Miaoli County
Houlong Township
Zhonglong Village

Houlong

Houlong Township is an urban township in western , . It is bordered by the Taiwan Strait on the west and on the east. It lies at the mouth of the . is located in Houlong.
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  • Type: Town with 37,300 residents
  • Description: urban township in Miaoli County, Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Hou-lung”, “Hou-lung-chuang”, “Houlong Township”, and “Houlung”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hou-lung Station and Shuntian Temple.

Railway station
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Houlong is a railway station on Taiwan Railway West Coast line located in Houlong Township, , .

Place of worship
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is a place of worship.

Tomb
Photo: SSR2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Miaoli and Touwu.

Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
City is a county-administered city and the county seat of , . has a relatively high percentage of Hakka people. It had the second highest residential price and the highest commercial price for land in County as of 2004, at NT$28,601 per square meter and NT$63,317 per square meter, respectively.

Town
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Township is a rural township in north-western , . is situated 7 km southeast of Houlong.

Town
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Township is a rural township in , . is situated 7 km southwest of Houlong.

Houlong

Latitude
24.61357° or 24° 36′ 49″ north
Longitude
120.79192° or 120° 47′ 31″ east
Population
37,300
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
7QP2JQ7R+CQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655694
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1676015
Wiki­data ID
Q713564
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Houlong” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Houlong Zhen”
  • Chinese: “Āu-lâng-tìn”
  • Chinese: “后龙镇”
  • Chinese: “後壠”
  • Chinese: “後龍”
  • Chinese: “後龍鄉”
  • Chinese: “後龍鎮”
  • French: “Houlong”
  • German: “Houlong”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Heu-liùng-chṳ́n”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Heu-liùng-tsṳ́n”
  • Italian: “Houlong”
  • Japanese: “後龍”
  • Japanese: “後龍鎮”
  • Korean: “허우룽진”
  • Ladin: “Houlong”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Āu-lâng-tìn”
  • Russian: “Хоулун”
  • Vietnamese: “Hậu Long, Miêu Lật”
  • Vietnamese: “Hậu Long”
  • Yue Chinese: “後龍鎮”
  • “後龍鎮”

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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 “Houlong”. Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.