Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung, with 2.73 million inhabitants in October 2023, is the third most populated city in Taiwan after New Taipei and Taichung. It is located in the south of the island on the west coast.Photo: Chi-Hung Lin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 2,780,000 residents
- Description: special municipality of Taiwan
- Neighbors: Chiayi County, Hualien County, Nantou County, Pingtung County, Tainan and Taitung County
Photo: 毛貓大少爺, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: hngyue, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Kao-hsiung Station
Photo: Foxy1219, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kaohsiung Main Station is a railway and metro station in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan served by the Taiwan Railways and Kaohsiung Rapid Transit.
National Kaohsiung Normal University
Photo: Luuva, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Kaohsiung Normal University, was founded in 1967.
Kaohsiung Main Public Library
The Kaohsiung Main Public Library is the central library of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.Localities in the Area
Sanmin District
Photo: mach cannon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
22°39′22″N 120°19′36″E / 22.656235°N 120.326715°E Sanmin District is a district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Fongshan District
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fongshan District is a district located in southern Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Kaohsiung
- Categories: special municipality, big city, port settlement and locality
- Location: Southern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.6203° or 22° 37' 13" northLongitude
120.312° or 120° 18' 43" eastPopulation
2,780,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)IATA airport code
KHHUnited Nations Location Code
TW KHHOpen Location Code
7QJ2J8C6+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 60655691OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1673820Wikidata ID
Q181557Kaohsiung Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kaohsiung
- Arabic: Kaohsiung
- Arabic: كاوهسيونغ
- Armenian: Գաոսյուն
- Asturian: Kaohsiung
- Atayal: Takaw Si
- Basque: Kaohsiung
- Belarusian: Гаасюн
- Bengali: কাউশিউং
- Bengali: কোসিয়োং শহর
- Bulgarian: Гаосюн
- Burmese: ကောင်းရှုံမြို့
- Catalan: Kaohsiung
- Cebuano: Kaohsiung (kapital sa lalawigan)
- Cebuano: Kaohsiung (lalawigan)
- Cebuano: Kaohsiung
- Chechen: Гаосюн
- Chinese: Ko-hiông-chhī
- Chinese: 打狗
- Chinese: 打鼓
- Chinese: 港都
- Chinese: 高
- Chinese: 高市
- Chinese: 高雄
- Chinese: 高雄市
- Czech: Gaoxiong
- Czech: Kao-siung
- Czech: Kaohsiung
- Danish: Kaohsiung
- Dutch: Gaoxiong
- Dutch: Kao-hsiung
- Dutch: Kaohsiung
- Dutch: Kaosiung
- Dutch: Kau-sjioeng
- Egyptian Arabic: كاوهسيونج
- English (Historic): Takao
- English: City of Kaohsiung
- English: Gaosyong
- English: Gaoxiong
- English: Kaohsiung City
- English: TW-KHH
- English: Ta-kaô
- English: Takao
- English: Takaô
- English: Tá-káu
- Esperanto: Kaoŝiung
- Esperanto: Kaoŝiungo
- Finnish: Kaohsiung
- French: Kaohsiung
- French: Kaohsiung City
- French: Kaoshiung
- Galician: Kaohsiung
- Gan Chinese: 高雄
- Gan Chinese: 高雄市
- Georgian: კაოჰსიუნგი
- German: Gaoxiong
- German: Kaohsiung
- German: Kaoshiung
- German: TW-KHH
- Greek: Καοσιούνγκ
- Gujarati: કાઊશુંગ શહેર
- Gujarati: કાઓશિયાંગ શહેર
- Hakka Chinese: Kô-hiùng-sṳ
- Hakka Chinese: Kô-hiùng
- Hakka Chinese: Kô-kiùng-sṳ
- Hausa: Kaohsiung
- Hausa: Kô-hiùng-sṳ
- Hebrew: גאושיונג
- Hindi: कओसिउंग शहर
- Hindi: काऊशुंग सिटी
- Hindi: कौश्यींग
- Hungarian: Kaohsziung
- Icelandic: Kaohsiung
- Indonesian: Kaohsiung
- Indonesian: Kota Kaohsiung
- Interlingue: Kaohsiung
- Irish: Kaohsiung
- Italian: Gāoxióng
- Italian: Kao-hsiung
- Italian: Kaohsiung
- Japanese: たかお
- Japanese: たかおし
- Japanese: たかを
- Japanese: カォシュン
- Japanese: カオシュン
- Japanese: 打狗
- Japanese: 港都
- Japanese: 高雄市
- Kannada: ಕಾಒಹ್ಸ್ಯುಂಗ್
- Kannada: ಕಾವೊಹ್ಸುಂಗ್ ನಗರ
- Kirghiz: Гаосун
- Korean: 가오슝
- Korean: 가오슝 시
- Korean: 가오슝시
- Korean: 고웅
- Korean: 고웅시
- Korean: 카오슝
- Korean: 카오슝 시
- Ladin: Kaohsiung
- Latvian: Gaosjuna
- Latvian: Gaosjunas speciālā municipalitāte
- Literary Chinese: 高雄市
- Lithuanian: Gaosiongas
- Lithuanian: Gaosiunas
- Lithuanian: Gaosiungas
- Lithuanian: Gaoxiong
- Lithuanian: Kaohsiung
- Luxembourgish: Kaohsiung
- Macedonian: Гаосјунг
- Malay: Kaohsiung
- Malayalam: കൗഷ്യിംഗ്
- Marathi: काऊशुंग शहर
- Min Dong Chinese: Gŏ̤-hṳ̀ng
- Min Nan Chinese: Ko-hiông-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Ko-hiông Chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Kohiongchhi
- Min Nan Chinese: Káng-too
- Min Nan Chinese: Tá-káu
- Min Nan Chinese: Táⁿ-káu
- Min Nan Chinese: 高雄市
- Mingrelian: გაოსიუნი
- Mongolian: Гаошюн
- Norwegian: Kaohsiung
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gaoxiung
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kaohsiung
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gaoxiung
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kaohsiung
- Occitan (post 1500): Gaoxiong
- Occitan (post 1500): Kaohsiung
- Ossetian: Гаосюн
- Panjabi: ਕਾਓਸੀਅੰਗ
- Persian: کائوهسیونگ
- Persian: کاوهسیونگ
- Polish: Gaoxiong
- Polish: Kaohsiung
- Polish: Kaosiung
- Portuguese: Cidade de Kaohsiung
- Portuguese: Gaoxiong
- Portuguese: Kaohsiung
- Portuguese: TW-KHH
- Portuguese: Takao
- Quechua: Kau-hiyun
- Romanian: Kaohsiung
- Russian: Гаосюн
- Russian: Каосюн
- Sakizaya: Takaw
- Scots: Kaohsiung
- Silesian: Kaohsiung
- Sinhala: කාඕසියුන්ග් නගරය
- Sinhala: කොසියුන්ග්
- Slovak: Kao-siung
- Slovak: Kaohsiung
- Somali: Kaohsiung
- Spanish: Gaoxiong
- Spanish: Kao-hiong
- Spanish: Kao hiong
- Spanish: Kaohsiung
- Spanish: Takau
- Swahili: Kaohsiung
- Swedish: Gaoxiong
- Swedish: Kaohsiung
- Tagalog: Kaohsiung
- Tamil: கவஹ்ஸியுங் நகரம்
- Tamil: கோஷிங் நகரம்
- Telugu: కావోోసియంగ్ నగరం
- Telugu: కావోోసియంగ్ సిటీ
- Thai: เกาสง
- Thai: เกาสยง
- Thai: เกาสฺยง
- Tibetan: ཀའོ་ཞུང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Turkish: Kaohsiung
- Uighur: Gawshyung
- Uighur: گاۋشيۇڭ
- Ukrainian: Гаосюн
- Urdu: کائوسیونگ شہر
- Venetian: Kaohsiung
- Vietnamese: Cao Hùng
- Vietnamese: Kaohsiung
- Waray (Philippines): Kaohsiung
- Welsh: Kaohsiung
- Wu Chinese: 打狗
- Wu Chinese: 打鼓
- Wu Chinese: 港都
- Wu Chinese: 高雄
- Wu Chinese: 高雄市
- Yue Chinese: 高雄市
- Zhuang: Gauhyungz
- Gaosyongshih
- Gaoxiongshi
- Kao-hsiung-shih
- 高雄巿
Other Places Named Kaohsiung
Localities in the Area
- Kuè-tshân-á / GuotianzihSuburb
- LindeguanSuburb
- Xinxing DistrictSuburb
- Xingren New VillageLocality
- YamuliaoSuburb
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