The Taichung Basin () is located in the central region of western
Taiwan. It occupies some parts of
Taichung City
Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Tai ...
,
Nantou County and
Changhua County. The basin borders the
Choshui River in the south; the hill lands of Nantou in the east; the
Tatu Plateau
The Dadu Plateau (), also known as Dadu Mountain or Dadushan (), is a plateau that stretches across Taichung, Taiwan. It borders the Taichung Basin in the east and the seacoast of Taichung in the west, and lies between the Dajia River and the Dad ...
in the northwest; and the
Pakua Plateau
The Pakua Plateau or Bagua Plateau (), also known as the Pakua Mountain Range (), is a plateau located in central-western Taiwan. It stretches across Changhua County and Nantou County. The plateau borders the Changhua Plain in the west and the Tai ...
in the southwest. A notch connecting the Taichung Basin to the seacoast of Taichung City stretches between the two plateaus.
Panoramic photography
See also
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Geography of Taiwan
Drainage basins of Taiwan
Landforms of Nantou County
Landforms of Taichung
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