Kaohsiung

(Pinyin) Gao·xiong

[gou-shyoong]

noun

Wade-Giles.

1. a seaport on southwestern Taiwan.

Kaohsiung

/ ˈkaʊˈʃjʊŋ /

noun

1. Japanese name: Takao. a port in SW Taiwan, on the South China Sea: the chief port of the island. Pop: 1 506 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Born in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, Tai has been struggling with injuries since last year and unable to return to the international circuit.

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Now the group has a semester-long course at a community college in Kaohsiung, in addition to their lectures all across Taiwan, from fishing villages to community centers.

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With the island’s major ports at Taipei and Kaohsiung facing the Taiwan Straits, any American warships trying to break that embargo would face a lethal swarm of nuclear submarines, jet aircraft and ship-killing missiles.

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He lost to Tsai 57% to 38%, shortly after which he lost his job as mayor of the major southern port city of Kaohsiung in a recall election.

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Shi Ming-teh was born on Jan. 15, 1941 in Kaohsiung, a port city in southern Taiwan.

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