T’ao-yüan
county, Taiwan
T’ao-yüan, former county (hsien, or xian), northern Taiwan. In 2014 it was combined administratively with the municipality of T’ao-yüan (the former county seat) to form a special municipality with the status of a county. The special municipality is bordered by the special municipality of New Taipei City to the north, by the counties of I-lan (Yilan) to the east and Hsin-chu (Xinzhu) to the south, and by the Taiwan Strait to the west. Ranges of...