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.
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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: Fukien, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
26.37° or 26° 22′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
120.4955° or 120° 29′ 44″ east
Population
12,700
Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)
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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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