Yizhu
Yizhu Township or Yijhu Township is a rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan. Yizhu has about 18,800 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 18,800 residents
- Description: A rural township in Chiayi County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “I-chu”, “I-chu-wei”, “Ichu”, “Yijhu”, “Yiju”, “Yizhu Township”, and “Yizhu, Chiayi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yanshui Martial Temple and Yanshui Hubi Temple.
Yanshui Martial Temple
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Yanshui Martial Temple is situated 2½ km southeast of Yizhu.
Yanshui Hubi Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Pbdragonwang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yanshui Hubi Temple is a place of worship, which is situated 3 km southeast of Yizhu.
Wushisan Jiangjun Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Outlookxp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wushisan Jiangjun Temple is a place of worship, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Yizhu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yanshui District and Xinying District.
Yanshui District
Town
Photo: Chengyuki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yanshuei District, alternatively spelled Yanshui, is a district in Tainan, Taiwan, which is famous for its notoriously dangerous fireworks festival. The annual event commemorates a cholera epidemic more than a century ago, the fireworks symbolizing the exorcism of demons associated with the plague. Yanshui District is situated 3 km southeast of Yizhu.
Xinying District
Town
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Xinying District or Sinying District is a district and the location of the second administrative center of the Tainan City Government in Taiwan. Sugar production was the most important industry in Xinying. Xinying District is situated 8 km east of Yizhu.
Budai Township
Town
Budai Township is an urban township in Chiayi County, Taiwan. Budai Township is situated 9 km northwest of Yizhu.
Yizhu
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Liugui Village, Yizhu Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan Province, Southern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
23.33628° or 23° 20′ 11″ northLongitude
120.24342° or 120° 14′ 36″ eastPopulation
18,800Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
7QM286PV+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655864OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1674229Wikidata ID
Q718371
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Satellite Map
Discover Yizhu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Yizhu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yizhu Xiang”
- Chinese: “Gī-tek-hiong”
- Chinese: “义竹”
- Chinese: “义竹乡”
- Chinese: “二竹圍”
- Chinese: “義竹”
- Chinese: “義竹圍”
- Chinese: “義竹鄉”
- German: “Yizhu”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ngi-tsuk-hiông”
- Japanese: “義竹”
- Japanese: “義竹郷”
- Korean: “이주향”
- Ladin: “Yizhu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gī-tek-hiong”
- Polish: “Yizhu”
- Russian: “Ичжу”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa Trúc, Gia Nghĩa”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa Trúc”
- Yue Chinese: “義竹”
- “義竹鄉”
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Notable Places Nearby
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