Fujian
Fujian 福建; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien is a province on a southeastern waft of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, & the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou, while its largest city by population is Quanzhou, both located almost the glide of the Taiwan Strait in the east of the province.
While its population is predominantly of Chinese ethnicity, this is the one of the most culturally as well as linguistically diverse provinces in China. The dialects of the Linguistic communication multiple Min Chinese were most usually spoken within the province, including the Fuzhou dialect of northeastern Fujian together with various Hokkien dialects of southeastern Fujian. Hakka Chinese is also spoken, by the Hakka people in Fujian. Min dialects, Hakka and Mandarin Chinese are mutually unintelligible. Due to emigration, a sizable amount of the ethnic Chinese populations of Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines speak Southern Min or Hokkien.
With a population of 41.5 million, Fujian ranks Historical Fujian is now within the Republic of China ROC, Taiwan. The Fujian province of the ROC consist of three offshore archipelagos namely the Kinmen Islands, the Matsu Islands and the Wuqiu Islands.