Meaning of Hualien | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A county in eastern Taiwan.
2. A city in and the administrative seat of Hualien County, Taiwan.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government.”

“The Mei Lun industrial park near Hualien city in eastern Taiwan offers a good opportunity for local and overseas Chinese businessmen to establish factories.”

“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.”

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