Wanshan Archipelago
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Wanshan / Guishan / Dan'gan 万山镇 / 桂山镇 / 担杆镇 |
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| Town(s) | |
| 万山海洋开发试验区 | |
 Ladrones Islands and Lema Islands (bottom part of the map) on an 1878 German map |
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| Country | China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| City | Zhuhai |
| District | Xiangzhou |
| Area | |
| • Total | 86 km2 (33 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 4,813 |
| • Density | 56/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Website | http://www.wanshan.gov.cn/ |
| Wanshan Archipelago | |||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 万山群岛 | ||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 萬山羣島 or 萬山群島 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Ten Thousand Islands Archipelago | ||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wànshān Qúndǎo |
| Wade–Giles | Wan4 shan1 Ch'ün2 tao3 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Maan6 saan1 Kwan4 dou2 |
The Wanshan Archipelago (lit. Myriad Islands Archipelago), sometimes referred to as the Ladrones Islands (Thieves Islands), is a 104-island archipelago that is part of the Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai Municipality in Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Most of the islands of the archipelago are in the Wanshan Marine Development Experimental Zone (万山海洋开发试验区) which consist of three towns: Guishan Town (桂山镇), Dan'gan Town (担杆镇) and Wanshan Town (万山镇).
The islands are situated in the South China Sea, to the south of the opening of the Pearl River estuary and Hong Kong.
The Wanshan Islands also include some islands in Hong Kong and Macau, such as Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island in Hong Kong, Taipa-Coloane Island in Macau.
The archipelago includes several groups of islands. On the older European maps, the western group, located south of the Pearl River estuary and Hong Kong's island of Lantau, and including the Greater Wanshan Island (Dawanshan Dao), Guishan Dao, Zhizhou Liedao group, Wai Dangling Dao, Sanmen Liedao group, and Aizhou Liedao group, was known as the Ladrones Islands (that is, "Thieves Islands", in Spanish or Portuguese). The eastern chain of islands, located south of Hong Kong, was known in the West as the Lema Islands; today, the western half of this chain is known as Jiapeng Liedao, and the eastern half as Dan'gan Liedao.
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