Magong, Taiwan

Makung 馬公
—  County-controlled city  —
Magong City · 馬公市
Makung
Makung Location in the Republic of China
Coordinates: 23°34′N 119°35′E
Country	Taiwan
Region	Eastern Taiwan
Area
• Total	33.9918 km2 (13.1243 sq mi)
Population (January 2009)
• Total	56,435
• Density	1,700/km2 (4,300/sq mi)
Website	www.mkcity.gov.tw

Magong, Taiwan
Traditional Chinese	馬公
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Mǎgōng - Tongyong Pinyin Mǎgong - Wade–Giles Ma-kung Min - Hokkien POJ Má-keng

Makung (Chinese: 馬公, pinyin: Mǎgōng) is the county seat of Penghu, in Taiwan Province, Taiwan (Republic of China). Makung is on the western part of the main Penghu Island.

The earliest temple in the country to the goddess Matsu is found on Magong. Magong is therefore also known as "Magong Ao" (馬宮澳 or originally, 媽宮澳), or "Matsu Palace Seaport". The first character of the name was changed from "mother" (媽, mā) to "horse" (馬, mǎ) in 1920 under the Japanese Occupation. There had been proposal from the Executive Yuan to revert the character, but there was little support.

Mako was a major base for the Imperial Japanese Navy and embarkation point for the invasion of the Philippines.

It contains a domestic Magong Airport.

Administration

Makung City contains 34 municipal villages (里 li):

(Romanizations are in Hanyu Pinyin)

• Chang-an (長安里)
• Fuxing (復興里)
• Xinfu (新復里)
• Zhongyang (中央里)
• Qiming (啟明里)
• Chongqing (重慶里)
• Guangfu (光復里)
• Zhongxing (中興里)
• Guangming (光明里)
• Guangrong (光榮里)
• Chongguang (重光里)
• Xiwei (西衛里)
• Chaoyang (朝陽里)
• Yangming (陽明里)
• Xiwen (西文里)
• Dongwen (東文里)
• Anshan (案山里)
• Guanghua (光華里)
• Qianliao (前寮里)
• Shiquan (石泉里)
• Caiyuan (菜園里)
• Dongwei (東衛里)
• Anzhe (安宅里)
• Wukan (烏崁里)
• Xingren (興仁里)
• Tiexian (鐵線里)
• Suogang (鎖港里)
• Wude (五德里)
• Shanshui (山水里)
• Jing-an (井垵里)
• Shili (時里奇)
• Fenggui (風櫃里)
• Fujing (虎井里)
• Tongpan (桶盤里)

External links

• Official website (in Traditional Chinese)
  • [1] (English)
  • Village division map (in Traditional Chinese)
• Airport