Xiaoguwei

Xiaoguwei
"Part of the Canton River" in 1841, a map showing Guangzhou and its surrounding islands during the First Opium War. Xiaoguwei ("French Is.") lies in the southeast, Changzhou ("Dane Is.") to its north, Henan ("Honam Is.") to its west, and Pazhou ("Whampoa Is.") to its northwest.
Simplified Chinese
Postal	French Island
Transcriptions

Xiaoguwei, formerly known in English as French Island, is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Xinzao (), a town in Guangzhou's Panyu District. The Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center now occupies the entire island.

Xiaoguwei is about 17.9 km² (6.9 sq mi).

During the Canton trade, Xiaoguwei was used by French crews for repairs and burials. It lay on the southeastern side of the Huangpu or "Whampoa" anchorage. French access to Guangzhou was, however, frequently blocked by the British Navy amid its colonial, revolutionary, and Napoleonic Wars.

Xiaoguwei is connected with Luntou () in Haizhu District by tunnel. Bridges on the Nansha Port Expressway, a toll road, links it to Henan Island (Haizhu District) in the west and the rest of Panyu District to the south. A third bridge connects it to Haizhu's Yingzhou Ecological Park and a fourth to Huangpu District's Changzhou Island in the northeast.