Minnan region


Minnan, Southern Fujian, or Minnan Golden Triangle refers to the coastal region in southern Fujian Province, China, which includes the prefecture-level cities of Xiamen, Quanzhou 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.
G. William Skinner used the term Zhang-Quan to describe the region in his physiographic macroregions of China.