Hainan, an island of China, in the extreme S., between the Gulf of Tongking and the China Sea, 15 m. S. of the mainland; agriculture is the staple industry; the mountainous and wooded interior is occupied by the aboriginal Les.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,500,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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