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…An administrative region in southeastern China. Its name is a combination of Fuzhou and Jianzhou, and dates back to the Tang dynasty. Its other name, Min, is the name of an ethnic group that lived in this region in ancient times. It has an area of ​​121,400 km2 and a population of 32.61 million (1996). It governs one district, eight prefecture-level cities, 15 county-level cities, and 46 counties, with Fuzhou as its capital. Up to 90% of the province is mountainous and hilly, with heights of 100 to 200 meters, and the only plains are narrow coastal areas and mountain basins. The coastline is highly curved, and there are more than 1,100 islands. Since there was little arable land and the soil was poor, agriculture was not well developed, so the people have long sought a way of life overseas, and together with Guangdong Province, it is one of the two major birthplaces of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. …

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…中国，南東部の行政区域。その名は福州と建州とを併せたもので唐代から始まり，別名の閩（びん）は古くこの地方にいた民族の名である。面積12万1400km2，人口3261万(1996)。1地区，8地級市，15県級市，46県を管轄し，省都は福州市。全省を通じて90％までが100～200mの山地と丘陵で，平地は狭小な海岸地帯と山間の盆地にすぎない。海岸線は屈曲に富み，島の数は1100余にも上る。耕地が少なく土地がやせ農業が発達しなかったので，人民は古くから活路を海外に求め，広東省とともに東南アジア華僑の二大出身地となっている。…

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