Wugu

Wugu District is a suburban district in the western part of New Taipei City in northern Taiwan. It has an area of 34.86 km2 and a population of 90,465 people.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chiao-hsi Railway Station and Jiaoxi Xietian Temple.

Chiao-hsi Railway Station

Railway station

Photo: Wtor2805, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jiaoxi is a railway station on the Taiwan Railway Yilan line. It is located in Jiaoxi Township, Yilan County, Taiwan.

Jiaoxi Xietian Temple

Place of worship

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Jiaoxi Xietian Temple is a place of worship.

Dingpu

Railway stop

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Dingpu is a railway station of Taiwan Railway Yilan line located at Toucheng Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. Dingpu Station began operations in 1937. Dingpu is situated 3½ km northeast of Wugu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toucheng and Zhuangwei.

Toucheng Township is an urban township in Yilan County, Taiwan. The township includes Guishan Island and Guiluan Island in the Philippine Sea. The Senkaku Islands, known in Mandarin as the Diaoyu Islands, are claimed as part of the township.

Zhuangwei

Town

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Zhuangwei Township or Jhuangwei Township is a rural township in eastern Yilan County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China, the smallest in the county. Zhuangwei is situated 8 km south of Wugu.

Yilan

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Yilan is a city on the east coast of Taiwan. As the area was mostly settled by Han Chinese immigrants from Zhangzhou, the local dialect of Taiwanese is noticeably more similar to that of Zhangzhou than in other parts of Taiwan.

Wugu

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Wu-ku”
Location: Erlong Village, Jiaoxi, Yilan County, Taiwan Province, Eastern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

24.81861° or 24° 49′ 7″ north

Longitude

121.78806° or 121° 47′ 17″ east

Elevation

-2 metres (-7 feet)

Open location code

7QP3RQ9Q+C6

GeoNames ID

1665845

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In Other Languages

“Wugu” goes by many names.

Chinese: “五股”

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