Yilan County
Yilan, alternately spelled I-lan, is a county in northeastern Taiwan. It has a population of 450,031, and its seat is located in Yilan City. Before the Han Chinese Wu Sha led his company into large-scale reclamation in today's Yilan in 1787, the area was mainly inhabited by the indigenous Kavalan people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Yilan and Toucheng.
Yilan
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Yilan is a city on the east coast of Taiwan. As the area was mostly settled by Han Chinese immigrants from Zhangzhou, the local dialect of Taiwanese is noticeably more similar to that of Zhangzhou than in other parts of Taiwan.
Toucheng
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Toucheng Township is an urban township in Yilan County, Taiwan. The township includes Guishan Island and Guiluan Island in the Philippine Sea. The Senkaku Islands, known in Mandarin as the Diaoyu Islands, are claimed as part of the township.
Nanao
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Nanao, also Nan-ao, is a city in Yilan County. It has a significant aboriginal population.
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Suao
Suao is a city in Ilan County. It is famous for seafood and cold springs. Apart from that it's a rather small place and it doesn't seem to be frequented by western tourists. There is a large port and some industry.
Luodong
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Luodong Township, sometimes spelled Lotung or Lotong, is an urban township in the central part of Yilan County, Taiwan. Luodong is the smallest township in the county by area.
Datong Township
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Datong Township is a mountain indigenous township in the southwestern part of Yilan County, Taiwan. It is the second largest township in Yilan County after Nan'ao Township.
Yuanshan
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Yuanshan is a rural township in the western part of Yilan County, Taiwan.
Wujie
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Wujie ( is a town in Ilan County. Located on the coast near Luodong. The town has a population of around 40,000.
Jiaoxi
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Jiaoxi, also called Chiaohsi, is located in the northeast part of Yilan County, Taiwan. The newly completed Hsuehshan tunnel has shortened the traveling time and distance to get to Jiaoxi.
Tian Song Pi Agricultural Leisure Area
Tian Song Pi or Dian Song Pi is an agricultural leisure area in Yilan County.Yilan County
- Type: County with 450,000 residents
- Description: county in Taiwan
- Also known as: “Gî-lân”, “Giran”, “I-lan Hsien”, “Ilan”, “Yi Lan Hsien”, “Yilan County, Taiwan”, “Yilan Sian”, and “Yilan Xian”
- Neighbors: Hualien County, Nantou County, New Taipei, and Taichung
- Categories: county of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Taiwan Province, Eastern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
24.7303° or 24° 43′ 49″ northLongitude of center
121.7631° or 121° 45′ 47″ eastPopulation
450,000Elevation
1,006 metres (3,301 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655963OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zhuang—“Yilan County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ييلان”
- Asturian: “Condau Yilan”
- Basque: “Yilan konderria”
- Belarusian: “Ілань”
- Bengali: “ইলান কাউন্টি”
- Cebuano: “Yilan”
- Chinese: “Gî-lân-koān”
- Chinese: “Yílán Xiàn”
- Chinese: “噶瑪蘭”
- Chinese: “宜兰县”
- Chinese: “宜蘭縣”
- Czech: “I-lan”
- Czech: “Okres I-lan”
- Danish: “Yilan County”
- Dutch: “Yilan (xian)”
- Dutch: “Yilan”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Ilan”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Ilan”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Jilan”
- Finnish: “Yilanin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Yilan”
- French: “Comté de Yilan”
- French: “xian de Yilan”
- French: “Yilan”
- German: “Landkreis Ilan”
- German: “Landkreis Yilan”
- Greek: “Γιλάν”
- Gujarati: “યિલાન કાઉન્ટી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ngì-làn-yen”
- Hindi: “यिलान काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Yilan”
- Italian: “Contea di Yilan”
- Japanese: “ぎらん”
- Japanese: “宜蘭県”
- Kannada: “ಯಿಲಾನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “이란 현”
- Korean: “이란현”
- Latvian: “Ilaņas distrikts”
- Literary Chinese: “宜蘭縣”
- Lithuanian: “Jilano apskritis”
- Malay: “Yilan County”
- Marathi: “इलान काउंटी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ngì-làng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gî-lân-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gî-lân-kuān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “宜蘭縣”
- Mongolian: “Илань”
- Northern Frisian: “Yilan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yilan Fylke”
- Persian: “شهرستان ییلان”
- Persian: “یایلان”
- Polish: “Yilan”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Yilan”
- Russian: “Илань”
- Russian: “уезд Илань”
- Russian: “Уезд Илань”
- Sakizaya: “Yi-lan a kuwan”
- Sinhala: “යිලන් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Giran”
- Slovenian: “Jilan”
- Slovenian: “Okraj Giran”
- Slovenian: “Okraj Yilan”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Jilan”
- Slovenian: “Yilan”
- Spanish: “Condado de Yilan”
- Swedish: “Yilan”
- Tamil: “இலன் கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “యిలాన్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลอี๋หลาน”
- Thai: “อี๋หลาน”
- Turkish: “Yilan ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Yilan”
- Ukrainian: “Їлань”
- Ukrainian: “повіт Їлань”
- Urdu: “یلان کاؤنٹی، تائیوان”
- Urdu: “یلن کاؤنٹی، تائیوان”
- Vietnamese: “Huyện Nghi Lan”
- Vietnamese: “Nghi Lan”
- Welsh: “Sir Yilan”
- Yue Chinese: “宜蘭縣”
- Zhuang: “Yizlanz”
- “宜蘭縣”
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