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Fujian

Fujian

Key facts

population41,540,086
aurie121,400km²
instance oProvinces o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
kintraFowkrepublic o Cheenae
caipitalFuzhou
heid o govrenmentSu Shulin
All data from the card 21
• Cheenese
福建省 (Fújiàn Shěng)
• Abbreviation
simplifeed Cheenese: 闽; traditeeonal Cheenese: 閩 (pinyin: Mǐn, POJ: Bân, BUC: Mìng, MNP: Mǐn, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Mîn)
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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
Named for
福 fú – Fuzhou建 jiàn – Jianzhou (the day's Jian'ou)
Caipital(an lairgest ceety)
Fuzhou
Divisions
9 prefecturs, 85 coonties, 1107 tounships
• Secretar
Sun Chunlan
• Govrenor
Huang Xiaojing
• Total
121400 km2 (46,900 sq mi)
Area rank
23rd
• Total
36,894,216
• Rank
17t
• Density
300/km2 (790/sq mi)
• Density rank
14t
• Ethnic composeetion
Han – 98%She – 1%Hui – 0.3%
• Leids an dialects
Min Cheenese, Hakka Cheenese
ISO 3166 code
CN-35
GDP (2011)
CNY 1.74 trillionUS$ 269.6 billion (12t)
• per capita
CNY 46,802US$ 7,246 (9t)
HDI (2008)
0.807 (high) (12th)
Website
www.fujian.gov.cn(Simplified Chinese)

Fujian  (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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