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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 on the southernmost point of , at the tip of Hainan island. Billed as "China's Hawaii", has 20-km stretches of beach. As the only tropical city across the coastline, it is definitely booming and packed with a lot of water sports such as snorkeling and jet-skiing, rainforest hiking, and innumerable hotels ranging from zero to five stars.

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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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The are an archipelago in the South China Sea, administered by as part of Hainan Province, but also claimed by and . They are a minor destination for patriotic Chinese citizens, not yet open to visitors from other countries.

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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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, 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.

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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 Hainanese dialect as Ban Ning, is a county-level city in the southeast of Hainan Province, . 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

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”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Hainan”
  • Afrikaans: “Hainan”
  • Amharic: “ሃይናን”
  • Arabic: “Hai nan”
  • Arabic: “Hainan”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة هاينان”
  • 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: “Hái-lâm-séng”
  • Chinese: “hǎinán shěng”
  • Chinese: “海南”
  • Chinese: “海南省”
  • Chinese: “海南经济特区”
  • Chinese: “海南經濟特區”
  • Chinese: “珠崖” (historical)
  • Chinese: “琼”
  • Chinese: “琼崖” (historical)
  • Chinese: “琼州” (historical)
  • Chinese: “瓊”
  • Chinese: “瓊崖”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hainan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Haynan”
  • Croatian: “Hainan”
  • Czech: “Chaj-nan”
  • Czech: “Hainan”
  • Danish: “Hainan”
  • Dutch: “Hainan”
  • Esperanto: “Hainan”
  • Esperanto: “Hajnan-insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Hajnano”
  • Estonian: “Hainan”
  • Estonian: “Hainani provints”
  • Finnish: “Hainan”
  • French: “Hainan”
  • French: “Province d’Hainan”
  • French: “Province de Hainan”
  • Galician: “Hainan”
  • Gan Chinese: “海南”
  • Gan Chinese: “海南省”
  • Georgian: “ხაინანი”
  • German: “CN-46”
  • German: “Hainan Dao”
  • German: “Hainan”
  • Greek: “Χαϊνάν”
  • Gujarati: “હૈનન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hói-nàm-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hoí-nám”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hói-nàm”
  • Hebrew: “האינאן”
  • Hebrew: “חאינאן”
  • Hindi: “हईनान”
  • Hindi: “हाइनान”
  • Hindi: “हैनान”
  • Hungarian: “Hainan”
  • Hungarian: “Hajnan”
  • Icelandic: “Hainan”
  • Ido: “Provinco Hainan”
  • Indonesian: “Hainan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Hainan”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Hainan”
  • Interlingua: “Hainan”
  • Irish: “Hainan”
  • Italian: “Hainan”
  • Italian: “Isola di Hainan”
  • Japanese: “海南省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “海南省”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈನಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хайнань аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Хайнань”
  • Khmer: “ហៃណាន”
  • Kirghiz: “Хайнань”
  • Kongo: “Hainan”
  • Korean: “하이난 성”
  • Korean: “하이난”
  • Korean: “하이난성”
  • Korean: “해남성”
  • Kurdish: “Hainan”
  • Lao: “ເກາະໄຫໜານ”
  • Latin: “Hainania”
  • Latvian: “Hainan”
  • Latvian: “Hainana”
  • Latvian: “Hainaņa”
  • Latvian: “Hainaņas province”
  • Literary Chinese: “海南”
  • Literary Chinese: “海南省”
  • Lithuanian: “Hainan”
  • Lithuanian: “Hainanas”
  • Lombard: “Hainan”
  • Macedonian: “Хајнан”
  • Malagasy: “Hainan”
  • Malay: “Hainan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hainan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯥꯢꯅꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Hainan”
  • Marathi: “हाइनान”
  • Marathi: “हैनान”
  • Mazanderani: “هاینان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hāi-nàng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hái-lâm-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hái-lâm”
  • Minangkabau: “Hainan”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაინანი”
  • Mongolian: “Хайнань муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хайнань”
  • Nepali: “हाइनान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hainan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hainan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hainan”
  • Norwegian: “Hainan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hainan”
  • Ossetian: “Хайнань”
  • Pampanga: “Hainan”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਈਨਾਨ”
  • Persian: “جزیره هاینان”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ هاینان”
  • Persian: “هاینان”
  • Polish: “Hainan”
  • Polish: “Hajnan”
  • Portuguese: “Ainão”
  • Portuguese: “Hainã”
  • Portuguese: “Hainan”
  • Portuguese: “Hainão”
  • Portuguese: “província de Hainan”
  • Quechua: “Hainan pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Hainan”
  • Romanian: “Insula Hainan”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Hainan”
  • Russian: “Хайнань”
  • Scots: “Hainan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hainan”
  • Serbian: “Хаинан”
  • Serbian: “Хајнан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hainan”
  • Sicilian: “Hainan”
  • Sindhi: “ھائنان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හයිනන්”
  • Slovak: “Chaj-nan”
  • Slovenian: “Hainan”
  • Slovenian: “Hajnan”
  • Spanish: “Hainan Dao”
  • Spanish: “Hainan”
  • Spanish: “isla de Hainan”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Hainan”
  • Swahili: “Hainan”
  • Swedish: “Hainan”
  • Tagalog: “Hainan”
  • Tajik: “Хайнан”
  • Tamil: “ஆய்னான்”
  • Tamil: “ஐனான் தீவு”
  • Tamil: “ஹைனன்”
  • Tatar: “Хәйнән”
  • Telugu: “హైనన్”
  • Thai: “เกาะไหหนัน”
  • Thai: “เกาะไห่หนาน”
  • Thai: “เกาะไหหลำ”
  • Thai: “มณฑลไหหนาน”
  • Thai: “มณฑลไห่หนาน”
  • Thai: “มณฑลไหหลํา”
  • Thai: “มณฑลไหหลำ”
  • Thai: “ไหหนาน”
  • Thai: “ไห่หนาน”
  • Thai: “ไหหลำ”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའེ་ནན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའེ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའེ་ནན།”
  • Turkish: “Hainan Adası”
  • Turkish: “Hainan”
  • Uighur: “Xeynen Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “خەينەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Хайнань”
  • Urdu: “ہائنان”
  • Uzbek: “Xaynan”
  • Venetian: “Hainan”
  • Vietnamese: “Hải Nam Đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “Hải Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Hải Nam”
  • Walloon: “Hainan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hainan”
  • Welsh: “Hainan”
  • Western Armenian: “Հայինան”
  • Western Frisian: “Hainan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہائینان”
  • Wu Chinese: “海南”
  • Wu Chinese: “海南省”
  • Yakut: “Хайнань”
  • Yue Chinese: “海南”
  • Yue Chinese: “海南岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “海南島”
  • Yue Chinese: “海南省”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓊”
  • Zhuang: “Haijnanz”
  • “ma Anan”

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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 “Hainan”. Photo: Carsten Ullrich, CC BY-SA 2.0.