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Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, shares the grounds of the National Theater and Concert Hall and is one the city's defining landmarks.


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The Grand Hotel is an iconic landmark in Taipei City, Taiwan, and has played host to many foreign dignitaries that have visited Taipei.

Photo credit: Liyu


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Chen Cheng-po was a Taiwanese painter whose oil painting Street of Chiayi was the first painting of a Taiwanese artist displayed in the Empire Art Exhibition in Japan. Chen was captured and killed by the Kuomintang government as a result of the 228 Incident.

Illustration credit: Chen Cheng-po


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The view of the Alishan National Scenic Area from the peak of the mountain in Chiayi County.

Photo credit: User:Taiwantaffy


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The East Gate of the historical walled city of Taipei

Photo credit: User:Jiang


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A true-color satellite image of Taiwan taken by NASA's Terra satellite.

Photo credit: NASA


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Jingtong Station at the end of the Pingsi Line.

Photo credit: User:Loren36


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Ximending shopping district at night in Wanhua, Taipei.

Photo credit: User:Liftarn


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Totem pole
Totem pole
The Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village in Yuchi, Nantou is a theme park opened in 1986 that has the tallest free-fall ride, largest European garden and bell tower in Taiwan.

Photo credit: Bernard Gagnon


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Fort Zeelandia
Fort Zeelandia
Fort Zeelandia in Anping, Tainan was built by the Dutch East India Company in 1624 but was laid siege 38 years later by Koxinga resulting in the Dutch surrender and end of Dutch colonization of Taiwan.

Photo credit: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas


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Yehliu
Yehliu
Yehliu in Wanli, New Taipei is a Miocene formation stretching 1,700 meters into the Ocean resulting from geological forces pushing the Datun Mountains out of the sea.

Photo credit: User:Chensiyuan


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Sun Moon Lake
Sun Moon Lake
Sun Moon Lake in Yuchi, Nantou is a tourist attration that has the largest body of water in Taiwan and is home to the Thao aborigines.

Photo credit: Bernard Gagnon


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Alishan Station
Alishan Station
Alishan Station in Alishan, Chiayi is part of an 86 km network of narrow gauge railway built by the Japanese in 1912 for logging but is now a tourist attraction operated by Alishan Forest Railway.

Photo credit: Jāzeps Baško


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Taipei 101
Taipei 101
Taipei 101 in Xinyi, Taipei was the tallest building in the world in 2004 until the Burj Khalifa was opened in Dubai in 2009.

Photo credit: User:peellden


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Holy Rosary Cathedral
Holy Rosary Cathedral
The Holy Rosary Cathedral in Lingya, Kaohsiung is the oldest Catholic church in Taiwan, established in 1860 and rebuilt in 1928.

Photo credit: User:小鄧


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