Hualien County
Hualien is a county on the east coast of Taiwan. It is Taiwan's largest county by area, yet due to its mountainous terrain, has one of the lowest populations in the country.
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Hualien County
- Type: County with 319,000 residents
- Description: County of Taiwan Province
- Also known as: “comarca de Hualien”, “comté d’Hualien”, “Fâ-lièn County”, “Hoa-liân”, “Hoa-liân County”, “Hua-lian”, “Hua-liân”, “Hua-lien”, “Hua-lien Hsien”, “Hualian County”, “Hualian Sian”, “Hualian xian”, “Hualian Xian”, “Hualien (xian)”, “Hualien ilçesi”, “ฮวาเหลียน คันทรี่”, “洄瀾”, “花莲”, and “花蓮”
- Neighbors: Kaohsiung, Nantou County, Taichung, Taitung County, and Yilan County
- Categories: county of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Taiwan, Eastern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
23.9913° or 23° 59′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
121.6197° or 121° 37′ 11″ east
Population
319,000
Elevation
1,296 metres (4,252 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hualien County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوالين”
- Armenian: “Հուալյան շրջան”
- Asturian: “Condau Hualien”
- Basque: “Hualien konderria”
- Belarusian: “Хуалянь”
- Bengali: “হুয়ালিয়েন কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Хуалян (графство)”
- Bulgarian: “Хуалян”
- Catalan: “Comarca de Hualien”
- Catalan: “comtat de Hualien”
- Cebuano: “Hualien (lalawigan sa Republika sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Hualien”
- Chinese: “Huɑ̄liɑ́n Xiɑ̀n”
- Chinese: “花莲县”
- Chinese: “花蓮縣”
- Czech: “okres Chua-lien”
- Czech: “Okres Chua-lien”
- Danish: “Hualien County”
- Dutch: “Hualien”
- Finnish: “Hualienin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Hualien”
- French: “Comté de Hualien”
- German: “Landkreis Hualien”
- Greek: “Χουάλιεν”
- Gujarati: “હુઆલિયન કાઉન્ટી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fâ-lièn-yen”
- Hebrew: “חוואליין (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “חוואליין”
- Hindi: “हुअलिएन काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Hualien”
- Italian: “Contea di Hualien”
- Japanese: “花蓮県”
- Kannada: “ಹುಲ್ಲಿಯನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “화롄 현”
- Korean: “화롄현”
- Latvian: “Hualiaņas apriņķis”
- Literary Chinese: “花蓮縣”
- Lithuanian: “Hualiano apskritis”
- Malay: “Hualien County”
- Malayalam: “ഹുവാലിയെൻ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “हुअलिएन काउंटी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Huă-lièng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hoa-liân-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hua-liân-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “花蓮縣”
- Mongolian: “Хуалянь”
- Northern Frisian: “Hualien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hualien Fylke”
- Paiwan: “kalinku king”
- Paiwan: “Kalinku king”
- Persian: “هوالاین”
- Polish: “Hualian”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Hualien”
- Russian: “уезд Хуалянь”
- Russian: “Хуалянь”
- Sakizaya: “Nabakuan a kuwan”
- Sinhala: “හුආලියන් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Hualien”
- Spanish: “Condado de Hualien”
- Swedish: “Hualien (län)”
- Swedish: “Hualien”
- Tajik: “воҳиди Ҳуалиен”
- Tamil: “ஹப்களின் கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “హువాలియెన్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลฮวาเหลียน”
- Thai: “ฮวาเหลียน”
- Turkish: “Hualien”
- Ukrainian: “Хуалянь”
- Urdu: “ہوالیئن کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Hoa Liên”
- Welsh: “Sir Hualien”
- Yue Chinese: “花蓮縣”
- “花蓮縣”
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