# Eight Views of Taiwan

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Taroko Gorge

**The Eight Views of Taiwan** ([Chinese](/source/Traditional_Chinese_characters): 臺灣八景) have been variously defined throughout [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan)'s history.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## Qing Dynasty

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## Under Japanese occupation

In 1927 (during the [Japanese occupation](/source/Taiwan_under_Japanese_occupation) of Taiwan), the newspaper *Taiwan Nichinichi Shimpō* ([Japanese](/source/Japanese_language): 臺灣日日新報) elected the Eight Views of Taiwan according to its readers' votes as:

- Rising Sun Hill ([旭岡](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%AD%E5%B2%A1)), now [Sun Yat-sen Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sun_Yat-sen_Park,_Keelung&action=edit&redlink=1), [Keelung](/source/Keelung)

- [Tamsui](/source/Tamsui)

- [Eight Immortals Mountain](/source/Eight_Immortals_Mountain)

- [Sun Moon Lake](/source/Sun_Moon_Lake)

- [Alishan](/source/Alishan_Range)

- [Monkey Mountain](/source/Shoushan_(Kaohsiung))

- [Cape Eluanbi](/source/Cape_Eluanbi)

- [Taroko](/source/Taroko_National_Park)

## Republic of China

After the retrocession of Taiwan to the [Republic of China](/source/Republic_of_China), the [Taiwan Provincial Government](/source/Taiwan_Provincial_Government) defined the Eight Views of Taiwan in 1953 as follows:

- [Sun Moon Lake](/source/Sun_Moon_Lake)

- [Yushan](/source/Yushan_(mountain))

- [Fort Zeelandia](/source/Fort_Zeelandia_(Taiwan))

- [Alishan](/source/Alishan_Range)

- [Yangmingshan](/source/Yangmingshan)

- [Taroko](/source/Taroko_National_Park)

- [Qingshui Cliff](/source/Qingshui_Cliff)

- [Penghu Islands](/source/Penghu)

In 2005, an updated version of the Eight Views of Taiwan was published by the [ROC](/source/Republic_of_China) [Ministry of Transportation and Communications](/source/Ministry_of_Transportation_and_Communications_(Taiwan)):

- [Taipei 101](/source/Taipei_101)

- [National Palace Museum](/source/National_Palace_Museum)

- [Sun Moon Lake](/source/Sun_Moon_Lake)

- [Alishan](/source/Alishan_Range)

- [Yushan](/source/Yushan_(mountain))

- [Kaohsiung](/source/Kaohsiung) [Love River](/source/Love_River)

- [Kenting](/source/Kenting)

- [Taroko](/source/Taroko_National_Park)

## References

## See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Eight Views of Taiwan](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eight_Views_of_Taiwan).

- [Eight Views](/source/Eight_Views) in China, Japan and Korea

- [Eight Views of Xiaoxiang](/source/Eight_Views_of_Xiaoxiang)

- Eight Views of [Jinzhou (Dalian)](/source/Jinzhou_(Dalian))

- Eight Views of [Lushun South Road](/source/Lushun_South_Road), [Dalian](/source/Dalian)

- [Eight Views of Omi](/source/Eight_Views_of_Omi), Japan

- [Eight Views of Korea](/source/Eight_Views_of_Korea)

- [Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji](/source/Thirty-six_Views_of_Mount_Fuji), by [Hokusai](/source/Hokusai) and [Hiroshige](/source/Hiroshige)

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