T’ai-chung

T’ai-chung, former county (hsien, or xian), west-central Taiwan. Since 2010 it has been incorporated administratively into the T’ai-chung special municipality, The enlarged special municipality is bordered by the counties of Miao-li (Miaoli) to the north, I-lan (Yilan) and Hua-lien (Hualian) to the east, and Chang-hua (Zhanghua) and Nan-t’ou (Nantou) to the south and by the Taiwan Strait to the west. Northern extensions of the Chung-yang (Zhongyang) Range rise to elevations between 8,000 and 13,000 feet...