Nan-t'ou

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 南投 (Nántóu) Wade-Giles romanization: Nan²-tʻou².

Nan-t'ou

1. Alternative form of Nantou
   • 1978, Disaster! When Nature Strikes Back‎, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 367:

     July 31
     Northern Taiwan. The second typhoon to lash Taiwan in a week struck the towns of Taipei, T'ao-yuan, and Nan-t'ou; at least 38 persons were killed.

   • 1993 March 5 [30 November 1992], Article Explores KMT 'Vote Buying'‎, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 43:

     Of these terms, “big fir” used at Nan-t'ou has a historic origin. The chief economic resource of the area in the early days was the timber from the fir forest growing on the central range which traverses the whole of Nan-t'ou County. Because of vote buying, the election process in Nan-t'ou County underwent a drastic change overnight.

   • 1995, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Micropaedia‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 302:

     A freeway connects the town to T'ai-chung city, 13 miles (21 km) north, and Nan-t'ou city, 4 miles (6 km) south.

   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page ix:

     Yuan-chu-min history, that of the island’s southern Min speaking Han Chinese, is in evidence farther east, in Nan-t'ou county. After reaching the heart of Nan-t'ou city, the county’s center of government and also home to Taiwan’s provincial government, one can board a bus to ascend the mountains that dominate much of the central and eastern landscape of the island.