Lieyu
Lieyu Township is a rural township in Kinmen County, Republic of China. It consists mainly of three islands located to the west of Greater Kinmen and immediately to the east of Xiamen of the People's Republic of China: Lesser Kinmen, Dadan, and Erdan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 12,600 residents
- Description: A rural township in Kinmen County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Liehyu”, “Lieyu Township”, and “Lyeyu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bada Tower and Lieyu Township Culture Museum.
Bada Tower
Monument
Photo: BreakdownDiode, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bada Tower is a tower in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
Lieyu Township Culture Museum
Building
Photo: Viy4092, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Lieyu Township Culture Museum is a museum in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Taiwan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shi Islet and Jincheng.
Shi Islet
Locality
Shi Islet is an islet located northwest of Lesser Kinmen in Lieyu Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. Military personnel are stationed on Shi Islet. Shi Islet is situated 3½ km northwest of Lieyu.
Jincheng
Town
Jincheng Township is an urban township on the southwestern corner of the island of Kinmen. It is the county seat of Kinmen County, Fuchien Province. Jincheng was the seat of the ROC's Fukien Province from 1949–1956 and 1996–2018. Jincheng is situated 8 km east of Lieyu.
Zhushan Village
Hamlet
Photo: 潘同正, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zhushan is a village in Zhusha urban village of Jincheng Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. It is also the home of the Xue clan in Kinmen. Zhushan Village is situated 8 km east of Lieyu.
Lieyu
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Shanglin Village, Lieyu Township, Kinmen, 福建省, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.42936° or 24° 25′ 46″ northLongitude
118.24465° or 118° 14′ 41″ eastPopulation
12,600Open location code
7PPWC6HV+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 60655848OpenStreetMap feature
place=townWikidata ID
Q708080
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Lieyu” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Lia̍t-sū-hiong”
- Chinese: “Lièyǔ xiāng”
- Chinese: “小金門”
- Chinese: “小金門島”
- Chinese: “烈屿乡”
- Chinese: “烈嶼”
- Chinese: “烈嶼鄉”
- Czech: “Lie-jü”
- French: “Lieyu”
- German: “Lieyu”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lie̍t-yí-hiông”
- Hebrew: “לייו”
- Japanese: “烈嶼”
- Japanese: “烈嶼郷”
- Korean: “례위향”
- Ladin: “Lieyu”
- Literary Chinese: “烈嶼”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lia̍t-sū-hiong”
- Persian: “لیایو”
- Spanish: “Pequeña Kinmen”
- Spanish: “Pequeña Quemoy”
- Vietnamese: “Liệt Tự, Kim Môn”
- Vietnamese: “Liệt Tự”
- Yue Chinese: “小金門”
- Yue Chinese: “烈嶼”
- Yue Chinese: “烈嶼鄉”
- “烈嶼鄉”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lieyu Township Office and 烈嶼鄉圖書館.
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