Anjwa-myeon (

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hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

: 安佐面), is a ''myeon'' located in

Sinan County, South Jeolla Sinan County (''Sinan-gun'') is a county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. The county consists of 111 inhabited islands and 719 uninhabited islands. The number of islands in this county accounts for 25% of all islands in South Korea. Big ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

. It has an area of 59.97 km², and its population in 2021 was 2,700. It includes Banwol Island (

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: 半月島, ) and Bakji Island (also known as Parkji Island, Korean: ,

: 朴只島), which have been given the name the ''Purple Isles''. Each island forms a ''ri'' in its own right within Anjwa-myeon. Banwol Island is a farming community with 21,500 square meters of

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fields. The

purple Purple is any of a variety of colors with hue between red and blue. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purples are produced by mixing red and blue light. In the RYB color model historically used by painters, pu ...

flowers inspired a rebrand for the region, with 400 buildings in the region painting their roofs purple, as well as telephone boxes. Since the initial painting in 2018, more than 490,000 visitors had come to the island as of 2021. Banwol Island and Bakji Island are connected by a large purple bridge.

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