Beigan
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Pei-kan, Peikan
Etymology
From pinyin romanization of Mandarin 北竿 (Běigān).
Proper noun
Beigan
- A rural township in Lienchiang, Taiwan, in the Matsu Islands.
- [1998, Storey, Robert, “Islands of the Taiwan Straits”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 4th edition, →ISBN, OCLC 970524541, OL 8314799M, page 318, column 1:
- PEIKAN TOWNSHIP
(běigān xiāng) 北竿鄉
Peikan Township consists of three groups of islands, of which Peikan (běigān) is the largest and the only one open to visitors.]
- 2017 February 22, Plopsky, Guy, Taiwan’s Cold War Fortresses, The Diplomat, archived from the original on 22 February 2017:
- The Lienchiang County government (which administers Matsu’s 36 islands and islets) estimates that — excluding facilities still in use by Taiwan’s military — some 256 underground fortifications, tunnels, air raid shelters, and other related structures were constructed in Matsu’s four townships: Nangan, Beigan, Juguang, and Dongyin.
- 2021 June 29, Chao, Ching-yu; Evelyn Kao, “Part of Matsu's Liang Island designated national archaeological site”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 29 June 2021, Culture:
- The Ministry of Culture said Tuesday that it has designated four ancient areas of Liang Island in the Matsu archipelago as the Taiwan's 11th national archaeological site. Liang, a 0.35 square kilometer island in the Matsu archipelago off the east coast of China, is part of Beigan Township in Lienchiang County.
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- An island in Beigan, Lienchiang, Taiwan, the main island of the township.
- 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, OCLC 54962554, page 203:
- A paved road leads east from the main settlement of Tangci (Tangqi) Village to Tanghoudao Beach, a spit of sand connecting Beigan's two mountainous island sections.
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Translations
township in Lienchiang (the Matsu Islands), Taiwan (ROC)
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