Hualien
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Hualien 花蓮 市 |
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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| County : | Hualien | ||
| Coordinates : | 23 ° 58 ' N , 121 ° 36' E | ||
| Area : | 29.4095 km² | ||
| Residents : | 104,046 (March 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 3,538 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+886) (0) 3 | ||
| Postal code : | 970 | ||
| ISO 3166-2 : | TW-HUA | ||
| Community type : | City (市, Shi ) | ||
| Structure : | 46 districts (里, Li ) | ||
| Mayor : | Wei, Jia-Sian (魏嘉賢) ( KMT ) | ||
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Hualien ( Chinese 花蓮 市 , Pinyin Huālián Shì , W.-G. Hua-lien shih , Zhuyin ㄏ ㄨ ㄚ ㄌ ㄧ ㄢ ˊ ㄕ ˋ , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Hoa-liân-chhī ) is the capital of Hualien County , Republic China on Taiwan . It is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean . The city has about 110,000 inhabitants.
Name and story
The region was originally from the indigenous-Taiwanese people of Sakizaya populated. Only from the second half of the 19th century did Han Chinese settle permanently . According to the work on local history Huālián xiànzhì ( Chinese 花蓮 縣志 ), the place was originally called Kilai ( Chinese 奇萊 , Pinyin Jīlái , W.-G. Chi-lai , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Kî-lâi ). When Taiwan came under Japanese rule in 1895, the Japanese changed the place name to Karenkō ( 花蓮 港 ), since Kilai is Japanese homophonic to kirai “abhorrence; Hate; Disgust "is. After Taiwan fell back to the Republic of China after the end of World War II, the latter retained the Japanese characters except for the third, but these were now pronounced in Chinese as Hualien .
In the past, Hualien and the surrounding area have been repeatedly hit by earthquakes. The most serious recent events were the earthquakes between October and December 1951 and the earthquake on February 6, 2018 .
location
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Hualien is stretched along the Pacific coast. The municipalities adjacent to the city area are Xincheng in the north, Xiulin in the west and Ji'an in the southwest and south. Hualien lies on a relatively narrow coastal plain. In the urban area, the small river Meilun (美 崙 溪) flows into the Pacific. The foothills of the Taiwan Central Mountains extend in the hinterland .
Residents
With around 110,000 inhabitants, Hualien is the only major city and the capital of the district of the same name. About a third of the residents of Hualien County live here. The population has been slowly declining for several years. In 2015, according to official statistics, 12,125 people (about 11%) of the city's population belonged to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan . According to the 2010 census, the following languages were spoken at home in Hualien (people over 6 years of age): Standard Chinese 92.5%, Taiwanese 74.6%, Hakka 6.8%, Formosa languages 5.4%, other languages 1, 4%. Most of the residents spoke more than one language.
Transport and infrastructure
Hualien is connected to the railway network, the local train station forms the border between the so-called north connection line north to Su'ao in Yilan County and the Taitung line south to Taitung . The train ride to Taipei takes about 3 hours and that to Kaohsiung takes about 5½ hours. Hualien is connected to the national road network of Taiwan via the provincial highways 8 (to Taichung ), 9 (to Su'ao) and 11 (to Taitung). The Hualien airport is not in town, but directly adjacent to the northern neighboring community Xincheng . From there there are connections to Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Taichung, as well as a few foreign destinations. From the port of Hualien there are shipping connections to various international ports.
climate
Hualien has a subtropical monsoon climate . The rainy season lasts from May to November and the average temperature is 23.5 ° C.
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Climate data from the years 1981–2010
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Administrative division
Hualien is divided into 46 districts (里, li ). The names of the districts all begin with either the syllable 國 , Guó - "country", the syllable 民 , Mín - "people" or the syllable 主 , Zhǔ - "Lord".
- Guoan (國 安)
- Guofang (國防)
- Guofeng (國 風)
- Guofù (國 福)
- Guofú (國 福)
- Guoguang (國 光)
- Guohua (國 華)
- Guohun (國 魂)
- Guolian (國 聯)
- Guoqiang (國 強)
- Guoqing (國慶)
- Guosheng (國 盛)
- Guowei (國威)
- Guoxing (國 興)
- Guoyu (國 裕)
- Guozhi (國 治)
- Minde (民德)
- Minyue (民樂)
- Minli (民 立)
- Minqin (民勤)
- Minquan (民權)
- Minsheng (民生)
- Minxiang (民享)
- Minxiao (民 孝)
- Minxin (民心)
- Minyi (民意)
- Minyou (民有)
- Minyue (民樂)
- Minyun (民運)
- Minzheng (民政)
- Minzhi (民治)
- Minzhu (民主)
- Minzu (民族)
- Zhuan (主 安)
- Zhugong (主 工)
- Zhuhe (主和)
- Zhuji (主 計)
- Zhuli (主力)
- Zhumu (主 睦)
- Zhunong (主 農)
- Zhuqin (主 勤)
- Zhuquan (主權)
- Zhushang (主 商)
- Zhuxin (主 信)
- Zhuxue (主 學)
- Zhuyi (主義)
Attractions
Since Hualien is a relatively young city, most of the older buildings date from the 20th century. There are individual houses from the time of Japanese rule, as well as gardens and parks.
Hualien City Hall
Hualien harbor in the evening
Mouth of the Meilun River, in the background the harbor quay
Residential district in Hualien
View inland from Guoqiang (國 強) to the central mountains
Personalities
- Chuu-Lian Terng (* 1949), mathematician
Twin cities
Sister cities are:
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Ulsan , South Korea (1982) -
Yonaguni , Japan (1982) -
Albuquerque , USA (1983) -
Bellevue (Washington) , USA (1984)
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Oudtshoorn , South Africa (1985)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 台灣 十大 災害 地震 圖集 (“Mapping the 10 Strongest Earthquakes in Taiwan”). (No longer available online.) Taiwan Central Weather Bureau, archived from the original on February 10, 2018 ; Retrieved February 7, 2018 (Chinese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 原住民 戶數 及 人數 Households and Persons of Indigenous People. Taiwan Ministry of the Interior, accessed December 9, 2017 (Chinese, English).
- ↑ 表 9 花蓮 縣 ６ 歲 以上 本 國籍 常住 人口 在家 使用 語言 情形 (“Table 9: Languages spoken at home by people over 6 years of age in Taitung County”). (PDF) (No longer available online.) Taiwan Statistical Office ( http://ebas1.ebas.gov.tw/phc2010/english/53.htm ), archived from the original on December 10, 2017 ; Retrieved on December 9, 2017 (Chinese, English, the percentages add up to more than 100%, since a large part of the population is multilingual, the survey did not explicitly ask about the mother tongue, standard Chinese is used as the official language at least as a second language from Majority of the population spoken). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ About Hualien City. (No longer available online.) Hualien City Council, archived from original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed on December 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 鄰里 介紹 ("Introduction to the City Districts"). Hualien City Council, accessed July 1, 2018 (Chinese).
- ^ Historic Buildings. Accessed December 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Monuments. Accessed December 14, 2017 .
- ^ Sister Cities. (No longer available online.) Hualien City Council, archived from original on December 10, 2017 ; accessed on December 10, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
