Yushan
Yushan, also known as Jade Mountain or Mt. Jade, at 3952m, is the highest mountain in Taiwan. It has also been claimed to be the tallest mountain in East Asia, but this depends on how one defines "East Asia".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,952 metres
- Description: highest mountain in Taiwan
- Also known as: “Gyokuzan”, “Hsin-kao Shan”, “Jade Mountain”, “Jade Mtn.”, “Kanasi”, “Mount Jade”, “Mount Morrison”, “Mount Niitaka”, “Mount Yu”, “Mt. Jade”, “Mt. Morrison”, “Patungkuonʉ”, “Saviah”, “Savih”, “Tanungu’incu”, “Tongku Saveq”, “Usaviah”, “Wang Shan”, “Yu Shan”, and “Yushan Main Peak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yushan East Peak and Yushan North Peak.
Yushan East Peak
Peak
Photo: Peellden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yushan East Peak is a mountain of the Yushan Range located in the Yushan National Park. With a height of 3,869 m, it is the 3rd tallest mountain in Taiwan and the 2nd tallest in the Yushan Range.
Yushan North Peak
Peak
Photo: Peellden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yushan North Peak is a mountain of the Yushan Range located in the Yushan National Park. With a height of 3,858 m, it is the 4th tallest mountain in Taiwan and the 3rd tallest in the Yushan Range.
Yushan
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Xinyi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan Province, Central Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
23.47° or 23° 28′ 12″ northLongitude
120.9573° or 120° 57′ 26″ eastElevation
3,952 metres (12,966 feet)Open location code
7QM2FX94+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 3428095932OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yushan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يو شان”
- Armenian: “Յուշան”
- Belarusian: “Гара Юйшань”
- Belarusian: “Юйшань”
- Breton: “Yu Shan”
- Catalan: “Yushan”
- Cebuano: “Yu Shan”
- Chinese: “Gio̍k-san”
- Chinese: “摩里遜山”
- Chinese: “新高山”
- Chinese: “玉山”
- Chinese: “玉山主峰”
- Chinese: “磨利生山”
- Chinese: “馬禮遜山”
- Czech: “Ju Šan”
- Czech: “Ju-šan”
- Czech: “Jü-šan”
- Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Tchaj-wanu”
- Czech: “Niitakajama”
- Dutch: “Yu Shan”
- Dutch: “Yushan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ياوشان”
- Esperanto: “Jadmonto”
- Estonian: “Yushan”
- Finnish: “Yu Shan”
- French: “montagne de Jade”
- French: “Yu Shan”
- Galician: “Yu Shan”
- German: “Jadeberg”
- German: “Niitaka”
- German: “Niitakayama”
- German: “Yu Shan”
- German: “Yü Shan”
- German: “Yui Shan”
- German: “Yùi Shān”
- German: “Yushan”
- Greek: “Γιου-Σαν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ngiu̍k-Sân”
- Hebrew: “יושאן”
- Indonesian: “Yushan”
- Italian: “Yu Shan”
- Japanese: “ニイタカヤマ”
- Japanese: “モリソン山”
- Japanese: “ユイシャン”
- Japanese: “新高山”
- Japanese: “玉山”
- Japanese: “玉山国家公園”
- Javanese: “Yushan”
- Kalaallisut: “Yushan”
- Korean: “위 산”
- Korean: “위산 산”
- Korean: “위산”
- Ladin: “Yushan”
- Latvian: “Jušaņs”
- Literary Chinese: “Jade Mountain”
- Literary Chinese: “玉山”
- Lithuanian: “Jušanas”
- Macedonian: “Јушан”
- Malay: “Gunung Saveq”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gio̍k-san”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gio̍k-soaⁿ”
- Mingrelian: “იუშანი”
- Mongolian: “Юйшань”
- Moroccan Arabic: “يو شان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yushan”
- Norwegian: “Yushan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yu Shan”
- Paiwan: “Kanasi”
- Persian: “یوشان”
- Polish: “Jü-szan”
- Polish: “Yu Shan”
- Portuguese: “Montanha de Jade”
- Portuguese: “Yu Shan”
- Russian: “Ниитака”
- Russian: “Юйшань”
- Russian: “Юшань”
- Spanish: “Yu Shan”
- Swahili: “Jade”
- Swedish: “Niitaka”
- Swedish: “Yu Shan”
- Swedish: “Yushan”
- Tamil: “யு சான்”
- Thai: “ยฺวี่ชาน”
- Turkish: “Yushan”
- Ukrainian: “Юйшань”
- Venetian: “Yu Shan”
- Vietnamese: “Ngọc Sơn”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Ngọc Sơn”
- Vietnamese: “Yushan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yushan”
- Wu Chinese: “Jade Mountain”
- Wu Chinese: “玉山”
- Yue Chinese: “Jade Mountain”
- Yue Chinese: “Yuk San”
- Yue Chinese: “Yushan”
- Yue Chinese: “玉山”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Yushan”. Photo: 神武禦皇, CC BY-SA 4.0.