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Quemoy, Kinmen, or Chinmen (金門, pinyinPinyin (, pinyin) literally means "join together sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to Hany pinyin (, literal meaning: " Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanizati Jinmén, local: Kim1 Mng5) (pop. 43,000) is a small archipelagoAn archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands. Archipelagoes usually occur in the open sea; less commonly a large land mass may neighbour them. Archipelagos are often volcanic, forming along ocean ridges or hot spots, but th of several islandAdriatic sea An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets . Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on as administered by the Republic of ChinaThe Republic of China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHua MinGuo, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Minguo) is a de facto sovereign state that currently administers the island groups of Taiwan, Peng (ROC) on TaiwanFor the political entity commonly known as "Taiwan," see Republic of China. The island of Taiwan ( Traditional: , Simplified: , Pinyin: Taiwn, Wade-Giles: T'ai-wan, Taiwanese: Tai-oan) is located off the coast of China in the Pacific Ocean. It is also kno: Greater Quemoy (大金門), Lesser Quemoy (小金門), and some isletO‘ahu, Hawai‘i, 2. 2 km off North Beach, MCBH An islet is a small island. A rock a sometime synonym for a type of "islet", is a landform comprised of rock, lying offshore, having no or minimal vegetation, and uninhabited (see Mokolea Rock at left). An exps. Administratively, it is in the Kinmen County of FujianFujian (; alternate spellings Fukien Foukien pinyin Fujian Wade-Giles Fu-chien local transliteration Hokkien from Min-nan Hok-kian is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. The name Fujian comes from the combination of Fuzhou and Jian'ou, t Province. The county is claimed as part of Fujian's QuanzhouQuanzhou is a prefecture level city, located in the Fujian province of China. For English speakers, the name is pronounced as "Chwen-Joe". Colleges and Universities [National] Huaqiao University [Public] Quanzhou Normal College [Private] Yang-en Universit Prefecture by the People's Republic of China.

Many of the inhabitants speak the Southern Min language. Quemoy is geographically very near Xiamen.

"Quemoy"/"Kim1 Mng5", meaning "Golden Door" or "Golden Gate", is in the Min language, "Kinmen" an archaic Mandarin Romanization. (The modern Mandarin transcription is "Chin-men" ( Wade-Giles) or "Jinmen" Pinyin).)