What are the three largest islands in China?
Taiwan Island, Hainan Island, Chongming Island.
1. Taiwan Island—China’s largest island and a strategic location. Located in the southern part of the East China Sea, it borders the Taiwan Strait (belonging to the East China Sea) to the west, 75 to 220 nautical miles from the coast of Fujian Province; it borders the Pacific Ocean to the east; it borders the Ryukyu Islands to the northeast, about 335 nautical miles from Okinawa; it faces the Philippines across the Bashi Strait to the south. Luzon is about 195 nautical miles.
The island is long and narrow, about 394 kilometers long from the northernmost tip of Fuguijiao to the southernmost tip of Eluanbi; its widest point is near the Tropic of Cancer, about 144 kilometers. Covering an area of 35,800 square kilometers, accounting for more than 99% of the province's area, it is the main island of Taiwan Province and ranks 38th among the world's largest islands. The population is approximately 23 million (2006). Among them, Han people account for about 98%, and Gaoshan people account for about 2%.
2. Hainan Island is a tropical island in southern China, with an area of about 34,000 square kilometers and a population of 9.25 million. The island has dense tropical rainforest and clear blue water. It has two seasons in a year: dry season and rainy season. .
The main body of Hainan Province’s landmass is a pear-shaped oval in plane, with its long axis running from northeast to southwest. It is 240 kilometers long, 210 kilometers wide, and covers an area of about 34,000 square kilometers. It is the second largest province in China. The second largest island in Taiwan.
Hainan Island is low-lying on all sides and high in the middle, with a dome-shaped mountain topography, with Wuzhishan and Yinggeling as the core of the uplift, and gradually descends toward the periphery, forming an annular layered landform of mountains, hills, terraces, and plains. , the ladder structure is obvious.
3. Chongming Island is an alluvial island in the Yangtze River Delta. It is the third largest island in China, with an area of 1,200.68 square kilometers and a population of about 821,500. The island has flat terrain, fertile land, and beautiful natural environment, which is suitable for self-cultivation. Chongming The island continues to be affected by the accumulation of sediment from the Yangtze River, adding 5 square kilometers of land every year. It is expected that it will border the northern land in 50 years.
Most of Chongming Island belongs to Shanghai City. Most of the administrative districts on the island are Chongming District, and a small part is Qilong Town and Haiyong Town in Jiangsu Province.
Extended information
Taiwan’s history can be traced back to at least 7,000 years ago. From 7,000 years ago to about 400 years ago, the ancestors of the Austronesian aborigines drifted to Taiwan one after another and became the earliest residents of Taiwan known to date.
Taiwan’s recorded history can be traced back to 230 AD. At that time, Sun Quan, King of Wu of the Three Kingdoms, sent 10,000 officers and soldiers to "Yizhou" (Taiwan). Wu Shen Ying's "Linhai Land Chronicles" left the earliest record of Taiwan in the world. In the middle of the 12th century AD, the Song Dynasty placed Penghu under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou, Fujian, and sent troops to guard it. The governments of the Yuan and Ming dynasties set up inspection departments in Penghu. In the late Ming Dynasty, the scale of development became larger and larger.
In the 16th century, Western colonial powers such as Spain and the Netherlands developed rapidly and began to extend their tentacles to the East. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Dutch colonists took advantage of the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty and the growing power of the Manchus in the Northeast, and when the Ming government was in dire straits, they invaded Taiwan. Soon, the Spanish invaded some areas in the north and east of Taiwan. They were driven out by the Dutch in 1642, and Taiwan became a Dutch colony.
In 1644, the Qing army entered the Pass and established the Qing Dynasty regime in Beijing. In April 1661, Zheng Chenggong led 25,000 soldiers and hundreds of warships to march from Kinmen to Taiwan in the name of recruiting generals from the Southern Ming Dynasty. After fierce fighting and siege, in February 1662, Zheng Chenggong forced the Dutch Governor Kuyi to sign a surrender. Zheng Chenggong regained the Chinese territory of Taiwan from the Dutch colonists and became a great national hero, respected by the majority of the people.
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