Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River,beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian,People's Republic of China. It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region,with an area of 11,245 square kilometers (4,342 sq mi) and a population of 8,782,285 as of the 2020 census. Its built-up area is home to 6,669,711 inhabitants,encompassing the Licheng,Fengze,and Luojiang urban districts;Jinjiang,Nan'an,and Shishi cities;Hui'an County;and the Quanzhou District for Taiwanese Investment. Quanzhou was China's 12th-largest extended metropolitan area in 2010.
Quanzhou Normal University is a public university located in Quanzhou,Fujian province,People's Republic of China.
The Port River is part of a tidal estuary located north of the Adelaide city centre in the Australian state of South Australia. It has been used as a shipping channel since the beginning of European settlement of South Australia in 1836,when Colonel Light selected the site to use as a port. Before colonisation,the Port River region and the estuary area were known as Yerta Bulti by the Kaurna people,and used extensively as a source of food and plant materials to fashion artefacts used in daily life.
The Wanquan River is the third longest river in Hainan Province,China,and is 162 km long. It rises in the Wuzhi Mountain,and flows generally northeast turbulently in a narrow route through mountainous regions. About halfway downstream,it enters Qionghai. Here the river bed widens and the water flows gently,and on the banks are mostly coconut trees and banana plantations. For its last 30 km,the river makes a southeast turn,and before it empties into the South China Sea at Bo'ao,where it joins the Longgun River and Jiuqu River in a common estuary.
Oyster Pond River,also called Oyster Creek,is a 1.7-mile-long (2.7 km) river in Chatham,Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
The Luo River is a tributary of the Yellow River in China. It rises in the southeast flank of Mount Hua in Shaanxi province and flows east into Henan province,where it eventually joins the Yellow River at the city of Gongyi. The river's total length is 420 kilometres (260 mi).
Nan'an is a county-level city of southern Fujian Province,People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Quanzhou City and as of 2023,had a total population of 1,663,542. More than 4,000,000 overseas Chinese trace their ancestry to Nan'an.
Taixi Township,is a rural township in Yunlin County,Taiwan,lying to the west of Dongshi,south of Mailiao and north of Sihu,and including a section of coastline on the Taiwan Strait.
Luojiang District is a district of Quanzhou,Fujian province,People's Republic of China.
Anping Bridge is a Song dynasty stone beam bridge in Fujian province. It is 2,070 metres (1.29 mi) long. The bridge is also known as the Wuli Bridge because its length is about 5 li,where a li is about 500 meters or 0.3 miles. It is a nationally protected historic site registered with the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
The Jin River,also known in Hokkien Chinese:晉江;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Chìn-kang;Mandarin Chinese:晉江;pinyin:Jìnjiāng,is located in southern Fujian. Its basin includes most of Quanzhou prefecture-level city,whose Jinjiang County-level City is named after it.
The Port of Meizhou Baywas created in 2012 by merging the ports of Quanzhou,Meizhou Island and Putian,as part of Fujian Province's rationalization of ports,which cutting down the number of ports in the province into three large consolidated ports. In 2012,Meizhou Bay port had 147 berths,24 with 10,000DWT capacity,and had a total cargo throughput of 114 million tonnes.
Anhai is a town in southern Fujian province or Minnan,People's Republic of China. It is located in the far southern suburbs of the Quanzhou metropolitan area and is separated by Weitou Bay from Kinmen,which is controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan. Administratively,Anhai is part of Jinjiang County-level City,which in its turn is subordinated to Quanzhou.
Heshi is a town of Luojiang District,Quanzhou,Fujian province,China. As of 2011,it has 21 villages under its administration.
Shuitou is a town of Nan'an City,in southern Fujian province,China.
Xunpu is an oyster fishing village in Quanzhou,southern Fujian,China. It is located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southeast of downtown Quanzhou.
The Shijing River is a small river in the Fujian Province of China. The tidal estuary it forms when entering the Weitou Bay of the Taiwan Strait is known as the Anhai Bay. Most of the Shijing River's basin is within the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou.
Luoyang or Loyang is a prefecture-level city in Henan Province,China.
The Luoyang Bridge,also known as Wan'an Bridge,is located in Quanzhou,Fujian province,China. The stone bay bridge is situated at the mouth of Luoyang River. Being the first stone bay bridge in China,it enjoys the reputation of "one of the four ancient bridges of China".
