Chuanshan Archipelago

Chuandao 川岛镇
Town
Coordinates: 21°40′N 112°42′E
Country	China
Province	Guangdong
City	Jiangmen
District	Taishan City
Town seat	Daguanghai Bay Economic Zone (大廣海灣經濟區) on the mainland
Area
• Total	254.3 km^2 (98.2 sq mi)
Population
• Total	28,272
• Density	110/km^2 (290/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Chuanshan Archipelago
Simplified Chinese	川山群岛
Traditional Chinese	川山羣島 or 川山群島
Literal meaning	Flow Islands Archipelago[Notes 1]
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chuānshān Qúndǎo Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization chyūn sāan kwàhn dóu Jyutping cyun1 saan1 kwan4 dou2

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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