Taoyuan Plateau

Taoyuan Plateau (Chinese: 桃園台地; pinyin: Táoyuán Táidì) is a plateau located at the Taoyuan City, Taiwan. It faces the Linkou Plateau on the northeast, the Hsuehshan Range on the southeast, the Hsinchu Hills on the south, and the Taiwan Strait on the west. In order to irrigate this area, there are many artificial pools located around the plateau. It is an industrial region of modern Taiwan. The population is about 2 million.^[1]

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↑ http://www.afita.org/graph/web_structure/files/Seminar%20(06)-02(1).pdf

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 (Xinzhu) 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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Taoyuan Plateau

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