Mailiao, Yunlin
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Mailiao is a township
in northwestern Yunlin County
, Taiwan
. With a population of 33,210, Mailiao has an area of 80.1668 km2.
The township's chief industry is the Formosa Mailiao Refinery, an oil refinery
that processes 400000 barrels (63,594.9 m³) of crude oil per day; the refinery exports it goods via the township's harbour.
Township (Taiwan)
The townships are the administrative subdivisions of Republic of China counties, along with County-controlled city. Most of the present townships originates from Towns and Villages in the Japanese era. After the World War II, the ROC government reformed them as urban townships and rural townships...
in northwestern Yunlin County
Yunlin County
Yunlin County is a county in the western part of Taiwan, the Republic of China. Yunlin is located to the right of the Taiwan Strait, the east of Nantou County and sharing a border with Changhua County divided by the Zhuoshui River. Yunlin is one of the counties of Taiwan that is part of the Chianan...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. With a population of 33,210, Mailiao has an area of 80.1668 km2.
The township's chief industry is the Formosa Mailiao Refinery, an oil refinery
Oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas...
that processes 400000 barrels (63,594.9 m³) of crude oil per day; the refinery exports it goods via the township's harbour.