Taitung

Taitung is a city in Southeastern . Taitung is situated on a small plain between the mountains and the ocean at the southern mouth of the East Rift Valley.
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  • Type: Town with 106,000 residents
  • Description: A county-administered city in Taitung County, Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Pusong”, “Pusung”, “T’ai-tung”, “T’ai-tung Shih”, “T’ai-tung-chen”, “T’ai-tung-hsien”, “Taichung”, “Taidong”, “Taidung”, and “Taitung City”
  • Historically known as: “Pinamu” and “Taito”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Visitor Center and Pipa Lake.

Tourism office
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The Taitung Railway Art Village is an art center in Taitung City, , .

Scenic viewpoint
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The is a lake in Taitung City, , .

Park
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is a park at Taitung City, , .

Taitung

Latitude
22.756° or 22° 45′ 22″ north
Longitude
121.1457° or 121° 8′ 44″ east
Population
106,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
TTT
United Nations Location Code
TW TTT
Open location code
7QJ3Q44W+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655863
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1668295
Wiki­data ID
Q713381
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amis to Yue Chinese—“Taitung” goes by many names.
  • Amis: “Pusong”
  • Amis: “Pusung”
  • Amis: “Taitung”
  • Armenian: “Թայդուն”
  • Asturian: “Taitung City”
  • Atayal: “Taitung”
  • Catalan: “Taitung”
  • Cebuano: “Taitung City”
  • Chinese: “Tâi-tang-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Táidōng Shì”
  • Chinese: “卑南覓”
  • Chinese: “台东”
  • Chinese: “台东市”
  • Chinese: “台東”
  • Chinese: “台東市”
  • Chinese: “台東鎮”
  • Chinese: “寶桑”
  • Chinese: “崇爻”
  • Chinese: “臺東”
  • Chinese: “臺東市”
  • Chinese: “臺東鎮”
  • Czech: “Taidong”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-tung”
  • Dutch: “Taidong”
  • Dutch: “Táidong”
  • Dutch: “Táidōng”
  • Dutch: “Taitung (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Taitung”
  • Esperanto: “Tajtung”
  • French: “Pusung”
  • French: “Taidong”
  • French: “Taitung”
  • German: “Taidong”
  • German: “Taitung”
  • Greek: “Ταϊτούνγκ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-tûng-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “toiˇ dungˊ sii”
  • Hausa: “Taitung”
  • Hebrew: “טאיטונג”
  • Hungarian: “Tajtung”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Taitung”
  • Indonesian: “Taitung”
  • Irish: “Cathair Taitung”
  • Italian: “Taitung”
  • Japanese: “台東市”
  • Korean: “타이둥시”
  • Ladin: “Taitung”
  • Lithuanian: “Taidongas”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dài-dṳ̆ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-tang-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “台東市”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “臺東市”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taitung City”
  • Norwegian: “Taitung City”
  • Paiwan: “valangaw”
  • Persian: “تایتونگ”
  • Polish: “Taidong”
  • Polish: “Taitung”
  • Russian: “Тайдун”
  • Saisiyat: “Taytokin”
  • Sakizaya: “Taitung”
  • Slovenian: “Taitung”
  • Spanish: “Taitung”
  • Tagalog: “Taitung”
  • Taroko: “Taitung”
  • Thai: “นครไถตง”
  • Turkish: “Taitung”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайдун”
  • Venetian: “Taitung”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Đông”
  • Vietnamese: “Huyện Đài Đông”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Đài Đông”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taitung City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taitung”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺東市”
  • “卑南覓”
  • “台東”
  • “台東市”
  • “台東鎮”
  • “寶桑”
  • “崇爻”
  • “臺東”
  • “臺東市”
  • “臺東鎮”

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