Emei
Emei Township is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Emei has about 5,310 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tianen Maitreya Temple.
Tianen Maitreya Temple
Buddhist temple
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Tianen Maitreya Temple is a Buddhist temple, which is situated 3½ km west of Emei.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beipu and Sanwan.
Beipu
Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beipu Township is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Beipu is well known in Taiwan as a center of Hakka culture, especially for production of dongfang meiren tea and its special Hakkanese blends of tea and nuts called lei cha.
Sanwan
Town
Photo: Yoxem, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sanwan Township is a rural township in northern Miaoli County, Taiwan. It lies between the Taiwan Strait on the west and mountains on the east. Sanwan is situated 7 km southwest of Emei.
Zhudong
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Zhudong is a township of 96,000 people near Hsinchu City in Taiwan. It's quite a dingy run-down place, but has a nice view of the mountains and a friendly Taiwanese feel.
Emei
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Emei Village, Emei Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan Province, Northern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.6887° or 24° 41′ 19″ northLongitude
121.01962° or 121° 1′ 11″ eastPopulation
5,310Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)Open location code
7QP3M2Q9+FROpenStreetMap ID
node 60655873OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1671231Wikidata ID
Q709022
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Emei” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Emei Xiang”
- Chinese: “Gô-bî-hiong”
- Chinese: “峨眉”
- Chinese: “峨眉乡”
- Chinese: “峨眉鄉”
- Chinese: “月眉”
- Dutch: “Emei”
- French: “Emei”
- German: “Emei (Hsinchu)”
- German: “Emei”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ngò-mì-hiông”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ngô-mì-hiông”
- Japanese: “峨眉郷”
- Korean: “어메이향”
- Ladin: “Emei”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gô-bî-hiong”
- Russian: “Эмэй”
- Vietnamese: “Nga Mi, Tân Trúc”
- Vietnamese: “Nga Mi”
- Yue Chinese: “峨眉鄉”
- “峨眉鄉”
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