Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung, with 2.73 million inhabitants in October 2023, is the third most populated city in Taiwan after New Taipei and Taichung. It is located in the south of the island on the west coast.- …has 2,730,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 19 metres (62 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Takao”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaohsiung Mosque and Fengshan.
Kaohsiung Mosque
Mosque
The Kaohsiung Mosque is a mosque in the Lingya District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Fengshan
Railway station
Fongshan station, is a railway station on Taiwan…
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)
Theater building
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, also known…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fongshan District and Sanmin District.
Fongshan District
Suburb
Fongshan District is a district located in southern Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Sanmin District
Suburb
Sanmin District is a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Sanmin District is situated 7 km west of Kaohsiung.
Kaohsiung
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Latitude
22.6343° or 22° 38′ 3″ north
Longitude
120.3662° or 120° 21′ 58″ east
Open location code
7QJ2J9M8+PF
GeoNames ID
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Kaohsiung” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ታካዋ”
- Arabic: “كاوهسيونغ”
- Azerbaijani: “Takao”
- Bengali: “তাকাও”
- Bulgarian: “Гаосюн”
- Burmese: “ကောင်းရှုံမြို့”
- Chinese: “高雄市”
- Czech: “Kao-siung”
- Esperanto: “Kaoŝiung”
- French: “Takao”
- Gan Chinese: “高雄市”
- German: “Takao”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kô-hiùng-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Takao”
- Hungarian: “Kaohsziung”
- Indonesian: “Kota Kaohsiung”
- Japanese: “高雄市”
- Javanese: “Takao”
- Kazakh: “Такао”
- Kirghiz: “Такао”
- Korean: “가오슝 시”
- Lithuanian: “Gaosiongas”
- Malay: “Takao”
- Mongolian: “Гаошюн”
- Oromo: “Takao”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਓਸੀਅੰਗ”
- Persian: “تاکائو”
- Portuguese: “Takao”
- Pushto: “تاکاو”
- Russian: “Гаосюн”
- Slovak: “Kao-siung”
- Somali: “Takao”
- Spanish: “Takao”
- Swahili: “Takao”
- Tajik: “Такао”
- Tatar: “Такао”
- Thai: “เกาสง”
- Tibetan: “ཀའོ་ཞུང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Uighur: “Gawshyung”
- Uzbek: “Takao”
- Vietnamese: “Cao Hùng”
- Wu Chinese: “高雄市”
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