Hsinchu County
Hsinchu is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; with a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the county seat, where the government office and county office is located.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Chupei and Zhudong.
Chupei
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Zhubei is a city in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is one of the country's fastest-growing settlements, with a population gain of 51,000 between 2010 and 2019, the highest of any township/city or district.
Zhudong
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Zhudong is a township of 96,000 people near Hsinchu City in Taiwan. It's quite a dingy run-down place, but has a nice view of the mountains and a friendly Taiwanese feel.
Beipu
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Beipu Township is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Beipu is well known in Taiwan as a center of Hakka culture, especially for production of dongfang meiren tea and its special Hakkanese blends of tea and nuts called lei cha.
Hsinchu County
- Type: County with 589,000 residents
- Description: county in Taiwan
- Also known as: “Hsin-chu”, “Hsin-chu Hsien”, “Sin-tek County”, “Sîn-tsuk County”, “Sinjhu Sian”, and “Xinzhu Xian”
- Neighbors: Hsinchu, Miaoli County, Taichung, and Taoyuan
- Categories: county of Taiwan, geographic location, and locality
- Location: Taiwan Province, Northern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
24.8267° or 24° 49′ 36″ northLongitude of center
121.0128° or 121° 0′ 46″ eastPopulation
589,000Elevation
890 metres (2,920 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655777OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zhuang—“Hsinchu County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أقليم سين شو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة هسينشو”
- Armenian: “Սինժու շրջան”
- Asturian: “Condau Hsinchu”
- Basque: “Hsinchu konderria”
- Bengali: “হেসিনচু কাউন্টি”
- Catalan: “Comarca de Xintxu”
- Cebuano: “Hsinchu (lalawigan sa Republika sa Tsina, lat 24,67, long 121,16)”
- Cebuano: “Hsinchu”
- Chinese: “Sin-tek-koān”
- Chinese: “Xīnzhú Xiàn”
- Chinese: “新竹”
- Chinese: “新竹县”
- Chinese: “新竹縣”
- Chinese: “竹縣”
- Czech: “okres Sin-ču”
- Czech: “Okres Sin-ču”
- Danish: “Hsinchu County”
- Dutch: “Hsinchu (xian)”
- Dutch: “Hsinchu County”
- Dutch: “Hsinchu”
- Dutch: “Sinjhú”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة هسينشو”
- Finnish: “Hsinchun piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Hsinchu”
- French: “Comté de Hsinchu”
- German: “Landkreis Hsinchu”
- German: “Landkreis Xinzhu”
- German: “TW-HSQ”
- Greek: “Χσίντσου”
- Gujarati: “સિન્ચુ કાઉન્ટી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sîn-chuk-yen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sîn-tsuk-yen”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sîn-tsuk”
- Hakka Chinese: “新竹縣”
- Hindi: “सिंचू काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Hsinchu”
- Italian: “Contea di Hsinchu”
- Japanese: “新竹県”
- Kannada: “ಹಿನ್ಚು ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “신주 현”
- Korean: “신주현”
- Korean: “신죽현”
- Ladin: “Contea de Hsinchu”
- Latvian: “Sjiņdžu apriņķis”
- Literary Chinese: “新竹縣”
- Lithuanian: “Sindžu apskritis”
- Malay: “Hsinchu County”
- Malayalam: “ഹ്സിഞ്ചു കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “सिंचू काउंटी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sĭng-dé̤ṳk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sin-tek-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sin-tek”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sin-tik-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sin-tik”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tek-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tik-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “新竹”
- Min Nan Chinese: “新竹縣”
- Min Nan Chinese: “竹縣”
- Mongolian: “Шиньжү тойрог”
- Mongolian: “Шиньжү шянь”
- Northern Frisian: “Hsinchu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hsinchu Fylke”
- Persian: “شهرستان هسینچو”
- Polish: “Xinzhu”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Hsinchu”
- Russian: “Синьчжу”
- Russian: “уезд Синьчжу”
- Russian: “Уезд Синьчжу”
- Sinhala: “සින්චු ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Hsinču”
- Spanish: “Condado de Hsinchu”
- Swedish: “Hsinchu (Län)”
- Swedish: “Hsinchu”
- Tamil: “ஹசிஞ்சு கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “హిసించు కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “ซินจู๋”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลซินจู๋”
- Turkish: “Hsinchu County”
- Turkish: “Hsinchu ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Hsinchu”
- Ukrainian: “повіт Синьчжу”
- Ukrainian: “Синьчжу (повіт)”
- Ukrainian: “Синьчжу”
- Urdu: “ہسینچو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Huyện Tân Trúc”
- Vietnamese: “Tân Trúc”
- Welsh: “Sir Hsinchu”
- Yue Chinese: “新竹縣”
- Zhuang: “Sinhcuz (yen)”
- Zhuang: “Sinhcuz”
- “新竹”
- “新竹縣”
- “竹縣”
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