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Jinguitou Fortress

🇹🇼 Taiwan · 19th century

Jinguitou Fortress in Taiwan
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The Jinguitou Fortress (traditional Chinese: 金龜頭砲臺; simplified Chinese: 金龟头炮台; pinyin: Jīnguītóu Pàotái) is a former fort in Magong City, Penghu, Taiwan.

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Jinguitou Fortress ranks #4,230 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #11 of the 22 mapped in Taiwan. Founded 1864, it is older than 8% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 336 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Taiwan compares in the castle statistics.

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