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  1. Island off the SE coast of China, and
  2. administered, along with the island of Matsu,
  3. by Taiwan. Quemoy: area 130 sq km/50 sq mi;
  4. population (1982) 57,847. Matsu: 44 sq km/17
  5. sq mi; population (1982) 11,000. When the
  6. islands were shelled from the mainland in
  7. 1960, the USA declared they would be defended
  8. if attacked.
  9.