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Taitung County

Taitung is the third largest county in , located primarily on the island's southeastern coast and also including Green Island, Orchid Island and Lesser Orchid Island. The seat is located in .
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City is a county-administered city and the county seat of County, . It lies on the southeast coast of facing the Pacific Ocean.

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, known as Pongso no Tao by the indigenous inhabitants, is a 45 km2 volcanic island located off the southeastern coast of Taiwan. The island and the nearby Lesser are governed by Taiwan as Lanyu Township in Taitung County, which is one of the county's two insular townships.

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, also known by other names, is a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean about 33 km off the eastern coast of the main island of Taiwan.

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is a rural township in Taitung County, . It is the northernmost township in Taitung County. It population of 7,200 people consists mainly of the Amis people with a Kavalan minority.

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Township is a rural township located in northeastern Taitung County, . The population is mainly the indigenous Amis people. The main industry is agriculture.

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Township is a rural township in Taitung County, . The majority inhabitants of the township are the indigenous Paiwan people.

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Township is a mountain indigenous township in Taitung County, . The main population is the Paiwan people of the Taiwanese aborigines.

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Chihshang Township is a rural township in Taitung County, . Chihshang was founded by indigenous Makatao from 160 years ago, along with the other immigrants, including Taivoan from and very few Siraya from later in the 1950s.

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is a rural township of 14,000 people in Taitung County, . It is on the Pacific Coast of the island.

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Township or Peinan Township is a rural township in Taitung County, . It has a population of 16,798 as of February 2023. It is home to the Puyuma and Rukai peoples.

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Township (Chinese: 海端鄉; pinyin: Hǎiduān Xiāng; Wade–Giles: Hai3-tuan1 Hsiang, with a population of 4,224 as of February 2023. The main population is the Bunun people of the Taiwanese aborigines.

Taitung County

Latitude of center
22.7554° or 22° 45′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
121.1506° or 121° 9′ 2″ east
Population
212,000
Elevation
594 metres (1,949 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60655688
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1668292
Wiki­data ID
Q249904
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Taitung County” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة تايتونغ”
  • Armenian: “Թայդուն”
  • Basque: “Taitung konderria”
  • Bengali: “টাইটুং কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Таитунг”
  • Cebuano: “Taitung”
  • Chinese: “Tâi-tang-koān”
  • Chinese: “Táidōng Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “台东县”
  • Chinese: “台東縣”
  • Chinese: “臺東縣”
  • Czech: “okres Tchaj-tung”
  • Czech: “Okres Tchaj-tung”
  • Danish: “Taitung County”
  • Dutch: “Taitung (xian)”
  • Dutch: “Taitung”
  • Esperanto: “distrikto Taitung”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Taitung”
  • Esperanto: “distrikto Tajtung”
  • Finnish: “Taitungin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Taitung”
  • French: “Comté de Taitung”
  • Galician: “Condado del Taitung”
  • German: “Landkreis Taitung”
  • German: “Taitung”
  • Greek: “Ταϊτούνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “તૈતુંગ કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thòi-tûng-yen”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז טייטונג”
  • Hindi: “ताइतुंग काउंटी”
  • Indonesian: “County Taitung”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Taitung”
  • Italian: “Contea di Taitung”
  • Japanese: “台東県”
  • Kannada: “ತೈಟಂಗ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “تائتُنٛگ کاؤنٹی”
  • Korean: “타이둥 현”
  • Korean: “타이둥현”
  • Latvian: “Taidunas apriņķis”
  • Literary Chinese: “臺東縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Taidongo apskritis”
  • Malay: “Taitung County”
  • Marathi: “तायतुग काउंटी”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dài-dĕ̤ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-tang-koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâi-tang-kuān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “臺東縣”
  • Mongolian: “Тайдун”
  • Northern Frisian: “Taitung”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taitung Fylke”
  • Paiwan: “taitu king”
  • Paiwan: “Taitu king”
  • Paiwan: “taituking”
  • Paiwan: “valangaw”
  • Polish: “Taidong”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Taitung”
  • Russian: “Тайдун”
  • Russian: “уезд Тайдун”
  • Sakizaya: “pusung”
  • Sinhala: “ටයිටුන්ග් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Taitung”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Taitung”
  • Spanish: “Condado del Taitung”
  • Swedish: “Taitung”
  • Tajik: “воҳиди Тайтунг”
  • Tamil: “டைட்டுங் கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “టైటుంగ్ కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “ไถตง”
  • Thai: “เทศมณฑลไถตง”
  • Turkish: “Taitung County”
  • Turkish: “Taitung ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Taitung”
  • Ukrainian: “повіт Тайдун”
  • Ukrainian: “Повіт Тайдун”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайдун”
  • Urdu: “تائیتونگ کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài Đông”
  • Welsh: “Sir Taitung”
  • Yue Chinese: “臺東縣”
  • “臺東縣”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Taitung County”. Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.