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Website. www.hualien.gov.tw. Hualien City (pinyin : Huālián Shì; Wade-Giles: Hua¹-lien² Shih⁴; Hokkien POJ: Hoa-lian-chhī or Hoa-liân-chhī) is a county-administered city and the county seat of Hualien County, Taiwan. It is located on the east coast of Taiwan on the Pacific Ocean, and has a population of 99,458 inhabitants.
Hualien County (Mandarin Wade–Giles: Hua¹-lien² Hsien⁴; Pīnyīn: Huālián Xiàn; Hokkien POJ: Hoa-lian-koān or Hoa-liân-koān; Hakka PFS: Fâ-lièn-yen; Amis: Kalingko) is a county on the east coast of Taiwan. It is Taiwan's largest county by area, yet due to its mountainous terrain, has one of the lowest populations in the country.
28 November 1986. Taroko National Park (Chinese : 太魯閣 國家公園; pinyin : Tàilǔgé Gúojiā Gōngyuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Thài-ló͘-koh Kok-ka Kong-hn̂g) is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan and was named after the Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park carved by the Liwu River. The park spans Taichung Municipality ...
On 3 April 2024, at 07:58:11 NST (23:58:11 UTC on 2 April), a Mw 7.4 earthquake struck 15 km (9.3 mi) [4] south of Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. At least 18 people were killed and over 1,100 were injured in the earthquake. It is the strongest earthquake in Taiwan since the 1999 Jiji earthquake, [5] with three aftershocks above M w 6.0.
A map showing the migration of the Austronesians out of Taiwan from c. 3000 BC Plains Indigenous boy and woman by Paul Ibis, 1877. Indigenous Taiwanese are Austronesian peoples, with linguistic and genetic ties to other Austronesian ethnic groups, such as peoples of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Madagascar, and Oceania.
The Huadong Valley or Hualien–Taitung Valley (Chinese: 花東縱谷; pinyin: Huādōng Zònggǔ; Wade–Giles: Hua 1-tung 1 Tsung 4-ku 3), also known as East Rift Valley, the Longitudinal Valley or as the Nakasendō Plain (中仙道平野, Nakasendō Heiya) during the era of Japanese rule, is a long and narrow valley located between the Central Mountain Range and the Coastal Mountain Range ...
Xiulin Township / Sioulin Township (Chinese: 秀林 鄉; Hanyu Pinyin: Xiùlín Xiāng; Tongyong Pinyin: Siòulín Siang) is a mountain indigenous township of Hualien County, Taiwan. It is located northwest of Hualien City , and is the largest township in Taiwan by area (1,641.86 km²) with 9 villages.
12,938,686 tons (2011) Website Official website. The Port of Hualien (Chinese : 花蓮港; pinyin : Huālián Gǎng) is an international port on the Pacific Ocean in Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. Its artificial harbor protected by breakwaters was built in 1930–1939. There are 25 wharves in Hualien Port.