Located at the mouth of the Bay of Xiamen and only two thousand meters from the coast of mainland China, the island of Kinmen has been the first stop for people emigrating from the mainland to Taiwan and the Pescadores from as far back as the Tang (618-906) and Sung (960-1280) dynasties.
位居大陸廈門灣口，與大陸相距僅兩千公尺的金門，自唐宋以來就是就大陸移民到台灣、澎湖的第一站。