Xiamen
Xiamen is a metropolitan area in China
Inhabitants: 1,960,000 (World Rank 208)
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Xiamen, English pronunciation /ˈʃjɑːmən/ or SHYAH-muhn (厦门) (Amoy, Eng., pronunciation /ˈeɪmɔɪ/ or EH-moy; Archaic) is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders Quanzhou to the north and Zhangzhou to the south.
Xiamen and the surrounding countryside are famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese and one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. It covers an area of 1 565 km² with a local population of 5 million. It was recently named China's 2nd most livable city.