Caotun
Caotun, or Tsaotun, is an urban township in the northwest of Nantou County. It is the largest township in Taiwan by population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Shxpeng, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taiwan Times Village and National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute.
Taiwan Times Village
Photo: SSR2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Taiwan Times Village is a museum in Caotun Township, Nantou County, Taiwan.
National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute
Arts center
Photo: Fcuk1203, CC BY-SA 3.0.
National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute is an arts center.
Grass Shoe Pier Humanities Sightseeing Night Market
Marketplace
Photo: SSR2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Caotun Night Market or Caoxiedun Tourism Night Market is a night market in Caotun Township, Nantou County, Taiwan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhongxing New Village.
Zhongxing New Village
Village
Photo: Vegafish, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Zhongxing New Village, sometimes rendered as Chunghsing New Village is an urban village located in Nantou City, Nantou County, Taiwan and was the seat of government of Taiwan Province until the abolition of the Taiwan Provincial Government in 2018.
Caotun
- Categories: urban township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Nantou County, Taiwan Province, Central Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.9738° or 23° 58′ 26″ northLongitude
120.6803° or 120° 40′ 49″ eastPopulation
98,400Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)Open location code
7QM2XMFJ+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655703OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1666855Wikidata ID
Q708408
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Caotun” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Caotun Zhen”
- Chinese: “Chháu-tūn-tìn”
- Chinese: “草屯”
- Chinese: “草屯鎮”
- Chinese: “草屯镇”
- Chinese: “草鞋墩”
- German: “Caotun”
- Greek: “Τσαοτούν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhó-thùn-tsṳ́n”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tshó-thùn-tsṳ́n”
- Italian: “Caotun”
- Japanese: “Sōton”
- Japanese: “草屯”
- Japanese: “草屯鎮”
- Korean: “차오툰진”
- Ladin: “Caotun”
- Literary Chinese: “草屯鎮”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chháu-ê-tūn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chháu-tūn-tìn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chháu-tūn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tsháu-ê-tun”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tsháu-tùn”
- Paiwan: “cawtun”
- Paiwan: “Chháu-tùn-tìn”
- Polish: “Caotun”
- Russian: “Цаотунь”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Caotun”
- Ukrainian: “Каотун”
- Vietnamese: “Thảo Đồn, Nam Đầu”
- Vietnamese: “Thảo Đồn”
- Yue Chinese: “草屯”
- Yue Chinese: “草屯鎮”
- “草屯鎮”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Caotun”. Photo: Shxpeng, CC BY-SA 3.0.