Haikou

Haikou
Cheenese	海口
Leeteral meanin	Mooth o the sea
Transcriptions
Staundart Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Hǎikǒu
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	hoi2hau2
Soothren Min
Hokkien POJ	Hái-kháu

Haikou
Haikou; 海口
	Prefectur-level ceety
	海口市
	Eik-name(s): Coconut Ceety (椰子市)
	Location o Haikou Ceety jurisdiction in Hainan
	Haikou Location o the ceety centre in Hainan
	Coordinates: 20°02′34″N 110°20′30″E / 20.04278°N 110.34167°E
Kintra	Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
Province	Hainan
Govrenment
• CPC Municipal Pairty Secretary	Chen Ci (陈辞)
• Mayor	Ji Wenlin (冀文林)
Area
• Prefectur-level ceety	2237 km2 (864 sq mi)
• Urban	2237 km2 (864 sq mi)
• Metro	2280 km2 (880 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census)
• Prefectur-level ceety	2,046,189
• Density	910/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
• Urban	2,046,189
• Urban density	910/km2 (2,400/sq mi)
• Metro	2,046,189
• Metro density	900/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (Cheenae Staundart)
Postal code	570000
Area code(s)	898
Website	http://www.haikou.gov.cn/

Hǎikǒu (Cheenese: 海口), is the caipital an maist populous ceety o Hainan province, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. It is situatit on the northren coast o Hainan, bi the mooth o the Nandu River. The northren pairt o the ceety is the destrict o Haidian Island, which is separatit frae the main pairt o Haikou bi the Haidian River, a branch o the Nandu.

Admeenistratively, Haikou is a prefectur-level ceety, comprisin fower destricts, an coverin 2,280 square kilometre (880 sq mi). Thare are 2,046,189 indwallers in the built up area aw livin within the 4 urban destricts o the ceety.

Haikou wis oreeginally a port ceety. The day, mair nor hauf o the island's tot trade still gangs through its ports. The ceety is home tae Hainan Varsity, which haes its main campus on Haidian Island.

History

The hanzi characters comprisin the ceety's name, 海口, mean ocean/sea an mooth/port, respectively. Thus, the name "Haikou" is also a wird for "seaport". Haikou oreeginally served as the port for Qiongshan, the auncient admeenistrative caipital o Hainan island, locatit some 5 kilometre (3.1 mi)^* inland tae the sooth east. Durin its early history Haikou wis a pairt o Guangdong province. In the 13t century it wis fortified an acame a militar post unner the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). The port is locatit wast o the mooth o the Nandu River, Hainan's principal river. When Qiongshan wis opened tae foreign trade unner the Treaty o Tianjin in 1858, Haikou stairtit tae rival the auld admeenistrative ceety. In 1926, Haikou owertook Qiongshan in population an it wis declared a separate admeenistrative ceety. Haikou wis developed as a port durin the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) when the Japanese invadit an occupied Hainan Island frae early 1939 tae 1945.

Syne 1949, Haikou haes maintained its poseetion as Hainan's main port, haundlin mair nor hauf o the island's tot trade. It haes replaced Qiongshan as the island's admeenistrative capital. In 1988, Haikou wis made a prefectur-level ceety as well as the caipital o the newly-creatit Hainan Province.

Haikou auld toun contains the auldest biggins in the ceety an wis lairgely biggit bi wealthy Cheenese frae the mainland an some owerseas Cheenese who haed returned tae their homeland. The hooses are a mixtur o styles includin Portuguese, French, an Sootheast Asie. The streets uised tae be dividit intae different auries sellin Cheenese an wastren medicine, for silk an bespoke clothes, ane for fresh fish an meat, an ithers for the sale o incense, candles, paper, ink, an ither guids.

Various projects are currently unner discussion tae decide the baist wye tae restore an preserve these historical biggins.

International relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Haikou is twinned wi:

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Perth	Scotland	Unitit Kinrick
Oklahoma Ceety	Oklahoma	Unitit States
Scottsdale	Arizona	Unitit States
Gdynia	Pomeranian Voivodeship	Poland
Denpasar	Bali	Indonesie
Darwin	Northren Territory	Australie