Hainan (Chinese Chinese or the Sinitic language (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; simplified Chinese: 华语; traditional Chinese: 華語; pinyin: Huáyǔ; simplified Chinese: 中国话; traditional Chinese: 中國話; pinyin: Zhōngguóhuà; or Chinese: 中文; pinyin: Zhōngwén) is a language family consisting of: 海南; Pe̍h-ōe-jī Pe̍h-ōe-jī (traditional Chinese: 白話字; pinyin: báihuà zì) is an orthography in the Latin alphabet created and introduced to Fujian and Taiwan by Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th century. POJ is a popular orthography for the Taiwanese language or Hokkien in general. A version called Pha̍k-fa-sṳ exists for Hakka and is: Hái-lâm, pinyin Pinyin , or more formally Hanyu pinyin (汉语拼音 / 漢語拼音), is currently the most commonly used romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu (汉语 / 漢語) means the Chinese language, and pinyin (拼音) means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound". The system is now used: Hǎinán (help·info), jyutping Jyutping is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK promotes the use of this romanization system: literal meaning: "South of the Sea") is the smallest province A province, in the context of Chinese government, is a translation of sheng , which is an administrative division. Together with municipalities, autonomous regions, and the special administrative regions, provinces make up the first level (known as the province level) of administrative division in China. Provinces are also the first level division of the People's Republic of China (PRC) b. ^ Information for mainland China only. Hong Kong and Macau are excluded. In addition, the territories under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, are also excluded. Although the province comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, all but three percent of its land mass is on Hainan Island (Hainan Dao), from which the province takes its name. To say "Hainan" in China usually refers to Hainan Island itself. The PRC government claims Hainan's territories to extend to the southern Spratly Islands The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 650 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the South China Sea between the Philippines, China, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam. They comprise less than five square kilometers of land area, spread over more than 400,000 square kilometers of sea. The Spratlys, as they are called, are part of the three, Paracel Islands The Paracel Islands consist of over 30 islets, sandbanks or reefs, occupy about 15,000 km2 of the ocean surface, and located in the South China Sea, also known as East Vietnam Sea or East Sea. Turtles live on the islands, and seabirds have left nests and guano deposits, but there are no permanent human residents except for a small number of troops and other disputed marine territory. Hainan is also the largest Special Economic Zone Special Economic Zones of the People's Republic of China are Special Economic Zones located in mainland China. The government of the People's Republic of China gives SEZs special economic policies and flexible governmental measures. This allows SEZs to utilize an economic management system that is especially conducive to doing business that does laid out by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping listen (simplified Chinese: 邓小平; traditional Chinese: 鄧小平; pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-p'ing; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng became a reformer who led China towards a market in the late 1980s.

Hainan Island is located in the South China Sea It is a part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is one of the largest sea bodies after the five oceans. The minute South China Sea Islands, collectively an archipelago, number in the hundreds. The sea and its mostly uninhabited islands are subject to competing claims of, separated from Guangdong's Leizhou Peninsula The Leizhou Peninsula is a peninsula in the southernmost part of Guangdong province in southern China to the north by a shallow and narrow strait. It has an area of 33,920 square kilometers and is China's southernmost province. For centuries Hainan was part of Guangdong Guangdong is a province on the southern coast of People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province. It surpassed Henan and Sichuan to become the most populous province in China in January 2005, registering 79 million permanent residents and 31 million migrants who lived in province, but in 1988 this resource-rich tropical island became a separate province. The capital is Haikou Haikou originally served as the port for Qiongshan, the ancient administrative capital of Hainan island, located 5 km inland.haikou was a part of Guangdong province. In the 13th century it was fortified and became a military post under the Ming dynasty . The port is located west of the mouth of the Nandu, Hainan's principal river. When Qiongshan.

There are 8 major cities and 10 counties A county is a land area of local government within a country. A county may have cities and towns within its area. Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (comte, conde, Graf) on Hainan and the Xisha Islands in the south of Sanya City.[1]

The major cities of Hainan Island are (going clockwise A clockwise motion is one that proceeds 'like the clock's hands': from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back to the top. In a mathematical sense, a circle defined parametrically in a positive Cartesian plane by the equations x = sin t and y = cos t is traced clockwise as t increases in value. Described another way,): Haikou Haikou originally served as the port for Qiongshan, the ancient administrative capital of Hainan island, located 5 km inland.haikou was a part of Guangdong province. In the 13th century it was fortified and became a military post under the Ming dynasty . The port is located west of the mouth of the Nandu, Hainan's principal river. When Qiongshan, Wenchang Wenchang is a county-level city in NE Hainan province, China. It was promoted from a county to a city on November 7, 1995 and has a population of 86,551 in 1999 (estimated 2006: 115,000). Wenchang is the source from where most overseas Hainanese migrated. Majority of Singapore's Hainanese population has ancestral roots in Wenchang. Wenchang, Qionghai Qionghai is a county-level city in Hainan, the People's Republic of China. It is one of 6 county-level cities in Hainan. Its postal code is 571400, and in 1999 its population was 442,780 people, Wanning, Wuzhishan (or five finger Mountain), Sanya Sanya is a city in southern Hainan province of China. It has a population of 536,000 as of 2006. After Haikou, the capital, it is the second most populous city of the island. Sanya is renowned for its tropical climate and has emerged as a popular tourist destination. It is also the focus city for China's Utsul Muslims. It is the site for training, Dongfang, Danzhou Danzhou is a city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. It is a County-level city administered directly by the province.

And its counties are (going in the clock circle way): Ding’An, Tunchang, Qiongzhong, Lingshui, Baoting, Ledong, Baisha, Changjiang, Lin’Gao and Chengmai.

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