: “Chaj-nan”
  • Danish: “Hainan”
  • Dutch: “Hainan”
  • Esperanto: “Hajnano”
  • Estonian: “Hainani provints”
  • Finnish: “Hainan”
  • French: “Hainan”
  • French: “Province de Hainan”
  • Galician: “Hainan”
  • Gan Chinese: “海南”
  • Gan Chinese: “海南省”
  • Georgian: “ხაინანი”
  • German: “Hainan”
  • Greek: “Χαϊνάν”
  • Gujarati: “હૈનન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hói-nàm”
  • Hausa: “Hainan”
  • Hebrew: “האינאן”
  • Hindi: “हाइनान”
  • Hungarian: “Hajnan”
  • Icelandic: “Hainan”
  • Ido: “Provinco Hainan”
  • Indonesian: “Hainan”
  • Interlingua: “Hainan”
  • Irish: “Hainan”
  • Italian: “Hainan”
  • Japanese: “海南”
  • Japanese: “海南省”
  • Javanese: “Hainan”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈನಾನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ہاینان”
  • Kazakh: “Айнань”
  • Kazakh: “Хайнань аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Хайнань”
  • Khmer: “ហៃណាន”
  • Kirghiz: “Айнань”
  • Kirghiz: “Хайнан”
  • Kongo: “Hainan”
  • Korean: “하이난성”
  • Kurdish: “Hainan”
  • Lao: “ເກາະໄຫໜານ”
  • Latin: “Hainania”
  • Latvian: “Hainaņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “海南省”
  • Lithuanian: “Hainanas”
  • Lombard: “Hainan”
  • Macedonian: “Хајнан”
  • Malagasy: “Hainan”
  • Malay: “Hainan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯥꯢꯅꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Hainan”
  • Marathi: “हाइनान”
  • Mazanderani: “هاینان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hāi-nàng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hái-lâm-séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Hainan”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაინანი”
  • Mongolian: “Хайнань муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хайнань”
  • Nepali: “हाइनान”
  • Newari: “हाइनान प्रान्त”
  • Newari: “हाइनान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hainan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hainan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hainan”
  • Norwegian: “Hainan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hainan”
  • Oromo: “Hainan”
  • Ossetian: “Хайнань”
  • Pampanga: “Hainan”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਈਨਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਨਾਨ”
  • Persian: “هاینان”
  • Polish: “Hajnan”
  • Portuguese: “Ainão”
  • Portuguese: “Hainan”
  • Pushto: “هاينان”
  • Quechua: “Hainan pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Hainan”
  • Russian: “Хайнань”
  • Scots: “Hainan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hainan”
  • Serbian: “Хајнан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hainan”
  • Sicilian: “Hainan”
  • Sindhi: “ھائنان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හයිනන්”
  • Slovak: “Chaj-nan”
  • Slovenian: “Hainan”
  • Somali: “Hainan”
  • Spanish: “Hainan”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Hainan”
  • Swahili: “Hainan”
  • Swedish: “Hainan”
  • Tagalog: “Hainan”
  • Tajik: “Айнань”
  • Tajik: “Хайнан”
  • Tamil: “ஆய்னான்”
  • Tatar: “Айнань”
  • Tatar: “Хәйнән”
  • Telugu: “హైనన్”
  • Thai: “มณฑลไหหลำ”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའེ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Hainan”
  • Uighur: “خەينەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Хайнань”
  • Urdu: “ہائنان”
  • Uzbek: “Xaynan”
  • Venetian: “Hainan”
  • Vietnamese: “Hải Nam”
  • Walloon: “Hainan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hainan”
  • Welsh: “Hainan”
  • Western Armenian: “Հայինան”
  • Western Frisian: “Hainan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہائینان”
  • Wu Chinese: “海南省”
  • Yakut: “Хайнань”
  • Yue Chinese: “海南”
  • Yue Chinese: “海南省”
  • Zhuang: “Haijnanz”
  • “ma Anan”

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