Nantou County
Nantou County is in the Central Region of Taiwan. It is famous for its mountain scenery and is the only county in Taiwan without a coastline.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Top destinations include Sun Moon Lake and Nantou.
Sun Moon Lake
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Sun Moon Lake is a lake in Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the largest body of water in Taiwan. The area around the lake is home to the Thao people, one of Taiwan's indigenous ethnic groups.
Nantou
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Nantou City is a county-administered city located in the northwest of Nantou County, Taiwan. It lies between the Bagua Mountains and the Maoluo River and is the county seat of Nantou County.
Puli
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Puli Township is an urban township in Nantou County, Taiwan. The township is located within the Puli Basin in central Taiwan.
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Ren’ai
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Ren'ai is a township in Nantou County. The township has a population of approximately 15,000 people spread out over 1,300 km².
Caotun
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Caotun, or Tsaotun, is an urban township in the northwest of Nantou County. It is the largest township in Taiwan by population.
Jiji
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Jiji or Chichi is an urban township located in the west central portion of Nantou County, Taiwan. Jiji is the smallest of Taiwan's townships by area. The township is a popular destination on the Jiji Railway Line.
Jhushan
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Jhushan is a city of about 55,000 people in southwestern Nantou County, Taiwan.
Shuili
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Shuili is a township in Nantou County. The area has a population of approximately 20,000 spread out over 107 km2.
Nantou County
- Type: County with 480,000 residents
- Description: county in Taiwan
- Also known as: “Nan Tow Hsien”, “Nan-t’ou”, “Nan-t’ou Hsien”, “Nantou Sian”, and “Nantou Xian”
- Neighbors: Changhua County, Chiayi County, Hualien County, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Yilan County, and Yunlin County
- Categories: county of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Taiwan, Central Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
23.9024° or 23° 54′ 9″ northLongitude of center
120.6909° or 120° 41′ 27″ eastPopulation
480,000Elevation
706 metres (2,316 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655784OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Nantou County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة نانتو”
- Asturian: “Condau Nantou”
- Basque: “Nantou konderria”
- Bengali: “নান্তু কাউন্টি”
- Cebuano: “Nantou (lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Nantou”
- Chinese: “Lâm-tâu-koān”
- Chinese: “Nántóu Xiàn”
- Chinese: “南投县”
- Chinese: “南投縣”
- Czech: “okres Nan-tchou”
- Czech: “Okres Nan-tchou”
- Danish: “Nantou County”
- Dutch: “Nantou (xian)”
- Dutch: “Nantou”
- Dutch: “南投”
- Dutch: “南投縣”
- Finnish: “Nantoun piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Nantou”
- French: “Comté de Nantou”
- French: “TW-NAN”
- Gan Chinese: “南投”
- Gan Chinese: “南投縣”
- German: “Landkreis Nantou”
- German: “TW-NAN”
- Greek: “Ναντού”
- Gujarati: “નાન્તોઉ કાઉન્ટી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Nàm-thèu-yen”
- Hebrew: “מחוז נאנטו”
- Hindi: “नैनटो काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Nantou”
- Italian: “contea di Nantou”
- Italian: “Contea di Nantou”
- Japanese: “なんとうけん”
- Japanese: “南投県”
- Kannada: “ನಾಂಟೌ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “난터우 현”
- Korean: “난터우현”
- Korean: “남투현”
- Ladin: “contea de Nantou”
- Ladin: “Contea de Nantou”
- Latvian: “Naņtou apriņķis”
- Literary Chinese: “南投縣”
- Lithuanian: “Nantou apskritis”
- Malay: “Nantou County”
- Malayalam: “നാൻറ്റൗ കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “नॅनटोउ काउंटी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Nàng-dàu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-tâu-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-tâu-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-tâu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “南投”
- Min Nan Chinese: “南投縣”
- Mongolian: “Наньтоу”
- Northern Frisian: “Nantou”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nantou fylk”
- Polish: “Nantou”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Nantou”
- Russian: “Наньтоу”
- Russian: “уезд Наньтоу”
- Sinhala: “නන්ටෝඋ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Nantou”
- Slovenian: “TW-NAN”
- Spanish: “Condado de Nantou”
- Spanish: “Condado del Nantou”
- Swedish: “Nantou (län)”
- Swedish: “Nantou”
- Tamil: “நண்டோவு கவுண்டி”
- Taroko: “Jingay siang”
- Telugu: “నాంటో కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลหนานโถว”
- Thai: “หนานโถว”
- Turkish: “Nantou”
- Turkish: “南投ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Наньтоу”
- Ukrainian: “повіт Наньтоу”
- Urdu: “نانتوو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Đầu”
- Welsh: “Sir Nantou”
- Yue Chinese: “南投縣”
- “南投”
- “南投縣”
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