Zhoushan Island is the principal island of the namesake archipelago governed by Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China. Its name means "Mountain of Boat", because its shape. It is the province's largest island, and China's fourth largest one (after Taiwan, Hainan, and Chongming Islands). The island is the district seats of both Dinghai and Putuo. Zhoushan (舟山; formerly transliterated as Chusan) is the only prefecture-level city consisted solely of islands in the Peoples Republic of China. ... Zhejiang (Chinese: 浙江; pinyin: Zhèjiāng; Wade-Giles: Che-chiang; Postal System Pinyin: Chehkiang or Chekiang) is a eastern coastal province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Hainan (Chinese: 海南; pinyin: ) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located at the southern end of the country. ... Chongming County (崇明县, pinyin: Chóngmíng Xiàn) is the only county under the jurisdication of Shanghai, China. ... Dinghai (定海区) is a Chinese district of Zhoushan City made of 128 islands. ...

Geography

In 30° N. 122° E., it lies northwest and southeast, and has a circumference of 170.16 km (51 miles), the extreme length being 44 km (20 mi), the extreme breadth 18 km (10 mi), and the minimum breadth 6 mi. Its area is 502.65 km² (including tidal zone) with a coastline. It is 44 km east-east and 18 km north-south. Its closest point to Mainland is 9.1 kilometres. The tallest point is 503.6 metres. This article is about the geomorphological/geopolitical term; Mainland is also a brand from Fonterra. ...

The island is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, and well watered with numerous small streams, of which the most considerable is the Tungkiang, faffing into the harbour of Dinghai. There are several hundreds of ports around the islands, separated into three areas: Dinghai Port Zone, Shengjiamen Port Zone (沈家门港区), and Laotangshan Port Zone (老塘山港区). The tourism regions include the regions of Chengjiamen and Dinghai.

Subdivisions

440000 people, mostly Han, in 150000 households live in the following 17 subdivisions of Dinghai and Putuo Districts are on Zhoushan Island: Han Chinese (Simplified Chinese: 汉族; Traditional Chinese: 漢族; pinyin: ) is a term which refers to the majority ethnic group within China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. ...

Tourism

The peak of Qinglong Mountain has a memorial tablet dedicated to revolutionary matyrs. Dinghai has a number of sites related to the Opium War: There were two Opium Wars between Britain and China. ...

• Opium War Memorial Park (鸦片战争纪念公园)
• Temples of the Three Loyalists (三忠祠)
• The Tablet of the Martyring Site of Lord Yao (姚公殉难处碑)
• The Tablet of the Martyring Site of Mr. Li (义士李先生殉难处碑)
• Zhengyuan Cannon Platform (震远城炮台)
• Daotou City (道头土城)

There also those about the Ming-Qing contention: This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: qīng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of Inner Asia, establishing...

• Tonggui City (同归域)
• The Well of Imperial Consort Yuan of King Lu (鲁王元妃宫井)

Other sites include:

• Zuyin Temple (祖印寺), from 940年
• San Mao Memorial Museum (三毛祖居纪念馆)