Matsu
Matsu is the name for a group of islands off China's southern coast, approximately 160 km NW from the island of Taiwan. The island falls under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan-based Republic of China, and along with Kinmen, forms the front lines between the ROC and the People's Republic of China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nangan and Beigan.
Nangan
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Nangan is an island in the Matsu region of Taiwan. It is the primary and governing island for the Matsu Islands. It is also the largest of the islands.
Beigan
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Beigan Township, is an insular rural township in Lienchiang County, Taiwan. The township is in the East China Sea off the coast of Fujian Province, China near Fuzhou.
Dongyin
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Dongyin Township is an insular rural township which is part of Lienchiang County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. The islands are in the East China Sea off the coast of Fujian Province, China near the cities of Fuzhou and Ningde.
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Jyuguang
Jyuguang is an island township in the Matsu region of Taiwan. Juguang Township includes two major islands, Dongju Island and Xiju Island, as well as some islets.
Matsu
- Type: archipelago with 12,700 residents
- Description: archipelago of 19 islands and islets in Fujian Province, ROC
- Also known as: “Lianjiang Sian”, “Lianjiang Xian”, “Lien-chiang”, “Lien-chiang Hsien”, “Lienchiang”, “Lienchiang County”, and “Matsu Islands”
- Category: island group
- Location: 福建省, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Matsu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر ماتسو”
- Azerbaijani: “Maszu adaları”
- Basque: “Matsu uharteak”
- Bengali: “মাৎসু দীপপুঞ্জ”
- Catalan: “Matsu”
- Cebuano: “Mazu Liedao”
- Chinese: “Má-chó͘-tó”
- Chinese: “連江縣”
- Chinese: “馬祖”
- Chinese: “馬祖列島”
- Chinese: “马祖列岛”
- Czech: “Ma-cu”
- Czech: “Souostroví Ma-cu”
- Danish: “Matsu Islands”
- Dutch: “Matsu-archipel”
- Esperanto: “Macuoj”
- Estonian: “Matsu saared”
- Finnish: “Lienchiangin piirikunta”
- Finnish: “Matsu”
- French: “îles Matsu”
- French: “Îles Matsu”
- German: “Matsu-Inseln”
- German: “Matsu”
- Greek: “Νησιά Μάτσου”
- Gujarati: “માત્સુ આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mâ-chú-tó”
- Hebrew: “איי מאדזו”
- Hebrew: “מטסו”
- Hindi: “मत्सु द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Macu-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Matsueyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Matsu”
- Italian: “Isole Matsu”
- Italian: “Matsu”
- Japanese: “馬祖列島”
- Japanese: “馬祖国家風景区”
- Japanese: “馬祖島”
- Javanese: “Kapuloan Matsu”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಟ್ಸು ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
- Korean: “롄장 현”
- Korean: “마쭈 열도”
- Latvian: “Macu salas”
- Latvian: “Madzu salas”
- Literary Chinese: “馬祖列島”
- Lithuanian: “Macu salos”
- Malay: “Matsu Islands”
- Marathi: “मात्सु आईसलँडस”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Mā-cū”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Má-chó͘-tó”
- Mongolian: “Мазү”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matsuøyene”
- Norwegian: “Matsuøyene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Matsu”
- Persian: “جزایر ماتسو”
- Polish: “Mazu Liedao”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lienchiang”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Matsu”
- Russian: “Мацзу”
- Sakizaya: “Ma-cu kasikac a subal”
- Scots: “Lienchiang Coonty”
- Scots: “Matsu Islands”
- Sinhala: “මට්සු දූපත්”
- Slovenian: “Otočje Matsu”
- Spanish: “Islas Matsu”
- Swedish: “Matsuöarna”
- Tamil: “மாட்சு இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “మాటె్సు దీవులు”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะหมาจู่”
- Turkish: “Matsu Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Мацзу”
- Urdu: “جزائر ماتسو”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Mã Tổ”
- Wu Chinese: “馬祖列島”
- Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùṣù Matsu”
- Yue Chinese: “馬祖”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Matsu”. Photo: Joe Lo, CC BY-SA 2.0.