Pingtan

• (from Wade–Giles) Ping-tan, P'ing-t'an

From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 平潭 (Píngtán).

Pingtan

1. the largest island in Fujian, China
   • 1957 March 15, “Shipwrecked”, in Peace News‎, number 1081, page 2:

     The shipwrecked group travelled by junk next day to Pingtan Island and four days later sailed to Hongkong.

   • 2007 October 13, “China to build sea bridge to 5th-largest island”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 15 June 2022, World News:

     The 1.1 billion yuan ($152 million) sea bridge will connect Pingtan Island, located in the Taiwan Strait, to Fuqing, a city on the main landmass of eastern Fujian Province, Xinhua said.

   • 2022 August 4, Lendon, Brad, “China fires missiles near Taiwan in live-fire drills as PLA encircles island”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 04 August 2022:

     Chinese state media said that exercises to simulate an air and sea "blockade" around Taiwan had started Wednesday, but offered little solid evidence to back up the claim. Later Thursday, images showed military helicopters flying past Pingtan island, one of Taiwan's closest points to mainland China.

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2. A county of Fuzhou, Fujian, China
   • 1999, Chin, Ko-lin, Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States‎, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 99-36088, OCLC 1127688443, page 13:

     Although some Fuqin City residents have managed to go to the United States illegally, most have chosen to go to Japan, also illegally (Gu 1993). The other sending community is Pingtan County, located east of Fuqin City. Many of its residents have illegally immigrated to Taiwan, which is only about seventy sea miles away (Chang 1995).

3. A town in Huiyang district, Huizhou, Guangdong, China

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