Wangan
Wangan Township / Wang-an Township is a rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan. It is the second smallest township in Penghu County after Cimei Township. The township is made up of nineteen islands, six of which are inhabited.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,130 residents
- Description: A rural township in Penghu County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Bāng-oaⁿ”, “Bāng-uann”, “Tung-an-ts’un”, “Tung-hu-ts’un”, “Wang-an”, “Wang-an-she”, “Wang’an”, “Wangan Township”, and “Wangan, Penghu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wang-an Airport and Xi’an Reservoir.
Xi’an Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Boattoad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Xi'an Reservoir, also known as Hsi-an Reservoir, is a reservoir on the Penghu Islands, located in Wang'an Township, Penghu County, Taiwan. The construction of Xi'an Reservoir started in July 1985, and was completed in October 1987.
Wangan
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Penghu, Taiwan Province, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.3572° or 23° 21′ 26″ northLongitude
119.501° or 119° 30′ 4″ eastPopulation
5,130Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)IATA airport code
WOTOpen location code
7PMX9G42+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655662OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Wangan” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wang’an Xiang”
- Chinese: “Bāng-oaⁿ-hiong”
- Chinese: “八罩山”
- Chinese: “八罩嶼”
- Chinese: “八罩澳”
- Chinese: “挽門嶼”
- Chinese: “望安”
- Chinese: “望安乡”
- Chinese: “望安鄉”
- Chinese: “網垵”
- Czech: “Ostrov Pachao”
- Czech: “Wang-an”
- French: “Wang’an”
- German: “Wang’an”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mong-ôn-hiông”
- Japanese: “ペー ター”
- Japanese: “望安”
- Japanese: “望安郷”
- Korean: “왕안 향”
- Korean: “왕안향”
- Ladin: “Wang’an”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bāng-oaⁿ-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bāng-oaⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bāng-uann-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bāng-uann”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Peh-táu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “網垵鄉”
- Persian: “وانگان”
- Polish: “Wang’an”
- Spanish: “Wang-an”
- Vietnamese: “Vọng An, Bành Hồ”
- Vietnamese: “Vọng An”
- Yue Chinese: “mong6 on1”
- Yue Chinese: “望安鄉”
- “望安鄉”
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