Yushan

Yushan, also known as Jade Mountain or Mt. Jade, at 3952m, is the highest mountain in . It has also been claimed to be the tallest mountain in , but this depends on how one defines "East Asia".
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,952 metres
  • Description: highest mountain in Taiwan
  • Also known as: “Gio̍k-soaⁿ”, “Gyokuzan”, “Hsin-kao Shan”, “Jade Mountain”, “Jade Mtn.”, “Jadeberg”, “Ju Šan”, “Ju-šan”, “Jü-szan”, “montagne de Jade”, “Montanha de Jade”, “Mount Jade”, “Mount Morrison”, “Mount Niitaka”, “Mount Yu”, “Mt. Jade”, “Mt. Morrison”, “Nejvyšší hora Tchaj-wanu”, “Niitaka”, “Niitakajama”, “Niitakayama”, “Núi Ngọc Sơn”, “Patungkuonʉ”, “Saviah”, “Savih”, “Tanungu’incu”, “Tongku Saveq”, “Usaviah”, “Wang Shan”, “Yü Shan”, “Yui Shan”, “Yùi Shān”, “Yuk San”, “Yushan Main Peak”, “Ниитака”, “Юшань”, “위산 산”, “ニイタカヤマ”, “モリソン山”, “ユイシャン”, “摩里遜山”, “新高山”, “玉山国家公園”, “磨利生山”, and “馬禮遜山”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Yushan East Peak and Yushan North Peak.

Peak
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is a mountain of the Yushan Range located in the .

Peak
Photo: Peellden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mountain of the Yushan Range located in the .

Peak
Photo: Peellden, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yushan

Latitude
23.47° or 23° 28′ 12″ north
Longitude
120.9573° or 120° 57′ 26″ east
Elevation
3,952 metres (12,966 feet)
Open location code
7QM2FX94+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3428095932
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1665181
Wiki­data ID
Q500275
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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: “玉山”
  • Chinese: “玉山主峰”
  • Czech: “Jü-šan”
  • Dutch: “Yu Shan”
  • Dutch: “Yushan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ياوشان”
  • Esperanto: “Jadmonto”
  • Estonian: “Yushan”
  • Finnish: “Yu Shan”
  • French: “Yu Shan”
  • Galician: “Yu Shan”
  • German: “Yu Shan”
  • German: “Yushan”
  • Greek: “Γιου-Σαν”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngiu̍k-Sân”
  • Hebrew: “יושאן”
  • Indonesian: “Yushan”
  • Italian: “Yu Shan”
  • Japanese: “玉山”
  • Javanese: “Yushan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Yushan”
  • Korean: “위 산”
  • Korean: “위산”
  • Ladin: “Yushan”
  • Latvian: “Jušaņs”
  • Literary Chinese: “玉山”
  • Lithuanian: “Jušanas”
  • Macedonian: “Јушан”
  • Malay: “Gunung Saveq”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gio̍k-san”
  • Mingrelian: “იუშანი”
  • Mongolian: “Юйшань”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “يو شان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yushan”
  • Norwegian: “Yushan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yu Shan”
  • Paiwan: “Kanasi”
  • Persian: “یوشان”
  • Polish: “Yu Shan”
  • Portuguese: “Yu Shan”
  • Russian: “Юйшань”
  • Slovak: “Jü-šan”
  • Spanish: “Yu Shan”
  • Swahili: “Jade”
  • Swedish: “Yushan”
  • Tamil: “யு சான்”
  • Thai: “ยฺวี่ชาน”
  • Turkish: “Yushan”
  • Ukrainian: “Юйшань”
  • Venetian: “Yu Shan”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngọc Sơn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yushan”
  • Wu Chinese: “玉山”
  • Yue Chinese: “玉山”

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