Chiayi

Chiayi, also spelled Jiayi, is the main city of the Chiayi region, southern . It is surrounded by .
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  • Type: City with 270,000 residents
  • Description: provincial city in Southern Taiwan
  • Also known as: Chia-i”, “Chia-i-hsien”, “Chia-i-shih”, “Chiayi City”, “Jiayi Shih”, and “Kiayi
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chia-i Station and Chiayi Municipal Museum.

Railway station
Chiayi is a railway station in Chiayi, Taiwan, served by Taiwan Railway and Alishan Forest Railway.

Stadium
Photo: Joe Wu, CC BY 2.0.
Chiayi Municipal Baseball Stadium is a multi-use in Chiayi City, . It is currently used for baseball games and was the home field for the Chinatrust Whales from 1998 to 2003.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East District and West District.

Suburb
is a district in east Chiayi City, . The district is the city seat of Chiayi City.

Suburb
is a district in west Chiayi City, .

Chiayi

Latitude
23.4811° or 23° 28′ 52″ north
Longitude
120.4535° or 120° 27′ 13″ east
Population
270,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TW CYI
Open location code
7QM2FFJ3+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655922
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1678836
Wiki­data ID
Q249995
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chiayi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: شيا يي
  • Basque: Chiayi
  • Bengali: চৈয়াই শহর
  • Bengali: সিয়াই শহর
  • Catalan: Chiayi
  • Catalan: Txiayi
  • Cebuano: Chiayi (lalawigan sa Republika sa Tsina, lat 23,48, long 120,45)
  • Cebuano: Chiayi
  • Chinese: Jiāyì Shì
  • Chinese: Ka-gī-chhī
  • Chinese: 嘉义市
  • Chinese: 嘉義
  • Chinese: 嘉義市
  • Czech: Ťia-i
  • Danish: Chiayi City
  • Danish: Chiayi
  • Dutch: Chiayi
  • Egyptian Arabic: شيا يى
  • Esperanto: Ĉjaji
  • Finnish: Chiayi City
  • Finnish: Chiayi
  • French: Chiayi
  • German: Chiayi
  • German: Jiayi Shi
  • Greek: Τσιαγί
  • Greek: Τσιάγι
  • Gujarati: ચિઆઇ શહેર
  • Gujarati: ચિઆયી શહેર
  • Hakka Chinese: Kâ-ngi-sṳ
  • Hebrew: ג’יאיי
  • Hindi: चियाई सिटी
  • Hindi: छिअई सिटी
  • Hungarian: Csiaji
  • Indonesian: Kota Chiayi
  • Italian: Chiayi
  • Japanese: 嘉義市
  • Kannada: ಚಿಯಾಯಿ ನಗರ
  • Kannada: ಚಿಯಾಯಿ
  • Kashmiri: چِیائی شہر
  • Korean: 자이시
  • Latvian: Dzjaji
  • Literary Chinese: 嘉義市
  • Lithuanian: Dziaji
  • Malay: Chiayi City
  • Malay: Chiayi
  • Marathi: चिआई शहर
  • Marathi: चिआय शहर
  • Min Dong Chinese: Gă-ngiê
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ka-gī-chhī
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ka-gī-tshī
  • Min Nan Chinese: 嘉義市
  • Mongolian: Жяи
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Chiayi
  • Norwegian: Chiayi
  • Persian: چیایای
  • Persian: چیایی
  • Polish: Jiayi
  • Portuguese: Chiayi
  • Russian: Цзяи
  • Sakizaya: Cya-yi‘ a tuse
  • Sinhala: චියායි නගරය
  • Sinhala: චියායි සිටි
  • Spanish: Chiayi
  • Spanish: Jiayi
  • Swedish: Jiayi
  • Tamil: சியாஇ நகரம்
  • Tamil: சியாயி நகரம்
  • Telugu: చియాంయి నగరం
  • Telugu: చియాంయి సిటీ
  • Thai: เจียอี้
  • Thai: นครเจียอี้
  • Turkish: Chiayi
  • Ukrainian: Цзяї
  • Urdu: چیایی شہر
  • Vietnamese: Gia Nghĩa
  • Waray (Philippines): Chiayi
  • Welsh: Chiayi City
  • Yue Chinese: 嘉義市
  • 嘉義市

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