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Hualien

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Hualien or Hua-lien (hwä`lyĕn`), city (1995 pop. 108,192), E central Taiwan. One of Taiwan's most important international ports, it is a market for local agricultural products. It is located in a volcanic region and is susceptible to earthquakes.
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More than 3,000 residents in Pingtung county in south Taiwan and almost 2,000 people in neighbouring Kaohsiung county have left their homes, while the rest were evacuated in east Taiwan's Yilan, Hualien and Taitung counties.
Taiwan evacuates over 6,000 as typhoon lingers by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
The deadly typhoon has already claimed 23 lives in China and four lives in the Philippines and in Taiwan's Hualien region, causing the worst flooding in the island in half a century.
"Typhoon Morakot" devastates Eastern China, Taiwan coastline, one ... by Asian News International
Morakot made landfall around midnight Friday in the eastern county of Hualien, unleashing powerful winds that swayed high-rise buildings, turned over cars and uprooted trees and road signs.
Taiwan suffers worst flooding in 50 years by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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