Pingtung Plain

Pingtung Plain

Pingtung Plain (Chinese: 屏東平原; pinyin: Píngdōng Píngyuán) is a plain area including parts of Pingtung County and Kaohsiung City in Taiwan. It includes the alluvial fan of Kaoping River, which forms the largest drainage area of rivers in Taiwan,^[1] and also passed by other shorter rivers such as Tungkang River, Linbian River and Shihwen River (士文溪). The plain faces the Taiwan Strait on the southwest, lies to the east of Kaohsiung City, and at the west of Central Mountain Range.

References

↑ "Geography: Taiwan". Government Information Office, Republic of China. Retrieved 2008-07-17.

Topography of Taiwan

Mountain ranges	Alishan Range Jialishan Range Central Mountain Range (Chungyang Range) Hai′an Range (Coastal Range) Xueshan Range Yushan Range

Plateaus and hill lands	Hsinchu Hills Linkou Plateau Miaoli Hills Pakua (Bagua) Plateau Taoyuan Plateau Dadu Plateau

Plains	Changhua (Zhanghua) Plain Chianan (Jianan) Plain Huatung (Huadong) Valley Pingtung (Pingdong) Plain Yilan Plain

Basins	Puli Basins Taichung Basin Taipei Basin Taiyuan Basin

Volcano groups	Chilung (Jilong) Volcanoes Tatun Volcanoes

* The place names listed above are mainly romanized as Wade–Giles that used in most of academic articles.

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