Shengsi County is a

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in the northeast of

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province consisting of an archipelago islands located to the east of

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. It is under the administration of

Zhoushan Zhoushan , formerly romanized as Chusan, is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of H ...

City and is the easternmost

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in the province. The islands of Greater and

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are connected with

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by the

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and their port forms part of the

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. They are, however, not counted among the

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. The county consists of 630 islands and islets, of which 13 have more than 100 inhabitants.

Administrative divisions

Towns: * Caiyuan (菜园镇), Shengshan (嵊山镇),

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(洋山镇) Townships: * Wulong Township (五龙乡), Huanglong Township (黄龙乡),

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(枸杞乡), Huadao Township (花鸟乡)

Climate

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Administrative divisions

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