Yushan
Yushan, also known as Jade Mountain or Mt. Jade, at 3952m, is the highest mountain in Taiwan. It has also been claimed to be the tallest mountain in East Asia, but this depends on how one defines "East Asia".Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: 神武禦皇, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Yushan East Peak
Peak
Photo: Peellden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yushan East Peak is a mountain of the Yushan Range located in the Yushan National Park.
Yushan
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,952 metres
- Description: highest mountain in Taiwan
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Xinyi Township, Nantou County, Taiwan Province, Central Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.47° or 23° 28' 12" northLongitude
120.9573° or 120° 57' 26" eastElevation
3,952 metres (12,966 feet)Open Location Code
7QM2FX94+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 3428095932OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
1665181Wikidata ID
Q500275Yushan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Yushan
- Arabic: يو شان
- Armenian: Յուշան
- Belarusian: Гара Юйшань
- Belarusian: Юйшань
- Breton: Yu Shan
- Catalan: Yushan
- Cebuano: Yu Shan
- Chinese: Gio̍k-san
- Chinese: Yü Shan
- Chinese: 摩里遜山
- Chinese: 新高山
- Chinese: 玉山
- Chinese: 玉山主峰
- Chinese: 磨利生山
- Chinese: 馬禮遜山
- Czech: Ju-šan
- Czech: Ju Šan
- Czech: Jü-šan
- Czech: Nejvyšší hora Tchaj-wanu
- Czech: Niitakajama
- Dutch: Yu Shan
- Dutch: Yushan
- Egyptian Arabic: جبل ياوشان
- English: Gyokuzan
- English: Jade Mountain
- English: Kanasi
- English: Mount Morrison
- English: Mount Yu
- English: Mt. Jade
- English: Mt. Morrison
- English: Patungkuonʉ
- English: Saviah
- English: Savih
- English: Tanungu'incu
- English: Tongku Saveq
- English: Usaviah
- English: Yu Shan
- English: Yushan Main Peak
- Esperanto: Jadmonto
- Estonian: Yushan
- Finnish: Yu Shan
- French: Yu Shan
- French: montagne de Jade
- Galician: Yu Shan
- German: Jadeberg
- German: Niitaka
- German: Niitakayama
- German: Yu Shan
- German: Yui Shan
- German: Yushan
- German: Yùi Shān
- German: Yü Shan
- Greek: Γιου-Σαν
- Hakka Chinese: Ngiu̍k-Sân
- Hausa: Ngiu̍k-Sân
- Hebrew: יושאן
- Indonesian: Yushan
- Italian: Yu Shan
- Japanese: ニイタカヤマ
- Japanese: モリソン山
- Japanese: ユイシャン
- Japanese: 新高山
- Japanese: 玉山
- Japanese: 玉山国家公園
- Javanese: Yushan
- Kalaallisut: Yushan
- Korean: 위 산
- Korean: 위산
- Korean: 위산 산
- Ladin: Yushan
- Literary Chinese: Jade Mountain
- Literary Chinese: 玉山
- Lithuanian: Jušanas
- Macedonian: Јушан
- Min Nan Chinese: Gio̍k-san
- Min Nan Chinese: Gio̍k-soaⁿ
- Mingrelian: იუშანი
- Mongolian: Юйшань
- Moroccan Arabic: يو شان
- Norwegian: Yushan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Yushan
- Paiwan: Kanasi
- Persian: یوشان
- Polish: Jü-szan
- Polish: Yu Shan
- Portuguese: Montanha de Jade
- Portuguese: Yu Shan
- Russian: Ниитака
- Russian: Юйшань
- Russian: Юшань
- Spanish: Yu Shan
- Swahili: Jade
- Swedish: Niitaka
- Swedish: Yu Shan
- Swedish: Yushan
- Tamil: யு சான்
- Thai: ยฺวี่ชาน
- Turkish: Yushan
- Ukrainian: Юйшань
- Venetian: Yu Shan
- Vietnamese: Ngọc Sơn
- Vietnamese: Núi Ngọc Sơn
- Vietnamese: Yushan
- Waray (Philippines): Yushan
- Wu Chinese: Jade Mountain
- Wu Chinese: 玉山
- Yue Chinese: Jade Mountain
- Yue Chinese: Yuk San
- Yue Chinese: Yushan
- Yue Chinese: 玉山
- Hsin-kao Shan
- Mount Niitaka
- Wang Shan
Other Places Named Yushan
In the Area
Yushan is situated close to the localities Batongguan and Duiguan.
- GuangaoLocality
- ShangdongbuHamlet
- ShalixianLocality
- LeLeLocality
- 秀姑坪Locality
- KaigaoxiangHamlet
Popular Destinations in Nantou County
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Yushan. Photo: 神武禦皇, CC BY-SA 4.0.