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The Shengsi Islands or Archipelago () are part of the
Zhoushan Archipelago Zhoushan 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 Hangzhou Bay off the mainland c ...
and located south of the mouth of the
Yangtze The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
(east of Hangzhou Bay). They comprise 394 islands, each with an area larger than , but of which just 18 are inhabitable. The largest island is Sijiao Island with an area of . The islands are administered by Shengsi County of Zhoushan City. The islands have a subtropical climate, with yearly average temperature of . The area is also notable as tourist destination and a fishery that attracts more than 100,000 fishermen every winter.Shanghai Star, 2001-04-26


See also

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Houtouwan Houtouwan () is an abandoned fishing village and tourist attraction on the northern side of Shengshan Island (), one of the Shengsi Islands, a chain of nearly 400 islands located east of Shanghai, China China, officially the People's ...
, abandoned village on Shengshan Island, now a tourist attraction * Majishan, one of the Shengsi Islands


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Shanghai Star, 2001-04-26
Zhoushan Tourist attractions in Zhejiang Islands of the East China Sea Archipelagoes of China Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean Shengsi Islands {{PRChina-geo-stub