Eastern Taiwan
Taiwan Province
Taitung County

Dawu

Dawu Township is a rural township in , . The majority inhabitants of the township are the indigenous Paiwan people.
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  • Type: Town with 6,240 residents
  • Description: A rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Dawu Township”, “Dawu, Taitung”, “Pa-lang-wei”, “Ta-wu”, and “Tawu”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guzhuang Signal and Ta-wu Station.

Railway station
Photo: billy1125, CC BY 2.0.
Guzhuang is a railway station on the South-link line located in Dawu Township, , .

Railway station
Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0.
Dawu is a railway station on the South-link line located in Dawu Township, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Daren.

Photo: Ivan Tsung-Yi Lin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Township is a mountain indigenous township in , . The main population is the Paiwan people of the Taiwanese aborigines.

Dawu

Latitude
22.3405° or 22° 20′ 26″ north
Longitude
120.8902° or 120° 53′ 25″ east
Population
6,240
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
7QJ28VRR+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655850
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1667591
Wiki­data ID
Q712988
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In Other Languages

From Amis to Yue Chinese—“Dawu” goes by many names.
  • Amis: “Dawu”
  • Atayal: “Dawu”
  • Bavarian: “Dawu”
  • Chinese: “Dà​wǔ​ Xiāng”
  • Chinese: “Tāi-bú-hiong”
  • Chinese: “大武 (臺灣)”
  • Chinese: “大武”
  • Chinese: “大武乡”
  • Chinese: “大武鄉”
  • Chinese: “巴塱衛”
  • German: “Dawu”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-vú-hiông”
  • Japanese: “大武”
  • Japanese: “大武郷”
  • Korean: “다우향”
  • Ladin: “Dawu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-bú-hiong”
  • Paiwan: “Dawu”
  • Russian: “Дау”
  • Saisiyat: “Dawu”
  • Sakizaya: “Dawu”
  • Sakizaya: “Pangwi”
  • Taroko: “Dawu”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Vũ, Đài Đông”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Vũ”
  • Yue Chinese: “大武鄉 (臺灣)”
  • “大武”
  • “大武鄉”
  • “巴塱衛”

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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 Wikipedia page “Dawu”. Photo: Eric850130, CC BY-SA 4.0.