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Encyclopedia > Haikou
Haikou

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Location of Haikou Prefecture (yellow) within Hainan
Chinese: 海口
Literal meaning: "Mouth of the Sea"
Haikou (China)
Haikou
Haikou on the map of China

Haikou, situated at the north of Hainan island, is the capital of Hainan Province of the People's Republic of China and has an estimated population of 830,192 (2006), therefore by far the largest city on the island. Standard Mandarin, also known as Standard Chinese, Modern Standard Chinese or Standard spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... This article is about all of the Cantonese (Yue) dialects. ... Jyutping (sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 558 pixelsFull resolution (3109 × 2167 pixel, file size: 103 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of China, originally in the equirectangular projection (equidistant cylindrical projection, or plate carrée), but stretched vetically 1,2 times (for better appearance). ... Image File history File links Red_pog2. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Not to be confused with capitol. ... Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Henan and Hunan Hainan (海南; pinyin: Hǎinán) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located at the southern end of the country. ...

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History

It was made a prefecture-level city as well as the capital of the newly-created Hainan Province in 1988. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: dìjí shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ...


Geography

Location: located between 19.57 - 20.05 north latitude and 110.10 - 110.23 east longitude in the southernmost part of China; in an area that reaches from Zengmu Ansha in the south to the Qiongzhou Strait in the north; bordering the sea areas of the South China Sea and facing Vietnam in the west across Beibu Bay. The Qiongzhou Strait, also called Hainan Strait, is a body of water that separates the Luichow Peninsula in Guangdong, China, to the north from Hainan Island to its south. ... Filipino name Tagalog: Luzon Sea Portuguese name Portuguese: Mar da China Meridional Vietnamese name Vietnamese: The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. ... The Gulf of Tonkin (480 kmx240 km) lies between Vietnam and China. ...


Neighboring areas: Guangdong province Guangdong, often spelt as Kwangtung, is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...


Administrative Districts

Qiongshan (瓊山, also Chiungshan, Kiungshan; formerly Qiongzhou) is one of the four county-level districts which make up the city of Haikou, the capital of Hainan province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Economy

Haikou Century Bridge
Haikou Century Bridge

The GDP per capita was ¥23920 (ca. US$2890) in 2003, ranked no. 43 among 659 Chinese cities. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 1. ...


Sister Cities

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  • Detailed information about Haikou
  • Photos of Haikou and Hainan


Prefecture- and county-level divisions of Hainan
Prefecture-level cities: Haikou | Sanya
Districts of Haikou: Longhua | Meilan | Qiongshan | Xiuying
County-level cities: Danzhou | Dongfang | Qionghai | Wanning | Wenchang | Wuzhishan
Counties: Chengmai | Ding'an | Lingao | Tunchang
Autonomous counties: Baisha | Baoting | Changjiang | Ledong | Lingshui | Qiongzhong
List of Hainan Township-level divisions

Coordinates: 20°02′34″N, 110°20′30″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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