Fortress
Iron Fort
🇹🇼 Taiwan
The Iron Fort (traditional Chinese: 鐵堡; simplified Chinese: 铁堡; pinyin: Tiě Bǎo) is a former fort in Ren'ai Village, Nangan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.
The fort was originally constructed as the training base for the amphibious forces.
The fort was constructed at the southern coast of Nangan Island on an offshore rock. The middle of the rock was excavated to form a tunnel which houses various military equipment and accommodation facilities. The granite building is painted with camouflage paint.
Text adapted from “Iron Fort” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iron Fort ranks #7,593 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #20 of the 21 mapped in Taiwan. See how Taiwan compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Iron Fort?
Iron Fort stands in Taiwan, at 26.14203°, 119.92089°.
How famous is Iron Fort?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,593 of 8,134 worldwide, and #20 in Taiwan. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Iron Fort?
Taishun Tulou, about 158 km away.
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