Donggang River (Taiwan)

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Donggang River
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Donggang River in Taiwan
Country Taiwan
Physical characteristics
River mouth South China Sea: Donggang, Pingtung
22°28′05″N120°26′13″E / 22.468°N 120.437°E / 22.468; 120.437 Coordinates: 22°28′05″N120°26′13″E / 22.468°N 120.437°E / 22.468; 120.437
Length 44 km (27 mi)
Basin features
Basin size 472 km2 (182 sq mi)

The Donggang River (Chinese :東港溪; pinyin :Dōnggǎng Xī; Wade–Giles :Tung1-kang3 Hsi1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī :Tang-káng-khoe) is a river in Taiwan. It flows through Pingtung County for 44 km. [1] [2]

Chinese language family of languages

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

Hanyu Pinyin, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

Wade–Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's Chinese–English Dictionary of 1892.

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References

  1. "Geography & demographics". The Republic of China Yearbook 2015. Executive Yuan. 2015. pp. 40–53. ISBN   978-986-04-6013-1.
  2. "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 1 May 2016.