Matsu Islands
The Matsu Islands are named after the main island, Nangan (Nankan). Nangan is also named Matsu Island because of a temple on the island which is supposed to be the burial site of the similarly named goddess Mazu (). Matsu is the Wade-Giles-derived romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation ("Ma³-tsu³") for the Chinese character name () of the islands. The Matsu Islands are also known by other names in Chinese languages including and ; Foochow Romanized: Mā-cū dō̤).