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Published in final edited form as: Remote Sens Environ. 2018 Dec 5;238:110987. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.030

Table 2.

Distribution of tidal flats in different provinces in China in 2016.

Province	Tidal flats area (ha)	Percentage (%)	Coastline length (10³ m)	Mean tidal flats width (m) (Tidal flats area/coastline length)
Liaoning	20,676	2.8	2494	82.9
Hebei	72,787	10.0	501	1452.8
Tianjin	62,708	8.6	116	5405.9
Shandong	224,940	30.8	896.2	858
Jiangsu	46,774	6.4	704	664.4
Shanghai	10,995	1.5	615	178.8
Zhejiang	64,105	8.7	3427	187.1
Fujian	91,200	12.5	4185	217.9
Taiwan	25,070	3.4	1516	165.4
Guangdong (including Hong Kong and Macao)	55,492	7.6	6034	92.0
Guangxi	22,265	3.0	1038	214.5
Hainan	34,150	4.7	1439	237.3
Total	731,170	100	24,609	297.1