Lucao
Lucao Township is a rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan. Lucao has about 15,800 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 15,800 residents
- Description: A rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Lu-ts’ao”, “Lu-ts’ao-chuang”, “Lu-tzu-ts’ao”, “Lucao Township”, “Lucao, Chiayi”, “Luts’ao”, and “Lutsau”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yuanshan Temple and Chenghuang Temple.
Yuanshan Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Outlookxp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yuanshan Temple is a temple in Lucao Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. The temple is dedicated to Wangsun Dashi, a legendary child from the Song dynasty.
Chenghuang Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Sean Chiu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chenghuang Temple is a place of worship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taibao and Houbi District.
Taibao
Town
Photo: Vincent Lucas Wagner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Taibao is a county-administered city and the county seat of Chiayi County, Taiwan. Taibao is situated 6 km northeast of Lucao.
Houbi District
Town
Photo: SSR2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Houbi District is a rural district of about 22,108 residents in Tainan, Taiwan. Houbi District is situated 7 km southeast of Lucao.
Puzi
Town
Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puzi is a county-administered city in Chiayi County, Taiwan. The Chiayi County Council is located in Puzi. Puzi is situated 9 km northwest of Lucao.
Lucao
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Lucao Village, Lucao Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan Province, Southern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.41078° or 23° 24′ 39″ northLongitude
120.30837° or 120° 18′ 30″ eastPopulation
15,800Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
7QM2C865+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655672OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1672306Wikidata ID
Q715873
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Lucao” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lucao Xiang”
- Chinese: “Lo̍k-chháu-hiong”
- Chinese: “鹿仔草”
- Chinese: “鹿草”
- Chinese: “鹿草乡”
- Chinese: “鹿草鄉”
- French: “Lucao”
- German: “Lucao”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lu̍k-tshó-hiông”
- Japanese: “鹿草”
- Japanese: “鹿草郷”
- Korean: “루차오향”
- Ladin: “Lucao”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lok-chháu-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lo̍k-tsháu-hiong”
- Polish: “Lucao”
- Russian: “Луцао”
- Vietnamese: “Lộc Thảo, Gia Nghĩa”
- Vietnamese: “Lộc Thảo”
- Yue Chinese: “鹿草”
- “鹿草鄉”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lucao”. Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY-SA 3.0.