Orchid Island
Orchid Island, known as Pongso no Tao by Tao people, the indigenous inhabitants, is a 45 km2 volcanic island located off the southeastern coast of Taiwan.Photo: Kailing3, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,080 residents
- Description: volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean part of Taiwan
- Also known as: “Botel Tobago”, “Butrulr”, “Butud”, “Butul”, “Futud”, “Hongtou Yu”, “Hungtou Yu”, “Koto island”, “Kōtō sho”, “Lan-yü”, “Lan-yü Hsiang”, “Lanyu”, “Lanyu Siang”, “Lanyu Township”, “Lanyu Xiang”, “Orchid Island, Taitung”, “Pangkalkalan”, and “Pongso no Tao”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lan-yü Airport and Lanyu Power Plant.
Lan-yü Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: A-giâu, Public domain.
The Lanyu Airport is an airport on Orchid Island, Taitung County, Taiwan. The airport does not support night time flying except for emergency medical services flights.
Lanyu Power Plant
Power station
The Lanyu Power Plant is a fuel-fired power plant in Yuren Village, Orchid Island, Taitung County, Taiwan. It is the only power plant on Orchid Island.
Orchid Island
- Categories: island and locality
- Location: Taitung County, Taiwan, Eastern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.0512° or 22° 3′ 4″ northLongitude
121.547° or 121° 32′ 49″ eastPopulation
5,080Elevation
485 metres (1,591 feet)Open location code
7QJ33G2W+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 3429497101OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1673091Wikidata ID
Q701647
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Yue Chinese—“Orchid Island” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Futud”
- Arabic: “جزيرة الأوركيد”
- Atayal: “Lang-syo go”
- Azerbaijani: “Lanyu adası”
- Catalan: “Lanyu”
- Cebuano: “Lan Yu”
- Central Bikol: “Isla nin Orchid”
- Chinese: “Lân-sū”
- Chinese: “兰屿”
- Chinese: “兰屿乡”
- Chinese: “台灣蘭嶼”
- Chinese: “紅豆嶼”
- Chinese: “紅頭嶼”
- Chinese: “蘭嶼”
- Chinese: “蘭嶼鄉”
- Chinese: “蘭嶼鄕”
- Czech: “Orchidejový ostrov”
- Dutch: “Orchid Island”
- Esperanto: “Orkidinsulo”
- Finnish: “Lanyu”
- French: “Archipel des Orchidées”
- French: “Île des Orchidées”
- French: “L’île des orchidées”
- French: “lanyu”
- French: “Lanyu”
- German: “Hóngtóu Yǔ”
- German: “Kōtō-sho”
- German: “Lan Yu”
- German: “Lanyu”
- German: “Lányǔ”
- German: “Orchideeninsel”
- Hakka Chinese: “Làn-yí-hiông”
- Hakka Chinese: “Làn-yí”
- Hebrew: “אי אורכידאה (סחלב)”
- Icelandic: “Bútúrú”
- Icelandic: “Lanyu”
- Iloko: “Isla ti Orkidia”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Lanyu”
- Italian: “Isola delle Orchidee”
- Italian: “Isola Orchidea”
- Italian: “Lan-Yu”
- Italian: “Lanyu”
- Italian: “Orchid Island”
- Italian: “Orchid”
- Japanese: “Kōtō sho”
- Japanese: “こうとうしょ”
- Japanese: “紅頭嶼”
- Japanese: “蘭嶼”
- Japanese: “蘭嶼島”
- Japanese: “蘭嶼郷”
- Korean: “란위섬”
- Korean: “란위향”
- Ladin: “Ijula de la Orchidées”
- Lithuanian: “Lan Ju”
- Macedonian: “Орхидејски Остров”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Âng-tāu-sū”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Âng-thâu-sū”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lân-sū-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lân-sū”
- Mongolian: “Лань”
- Polish: “Lan Yu”
- Portuguese: “Ilha das Orquídeas”
- Russian: “Лансюй”
- Russian: “Ланьсюй”
- Russian: “Ланьюй”
- Russian: “Хунтоусюй”
- Saisiyat: “Yamizok”
- Sakizaya: “Butud”
- Sakizaya: “Lanyu”
- Spanish: “Isla de las Orquídeas”
- Spanish: “Isla Orquidea”
- Spanish: “Isla Orquídea”
- Spanish: “Lanyu”
- Swedish: “Lanyu”
- Turkish: “Orkide Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Ланьюй”
- Ukrainian: “Острів орхідей”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ اورکڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Lan”
- Vietnamese: “Lan Tự”
- Wu Chinese: “兰屿”
- Yue Chinese: “蘭嶼”
- Yue Chinese: “蘭嶼鄉”
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