From Takow to Kaohsiung

AB BA Roads (and Bridges)

One method behind the naming of Taiwan's roads (& bridges) is to take one character from the name of the place the road leaves from plus one character from the name of the place it goes to.

Sometimes this creates strange road names, such as "Deep South" (深南; Mdn. Shennan) Road that runs between Shenkeng (深坑; "Deep Gorge") District in New Taipei City and Nangang (南港; "Southern Harbor") District in Taipei City. Actually, this is not quite true since, as is typical with such AB BA roads, halfway between Shenkeng and Nangang, the connecting road changes its name from Shennan to Nanshen (南深; lit. "Southern Deep").

> .................... Nanhu (南湖; lit. "Southern Lake") Great Bridge (大橋; Mdn. Daqiao)
> .....................connects Taipei City's Nangang and Neihu (內湖; lit. "Inner Lake") Districts.
> .....................(photo by MC, copyright Jiyue Publications)

Other examples include Taoying Road (桃鶯路) in Taoyuan City (桃園市) which becomes Yingtao Road (鶯桃路) in Yingge District (鶯歌區) in New Taipei City (新北市).
[To be continued ...]

Text and photo copyright Jiyue Publications 2022