Fujian [Province] - Fujian

Japanese: 福建[省] - ふっけん

A province on the southeast coast of mainland China, facing the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Its capital is Fuzhou. Its abbreviated name is Bin. The province is mountainous overall, with only a few plains in the valleys and coastal areas of the Oujiang, Binjiang, and Jiulongjiang rivers, which originate in the Wuyi Mountains on the border with Jiangxi Province and the Xianxialing Mountains on the border with Zhejiang Province, and transportation between the river valleys and plains is inconvenient. It is connected to Zhejiang and Jiangxi Provinces by mountain passes, and relies on coastal shipping routes centered around Xiamen and Fuzhou. In 1956, the Yingtan-Xiamen Railway, which runs north to south, was completed, and the Nanping-Fuzhou-South Railway was also built, connecting Nanping, Fuzhou, and the South-Kan area. Although the cultivated land area is only 15% of the province's total land area, it produces rice, which is grown twice a year, as well as sweet potatoes, wheat, soybeans, sugarcane, tea, and fruits (tangerines, longans, lychees). The province is rich in fisheries, with croaker, hairtail, and sea bream being caught, and solar salt production (Hoden, Zhaoan) is also carried out along the coast. There is anthracite from the Binjiang coalfields in the north and the Longyan coalfields in the south, iron from Anxi and Huaan, and molybdenum from Yongtai and Ningde. Small-scale handicrafts are widely practiced, mainly paper, ink, tea, rice, and sugar, and modern industries are centered in Fuzhou and Xiamen. It has close ties with Taiwan across the strait, and is famous as the birthplace of overseas Chinese from the South Seas (Southeast Asia). It has an area of 121,400 ^km2 . Population: 35.79 million (2014).
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Japanese:

中国大陸南東岸，東シナ海，台湾海峡に臨む省。省都は福州。簡称は【びん】。江西省境の武夷山脈や浙江省境の仙霞嶺山脈に発源する甌江・【びん】江・九竜江などの渓谷や海岸部に，わずかに平野があるのみで，全体に山がち，各河谷平野間の交通も不便。浙江・江西省とも峠によって連絡するほかは，厦門(アモイ)，福州などを中心とする沿岸航路に頼っている。1956年に南北を貫く鷹厦(ようか)鉄路（鷹潭〜厦門）が完成，また南平〜福州〜南【かん】(なんかん)を結ぶ南福鉄路も建設された。耕地面積は省面積の15％にすぎないが，米の二期作，サツマイモ，小麦，大豆，サトウキビ，茶，果実（ミカン，リュウガン，レイシ）などを産する。水産は豊富で，グチ，タチウオ，タイなどが漁獲され，沿岸では天日製塩（【ほ】田(ほでん)，詔安）も行われる。北部の【びん】江炭田，南部の竜岩炭田の無煙炭，安渓・華安の鉄，永泰・寧徳などのモリブデンがある。小規模な手工業が広く行われ，紙・墨・製茶・製米・製糖が主で，近代工業は福州，厦門を中心とする。対岸の台湾との関係が密接で，南洋（東南アジア）華僑(かきょう)の出身地として有名。12万1400km²。3579万人（2014）。
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