Sun Moon Lake
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: largest lake in Taiwan
- Also known as: “Dragon Lake”, “Jih-yüeh T’an”, “Ji̍t-goa̍t-thâm”, “Jitsugetsutan Lake”, “Lake Candidius”, “Lake Jitsugetsu”, “Lake Riyue”, “Rihyue Tan”, “Riyue Lake”, “Rìyuè tán”, and “Zintun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lalu Island and Wenwu Temple.
Lalu Island
Park
Lalu Island is a small island in Sun Moon Lake, Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan. The island used to be much bigger, separating the lake into a part shaped like crescent moon and another part shaped like a round sun.
Wenwu Temple
Place of worship
Photo: 阿道, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sun Moon Lake Wen Wu Temple is a Wen Wu temple located on the perimeter of Sun Moon Lake in Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan.
T’zu-en Pagoda
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ci En Pagoda is a pagoda in Yuchi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ita thao and Yuchi.
Yuchi
Town
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yuchi Township is a rural township in the center of Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the location of the Sun Moon Lake, a tourist attraction.
Sun Moon Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Taiwan Province, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Sun Moon Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Sun Moon Lake” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sun Moon Lake”
- Cebuano: “Riyue Tan”
- Chinese: “Ji̍t-goa̍t-thâm”
- Chinese: “日月潭”
- Chinese: “日月潭水庫”
- Chinese: “明潭”
- Czech: “Jezero Slunce a Měsíce”
- Dutch: “Sun Moon Lake”
- Dutch: “Zon-maanmeer”
- Dutch: “Zon-Maanmeer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سون مون”
- Esperanto: “Sunluna Lago”
- French: “lac du Soleil et de la Lune”
- French: “Lac du Soleil et de la Lune”
- French: “lac riyue”
- French: “lac Zitun”
- French: “zitun”
- German: “Sonne-Mond-See”
- Hebrew: “אגם השמש והירח”
- Indonesian: “Danau Matahari Bulan”
- Italian: “Lago del sole e della luna”
- Italian: “lago Riyue”
- Italian: “Lago Riyue”
- Italian: “Lago Soleluna”
- Italian: “Lago Sun Moon”
- Japanese: “日月潭”
- Korean: “르웨탄호”
- Literary Chinese: “日月潭”
- Lithuanian: “Zijuetanas”
- Malay: “sun moon lake”
- Malayalam: “സൺ മൂൺ തടാകം”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-goa̍t-thâm”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-go̍at-thâm”
- Mongolian: “Наран саран нуур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sol-måne-sjøen”
- Norwegian: “Sol-måne-sjøen”
- Paiwan: “zintun a wazaqan”
- Russian: “Жиюэтань”
- Spanish: “Lago de Sol y Luna”
- Swedish: “Rìyuè tán”
- Swedish: “Solmånesjön”
- Thai: “ทะเลสาบสุริยันจันทรา”
- Tibetan: “ཉི་ཟླ་མཚོ་མོ།”
- Turkish: “Güneş Ay Gölü”
- Uighur: “قۇياش ئاي كۆلى”
- Ukrainian: “Жіюетань”
- Venetian: “lago Riyue”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Nhật Nguyệt”
- Wu Chinese: “日月潭”
- Yue Chinese: “日月潭”
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