Xiamen Island
Xiamen Island, alternately known as Amoy Island from its Hokkien pronunciation, is an island in southeastern Fujian, China, on the Taiwan Strait. It is administered by the People's Republic of China as the Huli and Siming urban districts of the sub-provincial city of Xiamen.Photo: BreakdownDiode, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: island with 1,050,000 residents
- Description: island in southeastern Fujian, China
- Also known as: “Amoy Island”, “Hia-Men-Sou”, “Island Aimoey”, and “Xiamen Dao”
Xiamen Island
- Location: Xiamen, South Fujian, Fujian, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
Population
1,050,000Wikidata ID
Q15928468
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Xiamen Island” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Ē-mn̂g-tó”
- Chinese: “厦门岛”
- Chinese: “廈門島”
- Czech: “Sia-men”
- French: “île de Xiamen”
- French: “Île de Xiamen”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Xiamen”
- Korean: “샤먼섬”
- Literary Chinese: “廈門島”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ē-mn̂g-tó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ē-mûiⁿ-tó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “厦门岛”
- Min Nan Chinese: “廈門島”
- Polish: “Xiamen Dao”
- Yue Chinese: “廈門島”
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