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What big cities are there near Xiamen?
The big cities near Xiamen are Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. Details are as follows:

Quanzhou 1

Quanzhou, a prefecture-level city in the southeast coast of Fujian Province, alias Licheng and Erythrina, is located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province and the west bank of Taiwan Strait, with Fuzhou in the north, Xiamen in the south and Taiwan Province Island in the east.

Quanzhou is located at117 25'-119 05' and 24 30'-25 56' north latitude. The nearest place to Taiwan Province Province is only 97 nautical miles, and the nearest place to Kinmen is only 5.6 1 nautical mile, and its east-west width is 65,438.

2. Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou lies between east longitude117-18 and north latitude 23.8-25, with a land area of187km from north to south and127km from east to west, with an area of126000. Boping Mountain spans the northwest, and Daiyun Mountain goes deep into the northern region. The main peak of Daqinshan Mountain in Pinghe County is 1544.5 meters above sea level, which is the first peak in Zhangzhou City.

The sea area of Zhangzhou is slightly larger than the land area. The mainland coastline is 5 19 km, the island coastline is 1 12 km, and the front width is about 128 km, showing a northeast trend. The tidal flat area above zero meter elevation is 285.5 square kilometers, and the aquaculture area is 1 17.2 square kilometers.

Extended data

The geographical environment of Xiamen:

Xiamen is located at 24 23' ~ 24 54' north latitude and117 53' ~118 26' east longitude. It is located in the southeast coast of China, in the south of Fujian Province, connected with Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and in the middle of the Golden Triangle in southern Fujian.

Xiamen consists of Xiamen Peninsula, Gulangyu Island and many small islands, reefs and Tongan, Jimei, Haicang, Xiang 'an, Xinglin Bay, Maluan Bay and Tongan Bay, with a land area of 1699.39 square kilometers and a sea area of about 390 square kilometers. Among them, Xiamen Island covers an area of about 157.76 square kilometers (including Gulangyu Island) and is the fourth largest island in Fujian Province, with a coastline of about 234 kilometers.

Xiamen is dominated by coastal plains, terraces and hills. Xiamen's topography inclines from northwest to southeast, and there are various types of topography, including Zhongshan, low mountains, high hills, low hills, terraces, plains and beaches. There are many middle and low mountains in the northwest, among which Genting Mountain, located at the junction of Tongan and Anxi, is the highest mountain in the city with an altitude of 1 175.2 meters.

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