Beigan
Beigan Township, is an insular rural township in Lienchiang County, Taiwan. The township is in the East China Sea off the coast of Fujian Province, China near Fuzhou.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,340 residents
- Description: A rural township in Lienchiang County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Báe̤k-găng”, “Bah-gang”, “Beigan Township”, “Peikan”, and “Póyk-kang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matsu Beigan Airport and Daqiu Island.
Matsu Beigan Airport
Aerodrome
Matsu Beigan Airport is one of the airports in Matsu Islands, Lienchiang County, Fukien Province, Taiwan. It also serves as a heliport and located on Beigan Island. It is served by Uni Air ATR 72-600 with scheduled flights to Taipei Songshan Airport.
Daqiu Island
Island
Daqiu Island is an island in the East China Sea, part of Beigan Township, Lienchiang County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. The island has been uninhabited; it is open to the public.
Beigan
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Matsu, 福建省, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.2251° or 26° 13′ 30″ northLongitude
119.9973° or 119° 59′ 50″ eastPopulation
2,340Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)Open location code
7PRX6XGW+2WOpenStreetMap ID
node 60655854OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
11696318Wikidata ID
Q708075
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Beigan” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “běigān xiāng”
- Chinese: “Pak-kan-hiong”
- Chinese: “下竿塘”
- Chinese: “北竿”
- Chinese: “北竿塘”
- Chinese: “北竿乡”
- Chinese: “北竿鄉”
- Chinese: “長岐山”
- Chinese: “長岐島”
- Chinese: “長嶼山”
- Czech: “Pej-kan”
- Dutch: “Beigan”
- French: “Beigan”
- German: “Beigan”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pet-kôn-hiông”
- Hebrew: “בייגן”
- Italian: “Beigan”
- Japanese: “北竿”
- Japanese: “北竿郷”
- Korean: “베이간향”
- Ladin: “Beigan”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k-găng-dō̤”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k-găng-hiŏng”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Póyk-kang-hyong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-kan-hiong”
- Persian: “بیجانگ”
- Pu-Xian Chinese: “Bah-gang-hio̤ng”
- Spanish: “Beigan”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Can, Mã Tổ”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Can”
- Yue Chinese: “北竿鄉”
- “北竿鄉”
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