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Gulangyu Island
A UNESCO car-free island off Xiamen with colonial-era architecture, the Piano Museum, and winding alleyways through a garden settlement.
4 km · about 5 min drive
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Xiamen
Fujian, China · Asia
About Xiamen
Xiamen is worth a stop: 30 minutes from Liuwudiancun, 4km from Gulangyu Island.
Xiamen is in Fujian, China, with about 4.6 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Liuwudiancun, about 15 km away.
Xiamen, historically romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, Haicang, and Xiang'an. All together, these cover an area of 1,700.61 square kilometers (656.61 sq mi) with aRead more
population of 5,163,970 as of 2020 and estimated at 5.365 million as of 31 December 2025. The urbanized area of the city has spread from its original island to include most parts of all six of its districts, as well as 4 Zhangzhou districts (Xiangcheng, Longwen, Longhai and Changtai), which form a built-up area of 7,284,148 inhabitants. This area also connects with Quanzhou in the north, making up a metropolis of nearly ten million people. The Kinmen Islands (Quemoy) administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan) lie less than 6 kilometers (4 mi) away separated by Xiamen Bay. As part of the Opening Up Policy under Deng Xiaoping, Xiamen became one of China's original four special economic zones opened to foreign investment and trade in the early 1980s.
Xiamen Island possesses a major international seaport. The Port of Xiamen is a well-developed first-class trunk line port in the Asia-Pacific region. It is ranked the 7th-largest container port in China and ranks 15th in the world. It is the 4th port in China with the capacity to handle 6th-generation large container ships. On 31 August 2010, Xiamen Port incorporated the neighboring port of Zhangzhou to form the largest port of China's Southeast. Ever since the 12th century, Xiamen was also an important origin for many migrants to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The overseas Chinese used to support Xiamen's educational and cultural institutions.
Xiamen is one of the top 40 cities in the world by scientific research as tracked by the Nature Index. The city is home to several major universities, including Xiamen University, one of China's most prestigious universities as a member of the Double First Class Universities, Huaqiao, Jimei, Xiamen University of Technology and Xiamen Medical College.
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Within an hour or so of Xiamen: Gulangyu Island (4 km).
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Xiamen is in Fujian, China, about 15 km from Liuwudiancun.
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- Population
- 4,617,251
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Fujian
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 24.4798, 118.0819
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