City
Kaohsiung
Taiwan
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Dragon and Tiger Pagodas; Spring and Autumn Pavilions; Love River; Sky Tower; Kaohsiung Harbor and the Taiwan Strait; Kaohsiung Music Center; lush southern subtropical Taiwanese flora; Taoist-Buddhist
- Viewpoint
- Favor the classic viewpoint looking across the lotus-covered waters of Lotus Pond toward the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas and zigzag bridge with Mount Shoushan in the background, showing lotus leaves and water lilies in the foreground, the calm water reflections, colorful pagoda towers, and dragon-tiger sculptures in the middle-ground, and the lush forested ridge of Mount Shoushan and 85 Sky Tower fading in the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the vast lotus pads of Lotus Pond, lush banyan and bamboo forests of Mount Shoushan, and weeping willows along the Love River.
- Guarded against
- Not Taipei, Taichung, or Tainan
Population2,737,660Wikidata: 2,734,275
Coordinates22.62°N, 120.31°E
Elevation9 m
Area2,952 km²
Time zoneAsia/TaipeiUTC+8
Solar noon11:59clock runs 0.0 h behind the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Kaohsiung and you surface nearest to Loma Plata, Paraguay — 31 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Tainan | TW | 42 km |
| Taichung | TW | 174 km |
| New Taipei City | TW | 295 km |
| Taipei | TW | 297 km |
| Jinjiang | CN | 302 km |
| Xiamen | CN | 307 km |
| Quanzhou | CN | 309 km |
| Putian | CN | 340 km |
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