Changhua
Changhua, officially known as Changhua City, is a county-administered city and the county seat of Changhua County in Taiwan. For many centuries the site was home to a settlement of Babuza people, a coastal tribe of Taiwanese aborigines.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 235,000 residents
- Description: A county-administered city in Changhua County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Chang Hwa”, “Chang-hua”, “Chang-hua Nan-pu”, “Chang-hua North”, “Chang-hua Pei-pu”, “Chang-hua-hsien”, “Chang-hua-shih”, “Chang-hua-south”, “Changhua City”, “Janghua”, “Janghwa”, “Jhanghua”, and “Zhanghua”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Changhua railway station and Changhua Arts Hall.
Changhua railway station
Railway station
Photo: 鐵路1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Changhua is a railway station in Changhua City, Changhua County, 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.
Changhua Arts Hall
Arts center
Photo: Mingwangx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Changhua Arts Hall is an art gallery in Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan.
Changhua Roundhouse
Changhua Roundhouse is a railway roundhouse operated by Taiwan Railway in Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan. The roundhouse is located directly north of Changhua railway station. Built in 1922, it is the only surviving railway roundhouse in Taiwan.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xizhou.
Xizhou
Hamlet
Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY 2.0.
Xizhou Township is a rural township in Changhua County, Taiwan. 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 Erlin and Fangyuan. Xizhou is situated 4 km north of Changhua.
Changhua
- Categories: county-administered city and locality
- Location: Zhanghua City, Changhua County, Taiwan Province, Central Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.0808° or 24° 4′ 51″ northLongitude
120.5423° or 120° 32′ 32″ eastPopulation
235,000Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)United Nations Location Code
TW CHWOpen location code
7QP23GJR+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 60655648OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Changhua” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Changhua City”
- Catalan: “Changhua”
- Catalan: “Txanghua”
- Catalan: “Zhanghua”
- Chinese: “Chiong-hòa-chhī”
- Chinese: “Zhānghuà Shì”
- Chinese: “半線”
- Chinese: “彰化”
- Chinese: “彰化市”
- Czech: “Čang-chua”
- Czech: “Zhanghua”
- Dutch: “Changhua”
- Dutch: “Jhanghua”
- Dutch: “Jhanghuà”
- Esperanto: “Ĉanghua”
- Finnish: “Changhua”
- French: “Changhua”
- German: “Changhua”
- German: “Zhanghua”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chông-fa-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Changhua City”
- Italian: “Changhua”
- Japanese: “彰化市”
- Korean: “장화시”
- Ladin: “Changhua”
- Literary Chinese: “彰化市”
- Lithuanian: “Džanghua”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chiong-hoà-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Changhua”
- Norwegian: “Changhua”
- Persian: “جانگوآ”
- Persian: “چانگوا”
- Polish: “Zhanghua”
- Portuguese: “Changhua”
- Russian: “Чжанхуа”
- Silesian: “Zhanghua”
- Slovenian: “Čanghua”
- Slovenian: “Changhua”
- Spanish: “Changhua”
- Thai: “จังฮว่า”
- Thai: “จางฮว่า”
- Turkish: “Changhua”
- Ukrainian: “Чжанхуа”
- Urdu: “چانگہوا شہر”
- Vietnamese: “Chương Hóa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Changhua”
- Yue Chinese: “彰化市”
- “彰化市”
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