Kinmen
Kinmen is a county comprising a number of outlying islands near the People's Republic of China but controlled by the Taiwan-based Republic of China government.
- County with about 138,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 90 metres (280 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code KNH
- Description: small archipelago of several islands in Fujian Province, ROC
- Also known as“Chin-men”“Chin-men Hsien”“Chin-men Tao”“Fu-chien”“Fu-chien Sheng”“Jinmen County”“Jinmen Sian”“Jinmen Xian”“Kinmen County”“Quemoy”“Wudao”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Juguang Tower and Kinmen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jincheng and Jinning.
Jincheng
Town
Jincheng Township is an urban township on the southwestern corner of the island of Kinmen.
Kinmen
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Latitude
24.4368° or 24° 26′ 12″ north
Longitude
118.3186° or 118° 19′ 7″ east
UN/LOCODE
TW KNH
Open location code
7PPWC8P9+PF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zhuang—“Kinmen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كنمن”
- Arabic: “كينمن”
- Azerbaijani: “Szinmınsyundao”
- Basque: “Kinmen”
- Bengali: “কিনমেন”
- Bengali: “কোয়েময়”
- Catalan: “Kinmen”
- Cebuano: “Kinmen (lalawigan sa Republika sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Kinmen”
- Chinese: “Jīnmén Xiàn”
- Chinese: “浯島”
- Chinese: “浯州”
- Chinese: “金縣”
- Chinese: “金門”
- Chinese: “金門縣”
- Chinese: “金门县”
- Czech: “Okres Ťin-men”
- Czech: “Ťin-men”
- Danish: “Kinmen”
- Dutch: “Kinmen”
- Esperanto: “Ĝinmenoj”
- Estonian: “Jinmen”
- Finnish: “Jinmen”
- Finnish: “Kinmen”
- French: “Jinmen”
- French: “Kinmen”
- Gan Chinese: “金門縣”
- German: “Kinmen”
- Greek: “Κίνμεν”
- Gujarati: “કિનમેન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kîm-mùn-yen”
- Hebrew: “ג’ינמן”
- Hebrew: “קואמוי”
- Hindi: “किन्मेन”
- Hungarian: “Csinmen-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “County Kinmen”
- Italian: “Kinmen”
- Japanese: “金門県”
- Kannada: “ಕಿನ್ಮೆನ್”
- Korean: “진먼 현”
- Ladin: “Kinmen”
- Latvian: “Dzjiņmeņa”
- Latvian: “Dzjiņmeņas salas”
- Literary Chinese: “金門縣”
- Lithuanian: “Dzinmenas”
- Madurese: “Kinmen”
- Malay: “Kaunti Kinmen”
- Malay: “Kinmen”
- Malay: “Quemoy”
- Malayalam: “കിന്മെൻ”
- Marathi: “किमेन”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭng-muòng-gâing”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭng-muòng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ging-meóng-gā̤ⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kim-mn̂g-koāiⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kim-mn̂g-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kim-mn̂g-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ngôo-tó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “金門縣”
- Mirandese: “Kinmen”
- Mongolian: “Жиньмэнь”
- Northern Frisian: “Kinmen (Lunkreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kinmen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kinmen”
- Norwegian: “Kinmen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kinmen”
- Persian: “کینمن”
- Polish: “Kinmen”
- Portuguese: “Kinmen”
- Portuguese: “Quemói”
- Russian: “Цзиньмынь”
- Russian: “Цзиньмэнь”
- Sakizaya: “Cin-men a kuwan”
- Sakizaya: “Cin-men sakuwan”
- Sinhala: “කින්මෙන්”
- Slovak: “Ťin-men”
- Slovenian: “Kinmen”
- Spanish: “Kinmen”
- Swedish: “Kinmen”
- Tamil: “கின்மேன்”
- Telugu: “కిన్మెన్”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะจินเหมิน”
- Turkish: “Kinmen”
- Ukrainian: “Цзіньмень”
- Urdu: “کنمن”
- Vietnamese: “Kim Môn”
- Wu Chinese: “金門縣”
- Yoruba: “Kinmen”
- Yue Chinese: “金門”
- Zhuang: “Ginhmwnz”
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