Liuqiu, also known by several other names, is a coral island in the Taiwan Strait about 13 kilometers (8 mi) southwest of the main island of Taiwan. It has an area of 6.8 km2 (2.6 sq mi) and approximately 12,200 residents, the vast majority of whom share only 10 surnames. It is administered as a township of Pingtung County in Taiwan Province, Republic of China. As of 2019[update] the township chief is Chen Lung-chin.
Liuqiu, also known by several other names, is a coral island in the Taiwan Strait about 13 kilometers (8 mi) southwest of the main island of Taiwan. It...
Look up Liuqiu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Liuqiu or Lewchew is a Chinese place-name variously denoting: Liuqiu (medieval), a realm variously...
Mandarin is Liúqiú. Uchinaa (沖縄), Okinawa in Okinawan, is originally a native name for the largest island in the island chain. The island was referred...
Vase Rock is a rock just off LiuqiuIsland of Pingtung County, Taiwan. The rock was formed by the rising of the coastal coral reef. Its lower part has...
Black Dwarf Cave is a cave and tourist attraction in Tianfu Village on LiuqiuIsland, off Pingtung County, Taiwan. Its scenic area includes paths around...
coral reefs of LiuqiuIsland, then known to the Dutch as Lamay, in 1622. The crewmembers were killed by the native inhabitants of the island, which ultimately...
island as Taiwan while others do not. The Book of Sui relates that Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty sent three expeditions to a place called "Liuqiu"...
called "Liuqiu" early in the 7th century. Historically, the name Liuqiu (whose characters are read in Japanese as Ryukyu) referred to the island chain to...
Lobster Cave is a cave on LiuqiuIsland, off Pingtung County, Taiwan. "Lobster Cave" is a calque of the cave's Chinese name. It supposedly derives from...
Stanford UP, p. 117, ISBN 978-0804721950 Volkman, Toby Alice (1990), Sulawesi: island crossroads of Indonesia, Passport Books, p. 73, ISBN 0844299065 Koloniale...
22 °C (72 °F) year-round, the second highest of Southern Taiwan after LiuqiuIsland. According to recent records, the average temperature of the city has...
Haarlem), Coney Island (from Conyne Eylandt, modern Dutch spelling Konijneneiland: Rabbit island) and Staten Island (meaning "Island of the States")....
conquest of the Banda Islands was a process of military conquest from 1609 to 1621 by the Dutch East India Company of the Banda Islands. The Dutch, having...
of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. The East Indies were targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources...
(Chinese: 半屏山; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pòaⁿ-pêng-soaⁿ). Aboriginal inhabitants of LiuqiuIsland (13 km [8 mi] southwest of Taiwan, and now part of Pingtung County)...
the Acehnese and executed while others stated he escaped to the Lingga Island where he died in 1615. The captured Dutchmen were taken to Aceh as prisoners...
after re-acquiring it from the British. This was especially true on the island of Sumatra, where some areas would not come under Dutch rule until the 20th...
Strait. This strategic but treacherous 600-meter waterway separates the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū and provides a passage connecting the Inland Sea with...
Okinawa Island. Chinese Liuqiu was first attested in the Book of Sui (636), which stated that Sui China had sent expeditions to what it called Liuqiu (流求)...
Spice Islands was a military invasion by British forces that took place between February and August 1810 on and around the Dutch owned Maluku Islands (or...
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