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(Redirected from Chuandao) Group of islands in the South China Sea, off the coast of Guangdong Province, China Town in Guangdong, China
Chuandao 川岛镇
Town
Coordinates: 21°40′N 112°42′E / 21.667°N 112.700°E / 21.667; 112.700
CountryChina
ProvinceGuangdong
CityJiangmen
DistrictTaishan City
Town seatDaguanghai Bay Economic Zone (大廣海灣經濟區)
on the mainland
Area
 • Total254.3 km (98.2 sq mi)
Population
 • Total28,272
 • Density110/km (290/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Chuanshan Archipelago
Simplified Chinese川山群岛
Traditional Chinese川山羣島 or 川山群島
Literal meaningFlow Islands Archipelago
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChuānshān Qúndǎo
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationchyūn sāan kwàhn dóu
Jyutpingcyun1 saan1 kwan4 dou2

The Chuanshan Archipelago (川山群岛) is a group of islands in the South China Sea, just off the coast of Guangdong Province of southern China, rather nearer to the Pearl River Delta than to the Leizhou Peninsula.

Administration

Administratively the group falls wholly within the County-level city of Taishan (台山), in the municipal region of Jiangmen, Guangdong. The two large islands, Shangchuan (上川) and Xiachuan (下川), and all the other islands, islets, outcroppings and reefs in the archipelago lie within the jurisdiction of Chuandao, one of Taishan's sixteen "towns" (镇, zhen). Chuandao's town seat, however, is located on the mainland in Shanjudahaicun.

Notes

  1. 山 (Shan) literally means hills and mountains. Before the emerging of Modern China, 山 also refers to islands.

References

Islands of Guangdong
Subdistricts & Towns in Jiangmen
Jianghai
Pengjiang
Xinhui
Taishan
Kaiping
Heshan
Enping
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