page_title: Lieyu
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Lieyu / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Amoy and Surroundings 1954
context_page_description: Lieyu Township is a rural township in Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. It mainly consists of Lesser Kinmen, Dadan, and Erdan, three islands of the ROC located to the west of Greater Kinmen and immediately to the east of Xiamen of the People's Republic of China.
context_section_description: The island of Lesser Kinmen is situated outside the mouth of mainland China's Jiulong River and inside Xiamen's harbor. The distance from mainland China at the closest point is only about 5,000 m (16,000 ft) and is located in a very strategic position.
  Lieyu Township includes numerous islands and islets. Some of the larger among those islands and islets include:
  Lesser Kinmen (Hsiao Kinmen, Lieyu; 小金門, 烈嶼)
  Dadan Island (大膽島) (5 km (3.1 mi) to the southwest of Lesser Kinmen)
  Erdan Island (二膽島) (6 km (3.7 mi) to the southwest of Lesser Kinmen)
  Fuxing Islet (Fuhsing Islet; Phaktia) (復興嶼)
  Menghu Islet (Tiger Island) (猛虎嶼)
  Shi Islet (Lion Islet) (獅嶼)
  Binlang Islet ('Areca Nut Islet') (檳榔嶼)
caption: Map including Lieyu (Lesser Kinmen) (labelled as Lieh Hsü (Little Quemoy)) (AMS, 1954)
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