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Taiwan
福建省

Kinmen

Kinmen is a county comprising a number of outlying islands near the People's Republic of but controlled by the -based Republic of China government.
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  • Type: County with 128,000 residents
  • 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”, “Ging-meóng-gā̤ⁿ”, “Jinmen County”, “Jinmen Sian”, “Jinmen Xian”, “Kim-mng”, “Kinmen County”, “Ngôo-tó”, “Quemoy”, and “Wudao”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Juguang Tower and Kinmen.

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The is a tower in , Kinmen County, , .

Town hall
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is a town hall.

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The is a in , Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jincheng and Jinning.

Town
Township is an urban township on the southwestern corner of the island of Kinmen. It is the county seat of Kinmen County, . was the seat of the ROC's from 1949–1956 and 1996–2018.

Town
Township is a rural township in Kinmen, Republic of China. It is in the Taiwan Strait, on the coast of mainland China. It has a population of 34,569 and an area of 29.8540 km2.

Hamlet
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Zhushan is a village in Zhusha urban village of , Kinmen County, Fujian Province, . It is also the home of the Xue clan in Kinmen.

Kinmen

Latitude
24.4368° or 24° 26′ 12″ north
Longitude
118.3186° or 118° 19′ 7″ east
Population
128,000
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
IATA airport code
KNH
United Nations Location Code
TW KNH
Open location code
7PPWC8P9+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2703829508
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1676511
Wiki­data ID
Q249870
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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: “কোয়েময়”
  • Catalan: “Kinmen”
  • Cebuano: “Kinmen (lalawigan sa Republika sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Kinmen”
  • Chinese: “Jīnmén Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “Kim-mn̂g-koān”
  • 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: “Κινμέν”
  • 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”
  • Korean: “진먼현”
  • Ladin: “Kinmen”
  • Latvian: “Dzjiņmeņa”
  • Latvian: “Dzjiņmeņas salas”
  • Literary Chinese: “金門縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Dzinmenas”
  • 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: “Цзиньмыньдао”
  • 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”
  • “金門縣”

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