What are the three major islands in China?

Taiwan Province Island, Hainan Island and Chongming Island.

1, Taiwan Province Island, the largest island in China, is strategically important. Located in the south of the East China Sea, west of the Taiwan Province Strait (belonging to the East China Sea), 75 ~ 220 nautical miles away from the coast of Fujian Province; East of the Pacific Ocean; Northeast China is adjacent to the Ryukyu Islands, about 335 nautical miles from Okinawa Island; Bashi channel faces the Philippines across the sea to the south, about 195 nautical miles from Luzon Island.

The island is long and narrow, about 394 kilometers long, from Fuguijiao in the northernmost part to Luanbi in the southernmost part. The widest place is near the Tropic of Cancer, about 144 km. With an area of 35,800 square kilometers, accounting for more than 99% of the province's area, it is the main island of Taiwan Province Province and ranks 38th among the largest islands in the world. The population is about 23 million (2006). Among them, the Han nationality accounts for about 98% and the Gaoshan nationality accounts for about 2%.

Hainan Island is a tropical island in the south of China, with an area of about 34,000 square kilometers and a population of 9.25 million. The tropical rain forest on the island is dense and the sea water is clear and blue. There are two seasons in a year: dry season and rainy season.

Hainan Province is the main land of Sydney-style ellipse, with its long axis running northeast-southwest, 240 kilometers long, 265,438+00 kilometers wide and an area of about 34,000 square kilometers, making it the second largest island in China after Taiwan Province Island.

Hainan Island is low and flat around, high in the middle, with dome-shaped mountainous terrain, with Wuzhishan and Ying Ge Ridge as the core of uplift and gradually descending around. The annular layered landform is composed of mountains, hills, platforms and plains, and has obvious cascade structure.

Chongming Island is an alluvial island in the Yangtze River Delta and the third largest island in China, with an area of 1 200.68 square kilometers and a population of about 8210.5 million. The island has flat terrain, fertile land and beautiful natural environment, which is suitable for self-cultivation. Chongming Island is continuously piled up by the Yangtze River, increasing 5 square kilometers of land every year. It is expected to border the northern land in 50 years.

Most of Chongming Island belongs to Shanghai. Most of the administrative districts on the island are Chongming District, and a few are Qilong Town and Haiyong Town in Jiangsu Province.

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The history of Taiwan Province Province can be traced back to at least 7000 years ago. From 7,000 years ago to about 400 years ago, the ancestors of Austronesian aborigines drifted to Taiwan Province Province, becoming the earliest known residents in Taiwan Province Province.

The recorded history of Taiwan Province Province can be traced back to 230 AD. At that time, Sun Quan, King of Wu of the Three Kingdoms, sent 65,438+00000 officers and men to Yizhou (Taiwan Province Province), and the coastal soil and water records of Shen Ying left the earliest account of Taiwan Province Province in the world. /kloc-In the middle of the 0/2nd century, the Song Dynasty placed Penghu under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and sent troops to guard it. Yuan and Ming governments set up inspection department in Penghu. In the late Ming Dynasty, the scale of development became larger and larger.

/kloc-in the 6th century, the western colonial forces such as Spain and the Netherlands developed rapidly and began to extend their tentacles to the east. /kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the Dutch colonialists took advantage of the difficulties of the Ming government, the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the growing power of Manchu in Northeast China to invade Taiwan Province Province. Soon, the Spanish occupied parts of northern and eastern Taiwan Province Province, and were driven away by the Dutch in 1642, and Taiwan Province Province became a Dutch colony.

1644, the Qing army entered the customs and established the Qing regime in Beijing. 166 1 In April, Zheng Chenggong led 25,000 soldiers and hundreds of warships from Kinmen into Taiwan Province Province in the name of General Nan Mingyi. After fierce fighting and siege,1February 662, Zheng Chenggong forced Dutch Governor Bayi to sign and surrender. Zheng Chenggong regained China's territory of Taiwan Province Province from Dutch colonists, and became a great national hero, admired by the broad masses of people.

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