Baisha
Baisha Township is a rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan. It is located to the north of Penghu Main Island and linked to Siyu Island by the Penghu Trans-Oceanic Bridge, which at 2.5 km long is the longest of its kind in east Asia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,800 residents
- Description: A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Baisha Siang”, “Baisha Township”, “Baisha Xiang”, “Baisha, Penghu”, “Hakusa”, “Pai-sha”, “Pai-sha Hsiang”, “Paisha”, “Pe̍h-soa”, and “Pe̍h-sua”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penghu Aquarium and Chitou Visitor Center.
Penghu Aquarium
Public aquarium
The Penghu Aquarium is a public aquarium in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.
Chitou Visitor Center
Tourism office
Photo: Boattoad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chitou Visitor Center is a tourism office.
Houliao Weiling Temple
Place of worship
Photo: 雲角, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Houliao Weiling Temple is a place of worship.
Baisha
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Penghu, Taiwan Province, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.6665° or 23° 39′ 59″ northLongitude
119.5987° or 119° 35′ 55″ eastPopulation
9,800Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
7PMXMH8X+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2376136707OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1671126Wikidata ID
Q712753
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Baisha” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Pe̍h-soa-hiong”
- Chinese: “北山嶼”
- Chinese: “白沙”
- Chinese: “白沙乡”
- Chinese: “白沙鄉”
- Chinese: “頂山”
- French: “Baisha”
- German: “Baisha”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pha̍k-sâ-hiông”
- Hebrew: “באישה”
- Japanese: “白沙”
- Japanese: “白沙郷”
- Korean: “바이사 향”
- Korean: “바이사향”
- Ladin: “Baisha”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h-soa-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h-soa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h-sua-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h-sua”
- Polish: “Baisha”
- Russian: “Байша”
- Vietnamese: “Bạch Sa, Bành Hồ”
- Vietnamese: “Bạch Sa”
- Yue Chinese: “白沙鄉”
- “北山嶼”
- “白沙”
- “白沙鄉”
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