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Magong
馬公市 | |
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 View of Siying Rainbow Bridge and Penghu area in Magong | |
 Seal | |
  Magong Location in the Republic of China | |
| Coordinates: 23°34′N 119°35′E / 23.567°N 119.583°E | |
| Country | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| Province | Taiwan Province (streamlined) |
| County | Penghu County |
| Area | |
| • Total | 33.9918 km2 (13.1243 sq mi) |
| Population (December 2014) | |
| • Total | 60,335 |
| • Density | 1,800/km2 (4,600/sq mi) |
| Website | www.mkcity.gov.tw |
| Magong | |||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬公 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马公 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Horse Lord | ||||||||||||||
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| Port Magong | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 媽宮澳 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 妈宫澳 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Port of the Mother's Palace | ||||||||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||||||
| Kanji | 馬公 | ||||||||||||||
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Magong, formerly romanized as Makung, is a county-controlled city and seat of Penghu, Taiwan.
Name
The settlement's temple honoring the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, the deified form of the medieval Fujianese shamaness Lin Moniang, is usually accounted the oldest in all of Taiwan and Penghu.[1] The town was originally named Makeng (Chinese: 媽宮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-keng; lit. 'mother's palace') but was changed to Makō (馬公) during Japanese rule in 1920,[citation needed] and was the center of the Mako Guard District.
After 1945, the Wade-Giles romanization Makung was used. Taiwan officially adopted Hanyu Pinyin in 2009, leading to the romanization Magong.
History
Qing Dynasty
The island's Mazu temple was erected in the late 16th or early 17th century. The city Magong'ao began to grow around 1887, during the Qing Empire's Guangxu Era.
Japanese Empire
Under Japanese rule, the settlement was renamed Makō and organized as a subprefecture of Hōko. The area was a major base of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was an embarkation point for the invasion of the Philippines during the Second World War.
Republic of China
On 25 December 1981, Makung was upgraded from an urban township to be a county-controlled city.
Administration
Magong City contains 33 municipal villages (里 li):
- (Romanizations are in Hanyu Pinyin)
- Fuxing (復興里)
- Chang'an (長安里)
- Zhongyang (中央里)
- Qiming (啟明里)
- Chongqing (重慶里)
- Zhongxing (中興里)
- Guangfu (光復里)
- Guangming (光明里)
- Guangrong (光榮里)
- Chaoyang (朝陽里)
- Yangming (陽明里)
- Chongguang (重光里)
- Xiwei (西衛里)
- Xiwen (西文里)
- Dongwen (東文里)
- Anshan (案山里)
- Guanghua (光華里)
- Qianliao (前寮里)
- Shiquan (石泉里)
- Caiyuan (菜園里)
- Dongwei (東衛里)
- Anzhe (安宅里)
- Xingren (興仁里)
- Wukan (烏崁里)
- Tiexian (鐵線里)
- Suogang (鎖港里)
- Shanshui (山水里)
- Wude (五德里)
- Jing'an (井垵里)
- Shili (時里奇)
- Fenggui (風櫃里)
- Hujing (虎井里)
- Tongpan (桶盤里)
Government institutions
Education
Energy
The city is powered up by the Hujing Power Plant located at Table Island.
Climate
| Climate data for Magong City（1981 to 2010） | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 25.5 (77.9) |
27.8 (82.0) |
30.1 (86.2) |
35.3 (95.5) |
38.9 (102.0) |
39.5 (103.1) |
40.0 (104.0) |
39.8 (103.6) |
39.2 (102.6) |
37.6 (99.7) |
34.4 (93.9) |
30.0 (86.0) |
40.0 (104.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 19.3 (66.7) |
19.6 (67.3) |
22.4 (72.3) |
26.0 (78.8) |
28.8 (83.8) |
30.6 (87.1) |
32.0 (89.6) |
31.8 (89.2) |
30.7 (87.3) |
28.1 (82.6) |
24.8 (76.6) |
21.1 (70.0) |
26.3 (79.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
15.4 (59.7) |
17.4 (63.3) |
20.9 (69.6) |
23.7 (74.7) |
25.6 (78.1) |
26.6 (79.9) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.9 (78.6) |
23.9 (75.0) |
20.9 (69.6) |
17.4 (63.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 4.4 (39.9) |
5.3 (41.5) |
8.2 (46.8) |
11.1 (52.0) |
15.4 (59.7) |
20.3 (68.5) |
22.7 (72.9) |
22.6 (72.7) |
21.8 (71.2) |
19.6 (67.3) |
14.3 (57.7) |
7.1 (44.8) |
4.4 (39.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 21.9 (0.86) |
50.2 (1.98) |
52.9 (2.08) |
92.4 (3.64) |
123.2 (4.85) |
164.1 (6.46) |
131.6 (5.18) |
170.8 (6.72) |
74.2 (2.92) |
26.1 (1.03) |
20.1 (0.79) |
23.5 (0.93) |
951.0 (37.44) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 80.5 | 82.4 | 83.1 | 83.4 | 84.5 | 86.6 | 85.1 | 85.5 | 81.2 | 78.1 | 78.0 | 78.7 | 82.3 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 112.9 | 96.7 | 124.7 | 157.2 | 172.5 | 199.6 | 260.8 | 240.1 | 225.3 | 183.9 | 131.1 | 117.3 | 2,022.1 |
| Source: 中央氣象局 | |||||||||||||
Tourist attractions
- Central Street
- Mazu Temple
- Chang Yu-sheng Memorial Museum
- First Guesthouse
- Four-eyed Well
- Jinguitou Fortress
- Ocean Resources Museum
- Penghu Living Museum
Transportation
It contains the domestic Magong Airport and Magong Harbor.
Notable natives
- Chang Yu-sheng, former singer, composer and producer
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Magong City, Penghu County.
- Magong City Office, Penghu County Template:En icon
- Magong Airport WebSite Template:En icon
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