Changhua County
Hemei Township
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Xizhou

Xizhou Township is a rural township in , . It has a population total of 28,597 and an area of 75.83 square kilometres. It is the third largest township in Changhua County after and Fangyuan.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 27,300 residents
  • Description: A rural township in Changhua County, Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Hsi-chou”, “Hsichou”, “Hsichou Township”, “Shijou”, “Sijhou”, “Syijou”, and “Xizhou, Changhua”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Changhua railway station and Zhuifen railway station.

Railway station
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Changhua is a railway station in , , Taiwan served by Taiwan Railway. It is located at the southern junction of the Taichung line and Coastal line, where the line continues onto the southern section of the West Coast line. is situated 4 km south of Xizhou.

Railway station
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Zhuifen is a railway station on Taiwan Railway Western Trunk line located in , , . Train tickets from Zhuifen station to via the Chengzhui line are considered auspicious among students for having the double meaning… is situated 3½ km east of Xizhou.

is a railway roundhouse operated by Taiwan Railway in Changhua City, , . The roundhouse is located directly north of . Built in 1922, it is the only surviving railway roundhouse in Taiwan. is situated 3½ km south of Xizhou.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Changhua and Dadu District.

Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially known as City, is a county-administered city and the county seat of in . For many centuries the site was home to a settlement of Babuza people, a coastal tribe of Taiwanese aborigines.

Suburb
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is a suburban district in southwestern , . The eponymous flows nearby. is situated 4 km north of Xizhou.

Town
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Township is an urban township in northwestern , . It is bordered by the to the north, and to the west, and to the south, and Changhua City to the east. is situated 4 km west of Xizhou.

Xizhou

Latitude
24.11566° or 24° 6′ 56″ north
Longitude
120.53499° or 120° 32′ 6″ east
Population
27,300
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
7QP24G8M+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3655288477
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
6748148
Wiki­data ID
Q708820
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Xizhou” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Xizhou Xiang”
  • Chinese: “Khe-chiu-hiong”
  • Chinese: “溪州”
  • Chinese: “溪州乡”
  • Chinese: “溪州鄉”
  • Chinese: “溪洲”
  • Dutch: “Xizhou”
  • German: “Hsichou”
  • German: “Xizhou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hâi-chû-hiông”
  • Italian: “Xizhou”
  • Japanese: “渓州”
  • Japanese: “渓州郷”
  • Korean: “시저우향”
  • Ladin: “Xizhou”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Khe-chiu-hiong”
  • Persian: “شیجو، جانگوآ”
  • Polish: “Xizhou”
  • Russian: “Сичжоу”
  • Vietnamese: “Khê Châu, Chương Hóa”
  • Vietnamese: “Khê Châu”
  • “溪州鄉”

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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 “Xizhou”. Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY 2.0.