Kinmen County
Sign in to saveKinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands and a county of Taiwan, only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay. Kinmen is also west from the closest shoreline of the island of Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait.
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Kinmen is a county made up of islands belonging to Taiwan, located in a strategically important position between mainland China and Taiwan—just east of the Chinese city of Xiamen and west of Taiwan's main island across the Taiwan Strait. Its unique geography in the waters separating China and Taiwan has made it historically and politically significant.
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- 金門縣
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- Quemoy
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- Cross-Strait relations
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- Submarine telecommunication cable
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Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands and a county of Taiwan, only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay. Kinmen is also west from the closest shoreline of the island of Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait.
The county consists of the major island of Kinmen along with several surrounding islets, as well as Wuqiu Township remotely located northeast from the rest of the county. Kinmen is one of two counties that constitute Fuchien Province; the other is Lienchiang County (Matsu).