Hualien

Hua-lien English Hualien County thumb|Flag of Hualien County Alternative forms en Hua-lien also from _ Wade-Giles en Hualian Pinyin en Hwalien Postal Etymology From en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 花蓮 Hua¹-lien². Pronunciation hwä′lyĕn′Hwalien, Hua-lien, or Hua-lien-kang 819 1 Hwalien, Hua-lien, or Hua-lien-kang (hwä′lyĕn′gäng′), Jap. [Japanese] Karen or Karenko (käʹrānkō), hwä′lēn′Hua-lien 326 2 en Hua lien en Proper noun en county in eastern country/Taiwan. en https://archive.org/details/sunset129sepsout/ October 1962 Foreign Travel : In the Pacific . . . and in Britain . . . some travel bargains Sunset (magazine) Sunset 16 Save some time by flying from Taipei to Hualien (45 minutes) in order to drive part-way along the hand-chiseled East Coast Highway. This road goes through spectacular Taroko Gorge, where marble walls rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the sea. One section goes through 85 tunnels, which have windows cut in the sides to facilitate sightseeing. en https://archive.org/details/sunset129sepsout/ December 1989 That Other China Arthur Zich Connoisseur (magazine) Connoisseur 134-135 The 120-mile East-West Cross-Island Highway, running from just outside Hualien, a city facing the Pacific, across the island's high mountain spine to Tungshih, near Taichung, is on no account to be missed....Midway down the island, the Suao-Hualien Highway dips and snakes for 69 tortuous miles across the face of black-rock cliffs that plunge as much as 2,600 feet into the perpetually raging Pacific. en https://archive.org/details/businessweek200004newy/ October 24, 2000 w:Cheng Yen w:BusinessWeek 72 Cheng Yen begins each day at 3:50 a.m., awakening from a floor mat in her monastery outside Taiwan's mountainous coastal city of Hualien.[...]Her standing in Taiwan is so high that all three presidential candidates in the March election traveled to Hualien to seek her blessing. en Oct 7, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-IUQSaESu0 2020 Citizens Sports Games bring athletes to the beautiful scenery of Hualien 0:00 w:Formosa Television The 2020 Citizens Sports Games are almost here. This year the setting is none other than the beautiful scenery of Hualien.These games for the general public will kick off on Oct. 17 and showcase 28 events over six days. More than 15,000 people are expected to converge on Hualien to watch the action. en September 18, 2022 Austin Ramzy Powerful Earthquake Strikes Taiwan, Killing at Least 1 w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220919091832/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/world/asia/taiwan-earthquake.html 19 September 2022 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific A train derailed and the roof of a platform collapsed at Dongli Station in Hualien County, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan said in a message on Facebook. en April 3, 2024 Ben Blanchard Shanghai and Hong Kong newsrooms Bernard Orr Taiwan hit by strongest quake in 25 years, buildings damaged Tom Hogue; Himani Sarkar; Lincoln Feast w:Reuters https://archive.ph/8T0dw April 3, 2024 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/strong-72-magnitude-earthquake-hits-taipei-2024-04-03/ Asia Pacific Taiwan television stations showed footage of buildings at precarious angles in the sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, near the quake's epicentre.Taiwan's Central Weather Administration said the earthquake registered the second-highest intensity of an "Upper 6" in Hualien county, on the 1-7 intensity scale. en en city in and the administrative seat of county/Hualien County country/Taiwan. en September 14, 1946 Aluminium in Formosa https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.232086/page/307/ The Chemical Age London LV 1420 327 https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.232086/page/327/ The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-07-29_20_29/ July 29, 1979 Industrial park to aid progress in E. Taiwan Free China Weekly XX 29 Taipei 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-07-29_20_29/page/n3/ The Mei Lun industrial park near Hualien city in eastern Taiwan offers a good opportunity for local and overseas Chinese businessmen to establish factories. en April 3, 2021 w:Ivan Watson https://web.archive.org/web/20210404164044/https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/asia/taiwan-train-derail-intl-hnk/index.html Passenger train carrying 490 derails in Taiwan, killing at least 50 and injuring dozens 0:19 w:CNN There was a 408 train headed down the east side of Taiwan, uh, north of the city of Hualien, and what apparently happened is, judging by some of the aerial images we've seen, some kind of a vehicle was on a road above the railroad, as it was coming along a steep mountain, a coastline, and some kind of construction truck skidded down the side of this mountain close to the railroad tracks, and the train hit it. en Translations a county and a city in Taiwan Amis: ami Kalingko Chinese: Cantonese: yue 花蓮 faa1 lin4 Hokkien: nan-hbl 花蓮 Hoa-liân Mandarin: cmn 花蓮 Huālián Hindi: hi हुआलियेन Japanese: ja 花蓮 かれん, Karen Korean: ko ^화롄 Russian: ru Хуаля́нь m Vietnamese: vi Hoa Liên References Further reading Hualien, Hua-lien, Hualian en 1998 Hualien Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1321 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1321/ 1 French fr: Pronunciation [H:[H],u:ou,e:e_] Proper noun fr city c/Taiwan Hualien German de: Proper noun toponym de city c/Taiwan Hualien Spanish es: Proper noun es city c/Taiwan Hualien