| Anhai 安海镇 |
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| A pagoda near Anhai Bridge | |
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| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Fujian |
| Prefecture-level city | Quanzhou |
| County-level city | Jinjiang |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
Anhai (Chinese: 安海镇) is a town in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is located in the far southern suburbs of Quanzhou. and is separated by Weitou Bay (围头湾) from Kinmen, which is controlled by the Republic of China on Taiwan. Administratively Anhai is part of Jinjiang City. The highest point in the town's administrative area is Mount Lingyuan (灵源山) at 305 metres (1,001 ft).
Anhai was known in the past (Song Dynasty) as Anping (安平). The famous Song Dynasty Anping Bridge crosses a tidal estuary to the west of town, connecting Anhai with the neighboring town of Shuitou, in Nan'an county-level city.
Anhai was an important port during the Ming and early Qing periods; its name was often transcribed by Europeans as Gan-hai. The 19th-century researchers writing for the Hakluyt Society thought Anhai (Gan-hai) was the port of "Tansuso" visited by Martín de Rada, but later research identified Tansuso as Zhongzuosuo (中左所), which is in modern Xiamen, some 40 km to the west.[1]