Talk:Hainan

Tongzha -> Wuzhishan

The official name seems to have changed to Wuzhishan, so I will also change it here (WT-en) ClausHansen 10:45, 23 September 2009 (EDT)

Coconut question

An anon user "corrected" coconut milk to coconut juice and I reverted. At least in my Canadian English, "milk" is obviously correct. Would any speakers of other dialects care to comment? Pashley (talk) 18:34, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Internet

Chinese holiday island to unlock Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for foreign visitors from South China Morning Post, a major & usually reliable Hong Kong paper.

Story alsl mentions recruiting 50,000 English-speaking workers, mostly Filipino. Pashley (talk) 22:12, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Sanya

The article says Sanya Beach is "one of China's best-known beach areas". I think that may be an understatement—as far as I can tell it's China's best-known beach area, bar none. (Living in Shenzhen, it was the only Chinese beach resort outside of Guangdong that I ever heard about.)

Am I wrong, or should we edit the description to simply say "China's best-known beach area"? —Granger (talk · contribs) 17:12, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I didn't grow up in China, but as far as I can tell, Sanya is the only part of China that is known for its beaches. When I visited (in the winter), you could see cars from as far away as Heilongjiang, and the hotel prices were extremely expensive to the point that I had to stay in crap place in order not to break the bank. And the locals told me that houses were extremely expensive because many rich northerners owned second homes there. So in short, I think calling it "China's best known beach area" is accurate and not an overstatement. As far as I could remember, Haikou and Wenchang did not have as many tourists, and the prices were a lot more reasonable than in Sanya, so I could actually stay in decent hotels. The dog2 (talk) 19:07, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I'll go ahead and edit the article accordingly. If anyone disagrees, we can always change it back. —Granger (talk · contribs) 19:10, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Region discussion

If we wanted to divide Hainan into regions, I think the easiest way to do it would be roughly along ethnic lines, which would give us a north-south split. Northern Hainan would include Haikou, Chengmai, Lingao, Danzhou, Tunchang, Ding'an, Wenchang, Wanning, Qionghai and Bo'ao. Southern Hainan would include Sanya, Ledong, Dongfang, Baoting, Lingshui, Baisha, Qiongzhong, Changjiang and Wuzhishan.

Northern and southern Hainan are different both in terms of demographics and geology. The north is generally flatter and is overwhelmingly populated by Han Chinese. The south is much more mountainous and has a large population of indigenous people and other ethnic minorities. STW932 (talk) 12:21, 7 December 2023 (UTC)