It is also widely used as the mother tongue in Wuqiu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan).

Overseas populations of Pu-Xian speakers exist in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

Before the year 979 AD, the Pu-Xian region was part of Quanzhou county and hence people there spoke a form of Southern Min.

Pu-Xian is distinctive for having a lateral fricative [ɬ] instead of the [s] in other Min varieties, similar to Taishanese.

Pu–Xian Min has 53 finals (including nasalised finals) 新婦房　ɬiŋ pu paŋ　→　ɬiŋ mu βaŋ 青草 tsʰɔŋ tsʰau　→　tsʰɔŋ nau Hing-hua̍ báⁿ-uā-ci̍ (興化平話字) is the Romanization system for Pu–Xian Min.