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Zhoushan Island

Zhoushan Island is the principal island of the namesake archipelago governed by Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, the People's Republic of China. Its name means "Mountain of Boat", because its shape. It is the province's largest island, and China's fourth largest one (after Taiwan, Hainan, and Chongming Islands). The island is the district seats of both Dinghai and Putuo.

Table of contents
1 Geography
2 Subdivisions
3 Tourism

Geography

In 30° N. 122° E., it lies northwest and southeast, and has a circumference of 170.16 km (51 miles), the extreme length being 44 km (20 mi), the extreme breadth 18 km (10 mi), and the minimum breadth 6 mi. Its area is 502.65 kmē (including tidal zone) with a coastline. It is 44 km east-east and 18 km north-south. Its closest point to Mainland is 9.1 kilometres. The tallest point is 503.6 metres.

The island is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, and well watered with numerous small streams, of which the most considerable is the Tungkiang, faffing into the harbour of Dinghai. There are several hundreds of ports around the islands, separated into three areas: Dinghai Port Zone, Chengjiamen Port Zone (沉家门港区), and Laotangshan Port Zone (老塘山港区). The tourism regions include the regions of Chengjiamen and Dinghai.

Subdivisions

440000 people, mostly Han, in 150000 households live in the following 17 subdivisions of Dinghai and Putuo Districts are on Zhoushan Island:

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9 sub-districts:

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7 towns:

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Tourism

The peak of Qinglong Mountain has a memorial tablet dedicated to revolutionary matyrs. Dinghai has a number of sites related to the Opium War: There also those about the Ming-Qing contention: Other sites include: