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<div style="float: right; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 1ex; width: 300px;"> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" width="300px" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray; border-left:3px solid gray; border-top:3px solid gray; border-right:3px solid gray;"> <caption><font size="+1">Lienchiang County <br>連江縣</td></tr> </font></caption> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;">Image:Lienchiang County emblem.png|120px<br><small>Lienchiang County emblem</small> </td> </tr> <tr><td align="center" colspan=2 style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;"><font size="-1"> Abbreviation: Matsu (馬祖) </font></td></tr> <tr><td width=50%>Capital</td><td>Nangan Township</td></tr> <tr><td>Region </td><td>Eastern Fujian</td></tr> <tr><td>County magistrate</td><td>Chen Hsueh-sheng(陳雪生)</td></tr> <tr> <td style="border-top:3px solid gray;"> Area </td> <td style="border-top:3px solid gray;"> List of Taiwanese counties and cities by area|Ranked 25 of 25 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - Total <br> - % water </td> <td> 29.6055 1 E9 m2|km²¹<br> (Percent water goes here)% </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-top:3px solid gray;"> Population </td> <td style="border-top:3px solid gray;"> List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population|Ranked 25 of 25 </td> <tr> <td> - Total<br> (May 2004)<br> - Density </td> <td> 8,912<br> 301/km² </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-top:3px solid gray;">City|Cities:</td> <td style="border-top:3px solid gray;">0</td> </tr> <tr><td>Townships:</td><td>4</td></tr> <tr><td style="border-top:3px solid gray;">County flower:</td><td style="border-top:3px solid gray;">Hairy Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra)</td></tr> <tr><td>County tree:</td><td>(County tree goes here)</td></tr> <tr><td>County bird:</td><td>Chinese Crested Tern<br>(Sterna bernsteini)</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><font size="2">(1) old measures: 28.81 E9 m2|km²</font> </td></tr> <tr><td align="center" colspan=2 style="border-top:3px solid gray;">Image:Matsu_location.jpg </table> </div> They are named after the goddess Matsu (goddess)|Matsu. Quemoy is the other island on the Fujian coast controlled by the ROC. Fujianese Mainlanders started migrating to the islands in the Yuan Dynasty. Most people on Matsu came from Houguan (侯官) (today Changle County (長樂縣), Fujian). Some crewmen of Zheng He temporarily stayed on the islands. In early Qing Dynasty, pirates gathered here and residents temporarily left. After the Kuomintang|Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in 1949, the ROC retained the part of Lienchiang County offshore (and the entire Quemoy|Kinmen County as well). The common Romanization used in the ROC is Wade-Giles (Lienchiang) while the PRC uses pinyin (Lianjiang). However, the name is the same in Chinese. The phrase "Quemoy and Matsu" became part of U.S. politics in the 1960 Presidential election. During the debates, both candidates, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy pledged to use U.S. force if necessary to protect the Republic of China from invasion from the mainland, the People's Republic of China, which the U.S. did not at that time recognize as a legitimate government. Vice-President Nixon charged that Senator Kennedy would not use U.S. force to protect Taiwan's forward positions, Quemoy and Matsu. In April 2003, the county government started considering changing the name to Matsu County to avoid confusion with the county of the same name on the mainland. This is the first example of a local government officially wishing to change its name. Lienchiang County (of the ROC) is currently divided into four townships:
Altogether, there are 22 Lienchiang villages, which are further divided into 137 neighborhoods (鄰 l?n). All townships, except Jyuguang, are named after the largest island in its jurisdictional area, but most townships also include other islets. The Matsu Islands include five major islands: Nangan, Dongjyu and Sijyu (both in Jyuguang Township), Beigan, and Dongyin. Minor islands include Liang (亮島), Gaodeng (高登), Daciou (大坵), and Siaociou (小坵) -- all belong to the Peikan Township.
Another set of coordinates: 119?51'-120?31' E, 25?55'-26?44' N Dongyin is the northernmost and Dongjyu is the southernmost.
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Average annual temperature is 8.9?, with the lowest point being 1.3?. The language spoken by Matsu residents is the Ping language (平話), a dialect of Min dialect|Northern Fujianese. Chen (陳) is the most common Chinese surname|surname, then Lin (林), Wang (王), Cao (曹), and Liu (劉). Several islands are not inhabited permanently, some of which are stationed by ROC soldiers. Farm products include rice, sugar cane, tea plant, Orange (fruit)|orange. Sea animals, such as fish, clams, and jellyfish, are also popular exports. Since 1990, the county controls the Matsu Islands Bird Sanctuary (馬祖列島燕鷗保護區), which spreads across eight islands and islets in Nangan, Beigan and Tongyin Townships. It contains 30 species (biology)|species in 15 order (biology)|orders, mostly gulls and terns. In 2000, four pairs of the endangered species|critically endangered Chinese Crested Tern, previously thought to be extinct species|extinct, were discovered nesting on the Matsu Islands, giving them global conservation importance. There are also mosses and ferns rare or absent on Mainland China and Taiwan Matsu, though named after the goddess Matsu (goddess)|Matsu, is written with a different character that has a different tone. But the Matsu Islands are not the birthplace of the goddess as the human Lin Muoniang -- Meizhou Island is -- but her death place (on a seaport named after her on Nangan Island). The Matsu Nangan Heavenly Empress Palace (馬祖南竿天后宮), a temple dedicated to the goddess, contains the sarcophagus of Lin Muoniang. It is, however, not as popular as the Meizhou temple. Most Taiwanese pilgrims to Meizhou start off their journey in Matsu Islands because they are the closest ROC-controlled base to Meizhou, which is controlled by the PRC See also: Political divisions of the Republic of China
ROC divisions pl:Matsu zh:馬祖 de:Matsu-Inseln category:Republic of China This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Matsu Islands".
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