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Hwalien

Hwalien is the alternative form of Hualien.

Meaning of Hualien

Proper noun

Hualien

  1. A county in eastern Taiwan.
    • Save some time by flying from Taipei to Hualien (45 minutes) in order to drive part-way along the hand-chiseled East Coast Highway. This road goes through spectacular Taroko Gorge, where marble walls rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the sea. One section goes through 85 tunnels, which have...1962 October, “Foreign Travel : In the Pacific . . . and in Britain . . . some travel bargains”, in Sunset, page 16
  2. A city in and the administrative seat of Hualien County, Taiwan.
    • The industry is centred in Kaohsiung and Hualien, and "after the Japanese surrender the factories were taken over by the Chinese Government.1946 September 14, “Aluminium in Formosa”, in The Chemical Age, volume LV, number 1420, London, page 327

Questions about Hwalien

What is Hwalien the alternative form of?
Hwalien is the alternative form of Hualien.

Words near Hwalien in the dictionary

  1. Hwaian
  2. Hwainan
  3. Hwaining
  4. hwair
  5. hwairs
  6. Hwalien
  7. hwamei
  8. hwameis
  9. Hwamyeong
  10. hwan
  11. Hwang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hwalien (page history and authors); Hualien (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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