Jiufen
Jiufen or Jioufen, historically spelled Chiufen, is a small town in the Ruifang District of New Taipei City, in the hills overlooking the northeast coast of Taiwan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: kota, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: TianyinLee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 3,100 residents
- Description: mountain area in Ruifang District near Keelung, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Chiu-fen”, “Chiufen”, and “Jioufen”
Photo: YSFD, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ōgon Shrine and Gold Museum.
Ōgon Shrine
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Koika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ōgon Shrine also known as the Jinguashi Shinto Shrine, Gold Temple or Spirits of the Mountain Shrine is a Shinto shrine located halfway up a mountain in the Gold Ecological Park in Jinguashi, Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Gold Museum
Museum
The New Taipei City Gold Museum, formerly known as the Gold Ecological Park, is a museum of the gold mining industry in Ruifang District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Shengping Theater
Movie theater
Photo: Kwb, Public domain.
The Shengping Theater is a theater in Jiufen, Ruifang District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jinguashi.
Jinguashi
Photo: Fred Hsu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jinguashi is a village in the Ruifang District of eastern New Taipei City, Taiwan. The area became famous for its gold mines, and is today considered a potential World Heritage Site by the Taiwan Bureau of Cultural Heritage.
Jiufen
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ruifang, New Taipei, Taipei, Northern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.1117° or 25° 6′ 42″ northLongitude
121.8451° or 121° 50′ 42″ eastPopulation
3,100Elevation
287 metres (942 feet)Open location code
7QQ34R6W+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 303558350OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1677870Wikidata ID
Q31093
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jiufen” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيوفين”
- Bengali: “জিউফেন”
- Catalan: “Jiufen”
- Chinese: “Jiǔfèn”
- Chinese: “九份”
- Chinese: “九份仔”
- Dutch: “Jiufen”
- French: “Jiufen”
- German: “Jiufen”
- Indonesian: “Jiufen”
- Irish: “Jiufen”
- Italian: “Chiufen”
- Italian: “Jioufen”
- Italian: “Jiufen”
- Japanese: “九フン”
- Japanese: “九份”
- Korean: “주펀”
- Korean: “지우펀”
- Lithuanian: “Dziufenas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jiufen”
- Russian: “Цзюфэнь”
- Russian: “Чиуфен”
- Sakizaya: “Ciw-ben”
- Spanish: “Jiufen”
- Vietnamese: “Cửu Phần”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Jiufen”. Photo: TianyinLee, CC BY-SA 3.0.