Checheng
Checheng Township is a rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. Checheng has about 8,740 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,740 residents
- Description: A rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Ch’ai-ch’eng”, “Ch’e-ch’eng”, “Ch’e-ch’eng-chuang”, and “Checheng Township”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Checheng FuAn Temple and National Museum of Marine Biology / Aguarium.
Checheng FuAn Temple
Place of worship
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The Checheng Fu'an Temple is a temple in Checheng Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan.
National Museum of Marine Biology / Aguarium
Museum
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The National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium is the most notable museum and research institution for marine biology in Taiwan, which located in Checheng Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. National Museum of Marine Biology / Aguarium is situated 3½ km southwest of Checheng.
Guishan
Peak
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Guishan is a peak, which is situated 3 km southwest of Checheng.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mudan.
Mudan
Town
Photo: Eric850130, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mudan Township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The main population is the Paiwan people of the Taiwanese aborigines. Mudan is situated 8 km northeast of Checheng.
Checheng
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Fuxing Village, Checheng Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, Southern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.07395° or 22° 4′ 26″ northLongitude
120.71419° or 120° 42′ 51″ eastPopulation
8,740Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
7QJ23PF7+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4252465638OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1679004Wikidata ID
Q712977
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Checheng” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Checheng”
- Cebuano: “Checheng Xiang”
- Chinese: “Chēchéng Xiāng”
- Chinese: “Chhâ-siâⁿ-hiong”
- Chinese: “庫匹亞旺”
- Chinese: “柴城”
- Chinese: “車城”
- Chinese: “車城鄉”
- Chinese: “车城”
- Chinese: “车城乡”
- Chinese: “龜壁灣”
- French: “Checheng”
- German: “Checheng”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tshâ-sàng-hiông”
- Italian: “Checheng”
- Japanese: “車城”
- Japanese: “車城郷”
- Korean: “처청향”
- Ladin: “Checheng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhia-siâⁿ-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ku-piah-uan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thóng-niá-poo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tshâ-siânn-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tshâ-siânn”
- Paiwan: “Kabeyawan”
- Russian: “Чэчэн”
- Vietnamese: “Xa Thành, Bình Đông”
- Vietnamese: “Xa Thành”
- “庫匹亞旺”
- “柴城”
- “車城”
- “車城鄉”
- “龜壁灣”
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