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Fujian Province

福建省
Name transcription(s)
 • Cheenese福建省 (Fújiàn Shěng)
 • Abbreviationsimplifeed Cheenese: ; traditeeonal Cheenese: (pinyin: Mǐn, POJ: Bân, BUC: Mìng, MNP: Mǐn, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mîn)
 •  Min Nan POJ: Hok-kiàn-séng

Min Dong BUC: Hók-gióng-sēng
Min Bei MNP: Hū-guīng-sǎing

Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Fuk-kien-sén
Map shawin the location o Fujian Province
Map shawin the location o Fujian Province
Named for福 fú – Fuzhou
建 jiàn – Jianzhou (the day's Jian'ou)
Caipital
(an lairgest ceety)
Fuzhou
Divisions9 prefecturs, 85[1] coonties, 1107[1] tounships
Govrenment
 • SecretarSun Chunlan
 • GovrenorHuang Xiaojing
Area
 • Total121400 km2 (46,900 sq mi)
Area rank23rd
Population
 (2010)
 • Total36,894,216
 • Rank17t
 • Density300/km2 (790/sq mi)
 • Density rank14t
Demographics
 • Ethnic composeetionHan – 98%
She – 1%
Hui – 0.3%
 • Leids an dialectsMin Cheenese, Hakka Cheenese
ISO 3166 codeCN-35
GDP (2011)CNY 1.74 trillion
US$ 269.6 billion[2] (12t)
 • per capitaCNY 46,802
US$ 7,246 (9t)
HDI (2008)0.807 (high) (12th)
Websitewww.fujian.gov.cn
(Simplified Chinese)

Aboot this soondFujian  (Cheenese: 福建), umwhile romanisit as Fukien or Foukien, is a province on the sootheast coast o mainland Cheenae. The name Fujian came frae the combination o Fuzhou an Jianzhou (a umwhile name for Jian'ou) twa ceeties in Fujian, durin the Tang Dynasty. Wi a Han majority, it is ane o the maist culturally an linguistically diverse provinces in Cheenae.

Maist o Fujian is admeenistered bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. Housomeivver, the airchipelagos o Kinmen an Matsu are unner the control o the Republic o Cheenae (Taiwan). Sicweys, thare are twa provinces (in the sense o govrenment organisations): the Fujian Province admeenistered bi the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae an the Fujian Province o the Republic o Cheenae.

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  1. a b These are the official PRC numbers from 2009 Fujian Statistic Bureau. Quemoy is includit as a coonty an Matsu as a tounship.
  2. "福建省2011年国民经济和社会发展统计公报". 中国统计信息网. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 13 Julie 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2011
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