Yilan City ( Mandarin pinyin : Yílán Shì ; Hokkien POJ : Gî-lân-chhī ) is a county-administered city and the county seat of Yilan County , Taiwan . The city lies on the north side of the Lanyang River .
7-466: The Yilan Plain in which the city is located has historically been referred to as Kapalan ( Chinese : 蛤仔難 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Kap-á-lān ), Kapsulan ( 蛤仔蘭 ; Kap-chú-lân ; also 甲子蘭), Komalan ( 噶瑪蘭 ; Kat-má-lán ), etc. These names, as well as that of Yilan itself, were given to the sites by the Kavalan tribe of Taiwanese aborigines . Later arrivals included Han Chinese settlers during
14-553: A humid subtropical climate ( Köppen : Cfa ) with mild winters and hot, humid summers. Yilan City consists of 38 villages and 478 neighborhoods, including: Yilan City is accessible by Yilan Station of the Taiwan Railways . Yilan City became a sister city of Rockville , Maryland , in 2019. The relationship gained notoriety as diplomats from the Embassy of China, Washington, D.C. , unsuccessfully attempted to scuttle
21-530: The handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945, Yilan City was created in January 1946 as a county-administered city the county seat of the newly created Yilan County and continued to become the political, economical and cultural centers of the region. Yilan City is located on Lanyang Plain with an average altitude of 7.38 meters above sea level. Yilan City experiences
28-519: The Qing dynasty in China (1802) and settlers from Okinawa during Taiwan's Japanese era (1895–1945). In 1810 under Qing dynasty rule , a formal administration office was established at Wuwei (五圍) and "Komalan Subprefecture" ( 噶瑪蘭廳 ; Kat-má-lán Thiaⁿ ) was at the present day location of Yilan City. Construction of the city wall was completed a year later. After a few years once the basic infrastructure
35-611: The agreement. Yilan Plain Yilan Plain ( Chinese : 宜蘭平原 ; pinyin : Yilán Píngyuán ), also called the Lanyang Plain ( 蘭陽平原 ), or historically Kabalan ( Chinese : 蛤仔難 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Kap-á-lān ), Kapsulan ( 蛤仔蘭 ; Kap-chú-lân ), Komalan ( 噶瑪蘭 ; Kat-má-lán ), is a plain in Yilan County , Taiwan . The plain has an alluvial fan which formed by Lanyang River . The plain
42-518: Was formed in the shape of nearly equilateral triangle. The broad and flat feature of this plan has made transportation so convenient in the region which drew large population to the towns and cities in the area. The plain was inhabited by the Kavalans , an aboriginal group which mostly had migrated to southern places such as Hualien and Taitung . This article about a location in Taiwan
49-406: Was ready, the city assumed the political, economical, cultural and educational center for the Lanyang Plain . In 1878, Komalan was a large rice production area commonly called Kapsulan , and became a district called Gilan Hsien . It was one of the three new districts that constituted the new Taipeh Prefecture . According to the 1904 census, the population of Giran town was about 15,000. After
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