Central Taiwan
Taiwan Province
Taichung City

Taichung

Taichung is a city in the west-central part of the island of . It has a pleasant climate and a population of just over 2.8 million people, making it the second largest city on the island after .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Taichung Theater and Fengjia Night Market.

Theater building
Photo: Fcuk1203, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an opera house in the Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone in the of Taichung, . The estimated area of the structure is 57,685 square meters.

Marketplace
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or Feng Chia Night Market, also called Fengjia Shopping Town, is a night market in , Taichung, . The market is located next to Feng Chia University. It was claimed to be the largest night market in Taiwan.

Shopping center
Photo: Wpcpey, CC BY 4.0.
is a in Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone, , Taichung, that opened on January 16, 2002.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Xitun District and Nantun District.

Suburb
Photo: Koika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Situn District is the second-most populated district of Taichung, . It is located on the western side of the city. Once considered part of the countryside, the district has seen rapid growth in recent years with department store and office towers in the redevelopment zone.

Suburb
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is an urban district in Taichung, . It was a part of Taichung before the City and County were amalgamated in 2010. The district has seen rapid growth in recent years with department store and office towers in the 7th redevelopment zone.

Suburb
Photo: Fcuk1203, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North District is an urban district in the city of Taichung. It was a part of Taichung before the City and County were amalgamated in 2010. The North District is one of Taichung's major developed shopping, education, and cultural areas.

Taichung

Latitude
24.1632° or 24° 9′ 47″ north
Longitude
120.6478° or 120° 38′ 52″ east
Population
2,770,000
Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)
IATA airport code
RMQ
United Nations Location Code
TW TXG
Open location code
7QP25J7X+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1668399
Wiki­data ID
Q245023
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Taichung” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Taichung”
  • Arabic: “تاي شانغ”
  • Armenian: “Տայչժուն”
  • Asturian: “Taichung”
  • Balinese: “Kota Taichung”
  • Belarusian: “Тайчжун”
  • Bengali: “তাইচুং”
  • Bengali: “তাইচোং”
  • Catalan: “Taichung”
  • Catalan: “Taitxung”
  • Cebuano: “Taichung City”
  • Chechen: “Тайчжун”
  • Chinese: “Tâi-tiong-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Táizhōng Shì”
  • Chinese: “中市”
  • Chinese: “台中”
  • Chinese: “台中市”
  • Chinese: “臺中”
  • Chinese: “臺中市”
  • Croatian: “Taichung”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-čung”
  • Danish: “Taichung”
  • Dutch: “Taichung”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاى شانج”
  • Esperanto: “Tajĉung”
  • Esperanto: “Tajĉungo”
  • Estonian: “Taichung”
  • Finnish: “Taichung”
  • French: “Taichung”
  • Gan Chinese: “臺中”
  • Gan Chinese: “臺中市”
  • German: “Taichung”
  • Greek: “Ταϊτσούνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “તાઈચુંગ”
  • Gujarati: “તૈચંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-chûng-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Taichung”
  • Hebrew: “טאיג’ונג”
  • Hindi: “ताइचुंग”
  • Hindi: “ताईचुंग”
  • Hungarian: “Tajcshung”
  • Hungarian: “Tajcsung”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Taichung”
  • Indonesian: “Taichung”
  • Irish: “Taichung”
  • Italian: “Taichung”
  • Japanese: “中”
  • Japanese: “中市”
  • Japanese: “台中”
  • Japanese: “台中市”
  • Japanese: “大墩”
  • Kannada: “ತಾಯ್ಚುಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ತೈಚುಂಗ್”
  • Khmer: “តៃជុង”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайчжун”
  • Korean: “타이중 시”
  • Korean: “타이중시”
  • Ladin: “Taichung”
  • Latvian: “Taičuna”
  • Latvian: “Taidžuna”
  • Literary Chinese: “臺中市”
  • Lithuanian: “Taičungas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Taichung”
  • Macedonian: “Тајџунг”
  • Malay: “Taichung”
  • Maltese: “Taichung”
  • Marathi: “ताईचुंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dài-dṳ̆ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-tiong-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-tiong”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “台中市”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაიჩუნი”
  • Mongolian: “Тайжун”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taichung”
  • Norwegian: “Taichung”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taichung”
  • Ossetian: “Тайчжун”
  • Persian: “تایچونگ”
  • Polish: “Taizhong”
  • Portuguese: “Taichung”
  • Portuguese: “Taizhong”
  • Quechua: “T’aychun”
  • Quechua: “Taychun”
  • Romanian: “Taichung”
  • Russian: “Тайчжун”
  • Sakizaya: “Tay-cung”
  • Scots: “Taichung”
  • Serbian: “Тајучунг”
  • Silesian: “Taizhong”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිචන්ග්”
  • Sinhala: “ටායිචන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Taichung”
  • Slovenian: “Taizhong”
  • Slovenian: “Tajčung”
  • Spanish: “Taichung”
  • Swedish: “Taichung”
  • Tamil: “டைச்சுங்”
  • Tamil: “தாய்சங்”
  • Telugu: “టాయిచుంగ్”
  • Thai: “ไถจง”
  • Turkish: “Taichung”
  • Turkish: “Tayçung”
  • Uighur: “Teyjong shehiri”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайчжун”
  • Urdu: “تائچونگ”
  • Urdu: “ٹائچونگ”
  • Venetian: “Taichung”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Trung”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taichung”
  • Wu Chinese: “台中市”
  • Wu Chinese: “臺中市”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺中市”
  • Zhuang: “Daizcungh”
  • “臺中市”

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