Is Hainan Province Sanya or Haikou?

The capital of Hainan Province is Haikou.

Haikou, also known as Coconut City, is a prefecture-level city and provincial capital of Hainan Province. It is a strategic fulcrum city of the national “Belt and Road Initiative”, a core city of Hainan Free Trade Port, and an important node city of the Beibu Gulf City Group. It is located between 19°31′～20°04′ north latitude and 110°07′～110°42′ east longitude, in the northern part of Hainan Island. Bordering Wenchang to the east, Chengmai to the west, Ding'an to the south and Qiongzhou Strait to the north, it is the economic, technological and cultural center of Hainan Province. As of 2020, the city has 4 districts under its jurisdiction. At the end of 2021, Haikou City has a permanent population of 2.908 million.

Haikou is located in the tropics and is a southern coastal city rich in natural and charming seaside scenery. It is located at the northern edge of the low-latitude tropics and has a tropical monsoon climate. Since the opening of the port in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has a history of thousands of years. Haikou consists of the main island of Hainan Island, the outlying islands of Haidian Island and Xinbu Island, with a total area of ??3126.83 square kilometers, of which the land area is 2296.82 square kilometers and the sea area is 830 square kilometers.

Sanya City Introduction

Sanya City, a prefecture-level city in Hainan Province, also known as Lucheng, is located at the southernmost tip of Hainan Island, between 18°09′34″-18° north latitude 37′27″, between 108°56′30″ and 109°48′28″ east longitude. It borders Lingshui Li Autonomous County to the east, Ledong Li Autonomous County to the west, Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County to the north, and the South China Sea to the south. Sanya has a total land area of ??1,921 square kilometers, a total sea area of ??3,226 square kilometers, a length of 91.6 kilometers from east to west, and a width of 51 kilometers from north to south. It has four districts.

According to the seventh census data, as of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Sanya City was 1,031,396 people. Sanya is an international tourist city with tropical seaside scenery and is also known as "Oriental Hawaii". In June 2016, the Chinese Academy of Sciences released the "Research Report on China's Livable Cities", in which Sanya's livability index ranked third among 40 cities in the country.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Haikou City