Sun Moon Lake

Sun Moon Lake is a lake in , , . 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.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: largest lake in Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Dragon Lake”, “Jih-yüeh T’an”, “Ji̍t-go̍at-thâm”, “Jitsugetsu-tan”, “Jitsugetsutan”, “Jitsugetsutan Lake”, “lac riyue”, “lac Zitun”, “Lago del sole e della luna”, “Lago Soleluna”, “Lago Sun Moon”, “Lake Candidius”, “Lake Jitsugetsu”, “Lake Riyue”, “Li̍t-goa̍t-thâm”, “Li̍t-gua̍t-thâm”, “Nin-Isivatan Lake”, “Rihyue Tan”, “Riyue Lake”, “Rìyuè tán”, “Wazaqan”, “Zintun”, “Zintun a Wazaqan”, “zitun”, “Zon-maanmeer”, “じつげつ-たん”, “干治士湖”, “日月潭水庫”, “明潭”, “林伊西巴坦湖”, “水社大湖”, “珠潭”, “雙潭”, and “龍湖”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lalu Island and T’zu-en Pagoda.

Park
Photo: S099001, CC0.
is a small island in Sun Moon Lake, , , .

Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ci En Pagoda is a pagoda in , , .

Theme park
Photo: 阿道, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yuchi and Ita thao.

Town
Photo: Chongkian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Township is a rural township in the center of , Taiwan.

Village
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
is a village.

Sun Moon Lake

Latitude
23.861° or 23° 51′ 40″ north
Longitude
120.9183° or 120° 55′ 6″ east
Elevation
747 metres (2,451 feet)
Open location code
7QM2VW69+98
Geo­Names ID
1674105
Wiki­data ID
Q716206
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Sun Moon Lake” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Sun Moon Lake”
  • Cebuano: “Riyue Tan”
  • Chinese: “日月潭”
  • Czech: “Jezero Slunce a Měsíce”
  • Dutch: “Sun Moon Lake”
  • 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”
  • German: “Sonne-Mond-See”
  • Hebrew: “אגם השמש והירח”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Matahari Bulan”
  • Italian: “lago Riyue”
  • Italian: “Lago Riyue”
  • Japanese: “日月潭”
  • Korean: “르웨탄호”
  • Literary Chinese: “日月潭”
  • Lithuanian: “Zijuetanas”
  • Madurese: “Danau Zintun”
  • Malay: “sun moon lake”
  • Malayalam: “സൺ മൂൺ തടാകം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-goa̍t-thâm”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-gua̍t-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: “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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