South Fujian
South Fujian is a populous region in Fujian Province that has been doing foreign trade for centuries. It is the ancestral home for many overseas Chinese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Xiamen and Quanzhou.
Xiamen
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Xiamen is a coastal city in Fujian Province in China. It has been an important port for centuries and became one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in 1980.
Quanzhou
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Quanzhou is a coastal city in Fujian Province north of Xiamen and south of Fuzhou. Older romanisations, no longer in use, include Ch'üan-chou, Chuanchow and Chinchew.
Zhangzhou
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Zhangzhou is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and surrounding the prefecture of Xiamen.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Putian and Gulangyu.
Putian
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Putian Putian, located on the southeast coast of Fujian Province, China, is a city with a long history and rich cultural heritage, and is known as the hometown of Mazu, the "goddess of peace on the sea".
Gulangyu
Gulangyu is an island in Xiamen, a few minutes by ferry from downtown. It has a population around 17,000 and an area of about 2 km². It was a foreign enclave from the 1840s until the 1930s, and is now a residential suburb, a major tourist area, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Jinjiang
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Jinjiang is a mainly industrial city just across the river from Quanzhou in Fujian. Administratively, it is a county-level city in Quanzhou Prefecture, but for practical purposes it can be thought of as a suburb of Quanzhou.
Shishi
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Shishi is a small city in Fujian, located between Xiamen and Quanzhou. The main industries are clothing factories and stone quarries.
Tong’an
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Tong'an District is a northern mainland district of Xiamen which faces Quemoy County, Republic of China. To the north is Anxi and Nan'an, and to the south is Jimei.
Hui’an
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Hui'an is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China. It is situated in the middle of the Fujian coast, between Quanzhou and Meizhou Bay.
Dehua
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Dehua County is a region in Quanzhou prefecture. The name Dehua can refer either to the county as a whole or to the market town which is its center. There is a local government website, but as of June 2025, it is entirely in Chinese.
Xiang’an
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Xiang'an is one of the districts of Xiamen, People's Republic of China. It is located on the mainland, and is Xiamen's easternmost district.
Haicang
Haicang is one of the six county-level districts of Xiamen, People's Republic of China, and one of the four located on the mainland proper, as opposed to on Xiamen Island.
Anxi
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Anxi County is a county of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou, in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China with 1,003,599 inhabitants. It lies adjacent to and directly north of Xiamen city.
Jimei
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Jimei is a town in Fujian. It is administratively a part of Xiamen and shares many features of Xiamen, including a common public transportation system.
Liu’ao
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Liu'ao is a peninsula in Zhangpu County of Zhangzhou City, in the southern part of China’s Fujian Province.
Chongwu
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Chongwu Town is a township-level division of Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture-level city, Fujian Province, China. Chongwu Town is in the southeastern part of Hui'an County, on a peninsula jutting into Taiwan Strait.
South Fujian
- Description: coast of Fujian
- Also known as: “Southern Coast”
- Location: Fujian, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
24.9° or 24° 54′ northLongitude of center
118.1° or 118° 6′ eastWikidata ID
Q14234682
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Chinese—“South Fujian” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Паўднёвы бераг”
- Chinese: “闽东南”
- Chinese: “闽南海岸”
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