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Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung, with 2.73 million inhabitants in October 2023, is the third most populated city in after and . It is located in the south of the island on the west coast.
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  • Type: City with 2,780,000 residents
  • Description: city in southern Taiwan
  • Also known as: “City of Kaohsiung”, “Gaosyong”, “Gaosyongshih”, “Gaoxiong”, “Gaoxiongshi”, “Kao-hsiung-shih”, “Kaohsiung City”, “Ta-kaô”, “Tá-káu”, “Takaô”, “Takow”, “TW-KHH”, and “高雄巿”
  • Historically known as: “Takao”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kao-hsiung Station and Lizihnei.

Railway station
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Kaohsiung Main Station is a railway and metro station in , Kaohsiung, served by the Taiwan Railway and Kaohsiung Rapid Transit. It is one of four special class stations, the highest class with the most services.

Railway station
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station is a station on the Circular light rail line of Kaohsiung Metro. It is located in , Kaohsiung, .

Library
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The is the central library of Kaohsiung, . It is the main library of the Kaohsiung Public Library System and opened in November 2014. The building is located in Xinguang Road, opposite to the Tuntex Sky Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sanmin District and Lingya District.

Suburb
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is a district of Kaohsiung, .

Suburb
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is a district of Kaohsiung, . The and the Kaohsiung City Hall are located here. is the administrative center of Kaohsiung City along with .

Suburb
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(Chinese: 前鎭區; Hanyu Pinyin: qiánzhèn qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Ciánjhèn Cyu; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien2-chên4 Ch'ü and is subdivided into 59 villages.

Kaohsiung

Latitude
22.6203° or 22° 37′ 13″ north
Longitude
120.312° or 120° 18′ 43″ east
Population
2,780,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
KHH
United Nations Location Code
TW KHH
Open location code
7QJ2J8C6+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655691
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1673820
Wiki­data ID
Q181557
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Kaohsiung” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaohsiung”
  • Arabic: “كاوهسيونغ”
  • Armenian: “Գաոսյուն”
  • Asturian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Atayal: “Takaw Si”
  • Balinese: “Kota Kaohsiung”
  • Basque: “Kaohsiung”
  • Belarusian: “Гаасюн”
  • Bengali: “কাউশিউং”
  • Bengali: “কোসিয়োং শহর”
  • Bulgarian: “Гаосюн”
  • Burmese: “ကောင်းရှုံမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kaohsiung”
  • Cebuano: “Kaohsiung (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kaohsiung (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kaohsiung”
  • Chechen: “Гаосюн”
  • Chinese: “Gāoxióng Shì”
  • Chinese: “Ko-hiông-chhī”
  • Chinese: “打狗”
  • Chinese: “打鼓”
  • Chinese: “港都”
  • Chinese: “高”
  • Chinese: “高市”
  • Chinese: “高雄”
  • Chinese: “高雄市”
  • Croatian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Czech: “Gaoxiong”
  • Czech: “Kao-siung”
  • Czech: “Kaohsiung”
  • Danish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Dinka: “Kaohthiung”
  • Dutch: “Gaoxiong”
  • Dutch: “Kao-hsiung”
  • Dutch: “Kaohsiung”
  • Dutch: “Kaosiung”
  • Dutch: “Kau-sjioeng”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاوهسيونج”
  • Esperanto: “Kaosjungo”
  • Finnish: “Kaohsiung”
  • French: “Kaohsiung City”
  • French: “Kaohsiung”
  • French: “Kaoshiung”
  • Galician: “Kaohsiung”
  • Gan Chinese: “高雄”
  • Gan Chinese: “高雄市”
  • Georgian: “გაოსიუნი”
  • Georgian: “კაოჰსიუნგი”
  • German: “Gaoxiong”
  • German: “Kaohsiung”
  • German: “Kaoshiung”
  • German: “TW-KHH”
  • Greek: “Καοσιούνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “કાઊશુંગ શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “કાઓશિયાંગ શહેર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kô-hiùng-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kô-hiùng”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kô-kiùng-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Kaohsiung”
  • Hebrew: “גאושיונג”
  • Hindi: “कओसिउंग शहर”
  • Hindi: “काऊशुंग सिटी”
  • Hindi: “काऊशुंग”
  • Hindi: “कौश्यींग”
  • Hungarian: “Kaohsziung”
  • Icelandic: “Kaohsiung”
  • Indonesian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Kaohsiung”
  • Interlingue: “Kaohsiung”
  • Irish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Italian: “Gāoxióng”
  • Italian: “Kao-hsiung”
  • Italian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Japanese: “カォシュン”
  • Japanese: “カオシュン”
  • Japanese: “たかお”
  • Japanese: “たかおし”
  • Japanese: “たかを”
  • Japanese: “打狗”
  • Japanese: “港都”
  • Japanese: “高雄”
  • Japanese: “高雄市”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಒಹ್ಸ್ಯುಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾವೊಹ್ಸುಂಗ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kashmiri: “کاؤسیٛونٛگ”
  • Khmer: “កៅស្យុង”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаосун”
  • Korean: “가오슝 시”
  • Korean: “가오슝”
  • Korean: “가오슝시”
  • Korean: “고웅”
  • Korean: “고웅시”
  • Korean: “카오슝 시”
  • Korean: “카오슝”
  • Ladin: “Kaohsiung”
  • Latin: “Kaohsiung”
  • Latvian: “Gaosjuna”
  • Latvian: “Gaosjunas speciālā municipalitāte”
  • Literary Chinese: “高雄市”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaosiongas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaosiunas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaosiungas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaoxiong”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Macedonian: “Гаосјунг”
  • Malagasy: “Kaohsiung”
  • Malay: “Kaohsiung”
  • Malayalam: “കൗഷ്യിംഗ്”
  • Maltese: “Kaohsiung”
  • Marathi: “काऊशुंग शहर”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gŏ̤-hṳ̀ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Káng-too”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ko-hiông Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ko-hiông-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ko-hiông-tshī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kohiongchhi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tá-káu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Táⁿ-káu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “高雄市”
  • Mingrelian: “გაოსიუნი”
  • Mongolian: “Гаошюн”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaoxiung”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaohsiung”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaoxiung”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaohsiung”
  • Norwegian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gaoxiong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kaohsiung”
  • Ossetian: “Гаосюн”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਓਸੀਅੰਗ”
  • Persian: “کائوهسیونگ”
  • Persian: “کاوهسیونگ”
  • Polish: “Gaoxiong”
  • Polish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Polish: “Kaosiung”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Kaohsiung”
  • Portuguese: “Gaoxiong”
  • Portuguese: “Kaohsiung”
  • Portuguese: “Takao”
  • Portuguese: “TW-KHH”
  • Quechua: “Kau-hiyun”
  • Romanian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Russian: “Гаосюн”
  • Russian: “Каосюн”
  • Sakizaya: “Takaw”
  • Scots: “Kaohsiung”
  • Serbian: “Каошанг”
  • Silesian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Sinhala: “කාඕසියුන්ග් නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “කොසියුන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Kao-siung”
  • Slovak: “Kaohsiung”
  • Slovenian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Slovenian: “Kaošiung”
  • Somali: “Kaohsiung”
  • Spanish: “Gaoxiong”
  • Spanish: “Kao hiong”
  • Spanish: “Kao-hiong”
  • Spanish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Spanish: “Takau”
  • Swahili: “Kaohsiung”
  • Swedish: “Gaoxiong”
  • Swedish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Tagalog: “Kaohsiung”
  • Tamil: “கவஹ்ஸியுங் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “கோஷிங் நகரம்”
  • Telugu: “కావోోసియంగ్ నగరం”
  • Telugu: “కావోోసియంగ్ సిటీ”
  • Thai: “เกาสง”
  • Thai: “เกาสยง”
  • Thai: “เกาสฺยง”
  • Tibetan: “ཀའོ་ཞུང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Turkish: “Kaohsiung”
  • Uighur: “Gawshyung”
  • Uighur: “گاۋشيۇڭ”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаосюн”
  • Urdu: “کائوسیونگ شہر”
  • Venetian: “Kaohsiung”
  • Vietnamese: “Cao Hùng”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaohsiung”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaohsiung”
  • Welsh: “Kaohsiung”
  • Wu Chinese: “打狗”
  • Wu Chinese: “打鼓”
  • Wu Chinese: “港都”
  • Wu Chinese: “高雄”
  • Wu Chinese: “高雄市”
  • Yue Chinese: “高雄市”
  • Zhuang: “Gauhyungz”
  • “高雄市”

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