The Geography of Taiwan explained

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:46 The Mountains
6:08 The Coast

The Geography of Taiwan is one of extremes. The geologically young island is dominated by a massive temperate mountain range, which covers the eastern two thirds of Taiwan. This fortes is opposed by the low-lying fertile plains of the west coast, which also accommodates some of the most modern and futuristic cities in the world.

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[denzelurieta]

Been to Taiwan last week and I really thought that its geology is interesting — lots of the rock formations are exposed as though it recently sprung up. Glad to stumble upon this video! Great work in simplifying these concepts

[johngraves]

Beautiful. Taiwan has always been a bit of a mystery.

[someguy]

Beautiful country, I visited some years ago. Highly recommend. The mountains make the whole country very scenic. Do the Caucasus next :)

[lil----lil]

It has earthquakes and hurricanes _frequently_ yet it produces the most advanced CHIPS in the world
It is a small island yet it holds its ground against a big bully Winnie Xitler 50x its size!
It has a relatively small population yet its GDP is ranked #20th in the world!
It's not easy to being Taiwan!

[botortamas]

Had no idea Taiwan was so mountainous. Great videos wish they were longer 👍

[mwdfinch]

I live in TW. Great video! i learned a few things.

[TheECSH]

Timing could not have been better! I just arrived in Taiwan yesterday!

[BeefSalad]

Such a high quality channel. Keep it up man

[nicoleoh]

I'm proud to be a Taiwanese and proud of my country Taiwan.

[Chris.in.taiwan]

What's so interesting about Taiwan is that there used to be serveal cross Island highways. One of them, the 知本林道 once connected Pingtung in the west with Taidong in the east. This road was developed by the Japanese during the 1930s. Once there were actually vehicles able to pass through. Now very little is left, and the road has been mostly forgotten. Still, japanese artifacts like bottles and other items can still be found in the mountains.

[劉子立-ld]

Thank you for bringing Taiwan to the world, our homeland is very beautiful.

[dplanet]

From up the sky, (from a satellite) the island looks like a leaf🍃 Beautiful.

[林文良-oo]

What a complete and understandable introduction of TAIWAN.

[Swampy]

I hope to one day visit this beautiful island, and be able to learn more about the Taiwanese culture.

[ako]

YES, TAIWAN MENTIONED!!! 💪💪💪💪💪💪
TOP research and editing as always

[LipiokTan]

A few corrections:
3:58 雪山山脈 should be either spelled "Hsueh Shan Range" or "Xueshan Range", "Xiashan" is incorrect.
4:47 Taiwan's de facto first level of subdivision are municipalities, cities, and counties. Province is now "frozen" and not in use in daily life. The three counties in the east are Yilan County, Hualien County, and Taitung County from north to south.
8:16 "Hehuanshan" (合歡山) misspelled without an n after the first a.
8:21 Usually "Taiwan Strait" instead of "Taiwanese Strait".
8:56 "Jianan Basin" or "Jianan Plain" (嘉南平原), "jia" was mispronounced as "yah" instead of sounding something like "dja" as in "jar".
9:03 The definition of Pingtung Plain was wrongly stretched across the Gaoping River. Jianan plain continues until it hits the border of Pingtung County. I never heard that the division was between Zengwen River.

[Jimmy-fprq]

Awesome video. Thank you for making this.

[gabrieleboh]

I discovered this channel some weeks ago and I've already binged watched every video. Phisical geography videos aren't so common. Furthermore, they are so high quality and even the visual part is so good.
Really appreciate these videos.

PS: I hope one day there will be a video about the Alps geography

[perzik]

What a nice video, love how detailed it was. Thanks a lot!

[jericogarcia]

i love and support the coutry of taiwan 🤟😎💗🔥