Chuandao
川岛镇
Coordinates: 21°40′N 112°42′E / 21.667°N 112.700°E / 21.667; 112.700
CountryChina
ProvinceGuangdong
CityJiangmen
DistrictTaishan City
Town seatShanjudahaicun (山咀大海村)
on the mainland
Area
  Total254.3 km2 (98.2 sq mi)
Population
  Total28,272
  Density110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Chuanshan Archipelago
Simplified Chinese川山群岛
Traditional Chinese川山羣島 or 川山群島
Literal meaningFlow Islands Archipelago[Notes 1]

The Chuanshan Archipelago (川山群岛) is a group of islands in the South China Sea, just off the coast of Guangdong Province of southern China, rather nearer to the Pearl River Delta than to the Leizhou Peninsula.

Administration

Administratively the group falls wholly within the County-level city of Taishan (台山), in the municipal region of Jiangmen, Guangdong. The two large islands, Shangchuan (上川) and Xiachuan (下川), and all the other islands, islets, outcroppings and reefs in the archipelago lie within the jurisdiction of Chuandao, one of Taishan's sixteen "towns" (镇, zhen). Chuandao's town seat, however, is located on the mainland in Shanjudahaicun.

Notes

  1. 山 (Shan) literally means hills and mountains. Before the emerging of Modern China, 山 also refers to islands.

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