Haikou is China's youngest provincial capital, set at a river mouth about 460 kilometres across the Gulf of Tonkin from Hanoi, on an island the Han once governed in the same province as Vietnam's Red River delta.
海口是中国最年轻的省会,坐落在一处河口,隔北部湾与河内相距约四百六十公里,而它所在的这座岛,汉朝曾把它与越南红河三角洲划在同一个州里。
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Sanya's beaches host the Chinese national beach volleyball team in winter, a community of about 10,000 Muslims who speak a language related to Cham, a nuclear submarine base beside the resort bays, and bus announcements in Mandarin, English and...
Sansha is China's largest city by claimed administrative area and its smallest by land and population, a prefecture-level city of about 2,300 residents spread over some 280 reefs, sandbars and islets; its sovereignty is claimed in whole or in...
The city of Danzhou governs no districts at all, only towns, farms and a free-trade zone, yet it is Hainan's largest city by land and its second economy, the place where the exiled poet Su Dongpo taught, and the...
Until 2001 this city was called Tongshi, whose second character had a local pronunciation the dictionary did not recognise, which troubled its post, so it took the name of the mountain beside it, the highest on Hainan at 1,867...
Every spring a village at the mouth of the Wanquan River hosts statesmen and executives from across Asia, in a county that also raised the women's company behind the Red Detachment of Women and gave Hong Kong a paper...
Wenchang is where Super Typhoon Yagi came ashore in September 2024 and where China launches its space-station modules, where the Soong sisters' father was born in a village house and where a dialect with eight tones became the voice...
Wanning's name means "ten thousand peaces", and its winters are anything but, because from October to April the north-east monsoon throws swells at Riyue Bay, which is why surfers call this stretch of coast the capital of Chinese surfing.
万宁的名字意为"万事安宁",它的冬天却一点也不安宁,因为从十月到次年四月,东北季风把涌浪推向日月湾,冲浪者因此称这段海岸为中国的冲浪之都。
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