Xiamen has a land area of 1699.39 square kilometers and a sea area of more than 390 square kilometers. Xiamen speaks Xiamenese, a Southern Fujian language, and is part of the Southern Fujian region, along with Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.

Xiamen, belonging to Fujian Province, also known as Heron Island, short Xiamen, Heron,? Sub-provincial cities, special economic zones, the southeast coast of the important center of the city. Xiamen is located in the southeastern tip of Fujian Province, east and Kinmen County, south and Longhai City, Zhangzhou Investment Promotion Bureau Economic and Technological Development Zone across the sea, land and Nan'an City, Anxi County, Changtai County, Zhangzhou Taiwan Investment Zone border.

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Local use of Xiamen dialect of Southern Fujian, which is one of the eight major dialects of the country. The Minnan dialect is one of the eight major dialects in the country, and is a super-regional and super-provincial Chinese dialect.

Mainly in southern Fujian, Chaoshan in eastern Guangdong and some parts of Taiwan, Hainan Province and some parts of Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, as well as Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Jiangsu and Fujian in the central and northeastern areas, but also speak the southern Fujian dialect of the "Fuluo" (belonging to the southern Fujian language "" Min-Taiwan piece"). MinTai piece") intercommunication.

For more than a thousand years, a lot of people in southern Fujian and Chaoshan have been migrating out of the country to make a living. The language of the people follow each other, Southeast Asian countries, there are a considerable part of the overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese still to Minnan dialect as their communication tools.

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