Mazu (municipality)

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Mazu ( Chinese  馬祖鄉  /  马祖乡 , Pinyin Mǎzǔ Xiang ) is a municipality in the district of Lianjiang the prefecture-level city Fuzhou in the Chinese province of Fujian . Mazu has an area of ​​29.6 km² and at the end of 2012 over 11,000 inhabitants.

Political situation

The "Mazu Township" is - beyond its zip code (350122206) and a seat reserved for it in the People's Congress of Lianjiang County - pure fiction. Their territory is identical to that of the Matsu Islands and thus also to the Lianjiang County of the Republic of China . Lianjiang County is under the Kinmen- based Fujian Provincial Administration of the Republic of China in Taiwan . H. the People's Republic of China has never exercised control over the "Mazu Municipality". This condition is a legacy of the Chinese civil war .

territory

The 36 islands and islets of the "Municipality of Mazu" are divided into three groups of islands. The central group, consisting u. a. from Nangan , Beigan , Gaodeng and Liang , has belonged to Lianjiang County since the early Republican times . The southern group, consisting of Xiju , Dongju and Yongliu originally belonged to Changle City , the northern group, consisting of Dongyin and Xiyin, originally belonged to Luoyuan County . In 1956, the government of the Republic of China officially incorporated them into Lianjiang County with its county administration on Nangan. This territorial reform, which at least affects the boundaries of two districts and an independent city in the province of Fujian, was tacitly - and of course virtually - reproduced by the People's Republic of China, so that the fictitious "community of Mazu" of the People's Republic is again completely identical to the Lianjiang district of the Republic China. Only the island of Xiyang Dao (西洋 岛), which was captured by the People's Liberation Army in 1953 and belongs to the central group, was then separated from the People's Republic of Lianjiang County and incorporated into the Xiapu County of Ningde City .

Coordinates: 26 ° 10 '  N , 119 ° 57'  E