Minnan, Banlam or Minnan Golden Triangle (), refers to the coastal region in Southern
Fujian Province,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, which includes the
prefecture-level cities of
Xiamen,
Quanzhou
Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...
and
Zhangzhou. The region accounts for 40 percent of the GDP of Fujian Province. It is the native homeland of the
Hokkien people who speak the
Hokkien language or Minnan language, a variety of
Southern Min
Southern Min (), Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan ( ...
.
[http://www.fjfao.gov.cn/english/foreignersinfujian/fujianintheeyesofforeigners/201112/t20111222_625021.htm ]
Other terms used on the Minnan region include the one
sinologist
Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the ex ...
G. William Skinner used, which was the term Zhang-Quan () to describe the region in his guide to the
physiographic macroregions of China.
References
Fujian
Regions of China
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