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County-administeredcityinTaiwanProvince,RepublicofChinaHualienCity(pinyin:HuāliánShì;Wade-Giles:Hua¹-lien²Shih⁴;HokkienPOJ:Hoa-lian-chhīorHoa-liân-chhī)isacounty-administeredcityandthecountyseatofHualienCounty,Taiwan.ItislocatedontheeastcoastofTaiwanonthePacificOcean,andhasapopulationof99,458inhabitants.[3]HualienCountyannals(花蓮縣志)recordthatthecitywascalled"Kilai"(Chinese:奇萊;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Kî-lâi)untiltheearlytwentiethcentury.ThisnamereferstotheSakirayaTaiwaneseaboriginesandtheirsettlement...
County-administered city in Taiwan Province, Republic of China
Hualien City (pinyin: Huālián Shì; Wade-Giles: Hua¹-lien² Shih⁴; Hokkien POJ: Hoa-lian-chhī or Hoa-liân-chhī) is a county-administered city and the county seat of Hualien County, Taiwan. It is located on the east coast of Taiwan on the Pacific Ocean, and has a population of 99,458 inhabitants.[3]
Hualien County annals (花蓮縣志) record that the city was called "Kilai" (Chinese: 奇萊; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kî-lâi) until the early twentieth century. This name refers to the Sakiraya Taiwanese aborigines and their settlement.[4]
After Taiwan came under Japanese rule in 1895 its governors sought to change the name because "Kilai" is pronounced the same as the Japanese word for "dislike" (嫌い, kirai). The name was eventually changed to Karen Harbour (Japanese: 花蓮港, Hepburn: Karenkō). After World War II the incoming Kuomintang-led Republic of China retained the Kanji spelling but shortened the name to just Karen (花蓮), or Hua...