Magong

English

Alternative forms

• Makung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 馬公 (Mǎgōng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mäʹgo͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Magong

1. A county-administered city in Penghu County, Taiwan.
   • 1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail‎^[1], page 12, column 2:

     My first stop upon disembarking from the plane was the Magong Teacher's Hostel in "downtown" Magong. This was to be my home for several weeks during my first and third trips. The city of Magong, the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Pescadores, is a sleepy fishing harbor of about 30,000 residents. In appearance much more like a Mediterranean fishing village than a Chinese city, Magong is the center of the important fishing industry in the Pescadores.

   • 2015 July 2, Austin Ramzy, “TransAsia Pilot Acknowledged Cutting Wrong Engine, Crash Report Says”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 July 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     Last July, a TransAsia ATR 72 flying to Magong, in the outlying Penghu Islands of Taiwan, crashed as it was attempting to land in rain and wind shortly after a typhoon passed through the area.

   • 2022 June 17, Sean Chang, “'Life goes on' for unfazed Taiwanese on front-line islands”, in The Japan Times‎^[4], archived from the original on 17 June 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     Andy Huang, who runs an ice cream shop in the main town of Magong, has more experience than most in facing Beijing’s belligerence.

Translations

county-administered city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬公／马公 (zh) (Mǎgōng)

Further reading

• Magong, Makung at Google Ngram Viewer