| Sanya is an
important political, economic, cultural and foreign
trade port in the southern part of Hainan, China,
and also a famous coastal tourist city filled with
tropical landscapes and local customs. Since Sanya
is situated in the southernmost part of China, she
has been called "theremotest cape of the earth" since ancient time.
The region of Sanya has a long history of human
development. There were discoveries of cultural
relics of the Old Stone Age. Ancient Persian tombs
were found along the coast.
Sanya region was called Ahuya Prefecture in the
western Han dynasty, later changed to Linzhen
Prefecture in the Sui Dynasty, Zhen Zhou in the
Tang dynasty, Ya Zhou in the Song Dynasty, Ya
County in 1920 and Sanya City in 1984.
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