Yilan (city in Taiwan)
Yilan 宜蘭 市 |
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Yilan Railway Station |
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State : | Republic of China (Taiwan) | |
County : | Yilan | |
Coordinates : | 24 ° 45 ′ N , 121 ° 45 ′ E | |
Height : | 5 m | |
Area : | 29.40 km² | |
Residents : | 96,268 (August 2013) | |
Population density : | 3,274 inhabitants per km² | |
Time zone : | UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time) | |
ISO 3166-2 : | TW-ILA | |
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Yilan , also: Ilan ( Chinese 宜蘭 市 , Pinyin Yílán Shì , W.-G. I 2 -lan 2 Shih 4 , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Gî-lân-chhī ), is the capital of Yilan County in Taiwan . It is located in a small coastal plain , mainly used for rice cultivation, in the estuary of the Lanyang River in the northern part of Taiwan's east coast, around 80 km southeast of Taipei .
The city has about 96,000 inhabitants and an area of 29.40 km². The name Yilan comes from the Kavalan tribes of the Taiwanese indigenous people .
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Climate data from the years 1981–2010
Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau
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