Penghu
Penghu, also called the Pescadores is an outlying island archipelago in the Taiwan Straits between Taiwan and China, but much closer to the main island of Taiwan.
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Penghu
- Type: County with 100,000 residents
- Description: county of Taiwan
- Also known as: “Hōko”, “Houko”, “hsian de Penghu”, “illes dels Pescadors”, “Kiok-tó”, “Kiok-tó͘”, “Kiok-tóo”, “P’eng-hu”, “P’eng-hu Hsien”, “Pecadores Islands”, “Penghu County”, “Penghu Konderria”, “Penghu Xian”, “Pescadores Islands”, “Phêⁿ-ô͘ County”, “Phênn-ôo County”, “Phênn-ôo-koān”, “Phênn-ôo-kuān”, “Phîⁿ-ô͘ County”, “Phîⁿ-ô͘-koān”, “Phînn-ôo County”, “Phînn-ôo-koān”, “xian de Penghu”, “팽호현”, “平湖”, “彭湖”, and “菊島”
- Categories: county of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
23.5697° or 23° 34′ 11″ north
Longitude of center
119.5665° or 119° 33′ 59″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
MZG
UN/LOCODE
TW MZG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Penghu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بسكادورز”
- Asturian: “Islles Pescadores”
- Basque: “Penghu konderria”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Penghu”
- Cebuano: “Penghu (lalawigan sa Republika sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Penghu”
- Chinese: “Pénghú Xiàn”
- Chinese: “澎湖”
- Chinese: “澎湖县”
- Chinese: “澎湖縣”
- Czech: “okres Pcheng-chu”
- Czech: “Okres Pcheng-chu”
- Danish: “Pescadorerne”
- Dutch: “Pescadores”
- Esperanto: “Penghuoj”
- Finnish: “Peskadorit”
- French: “comté de Penghu”
- French: “Penghu”
- German: “Landkreis Penghu”
- Hakka Chinese: “Phàng-fù-yen”
- Hebrew: “פנגחו”
- Icelandic: “Penghu”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Penghu”
- Italian: “contea di Penghu”
- Italian: “Contea di Penghu”
- Japanese: “澎湖県”
- Korean: “펑후 현”
- Korean: “펑후현”
- Literary Chinese: “澎湖縣”
- Malay: “Penghu”
- Malayalam: “പെൻഘു”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Pàng-hù-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Phêⁿ-ô͘-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Phîⁿ-ô͘ -koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Phînn-ôo-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “澎湖縣”
- Mongolian: “Пөнхү”
- Northern Frisian: “Penghu”
- Persian: “پنگهو”
- Portuguese: “Penghu”
- Russian: “Пэнху”
- Russian: “уезд Пэнху”
- Russian: “Уезд Пэнху”
- Sakizaya: “Pung-bu a kuwan”
- Scots: “Penghu”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Pengu”
- Spanish: “Islas Pescadores”
- Swedish: “Penghu (län)”
- Swedish: “Penghu”
- Thai: “เผิงหู”
- Ukrainian: “Пенху”
- Urdu: “پینگہو”
- Vietnamese: “Bành Hồ”
- Welsh: “Sir Penghu”
- Wu Chinese: “澎湖县”
- Yoruba: “Penghu”
- Yue Chinese: “澎湖縣”
- “澎湖縣”
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