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Magong (POJ: Má-keng) is a county-administered city and seat of Penghu County, Taiwan. Magong City is located on Penghu's main island. The settlement's temple honoring the Chinese Goddess Mazu, the deified form of Lin Moniang from medieval Fujian Province, is usually accounted the oldest in all of Taiwan and Penghu. The town was originally named Makeng () but was changed to 馬公 during Japanese rule in 1920, and was the center of the Mako Guard District. After 1945, the Wade-Giles romanization Makung was used. Taiwan officially adopted Tongyong Pinyin in 2002 and Hanyu Pinyin in 2009, leading to the romanization Magong. The island's Mazu temple was erected in the late 16th or early 17th century. The city Magong'ao began to grow around 1887, during the rule of the Qing dynasty. Under Japanese rule, the settlement was renamed Makō and organized as a subprefecture of Hōko. The area was a major base of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was an embarkation point for the invasion of the Philippines during the Second World War. On 25 December 1981, Makung was upgraded from an urban township to a county-administered city. Magong City contains 33 municipal villages (): (Romanizations are in Hanyu Pinyin) Fuxing (復興里) Chang'an (長安里) Zhongyang (中央里) Qiming (啟明里) Chongqing (重慶里) Zhongxing (中興里) Guangfu (光復里) Guangming (光明里) Guangrong (光榮里) Chaoyang (朝陽里) Yangming (陽明里) Chongguang (重光里) Xiwei (西衛里) Xiwen (西文里) Dongwen (東文里) Anshan (案山里) Guanghua (光華里) Qianliao (前寮里) Shiquan (石泉里) Caiyuan (菜園里) Dongwei (東衛里) Anzhe (安宅里) Xingren (興仁里) Wukan (烏崁里) Tiexian (鐵線里) Suogang (鎖港里) Shanshui (山水里) Wude (五德里) Jing'an (井垵里) Shili (時里奇) Fenggui (風櫃里) Hujing (虎井里) centred on Hujing Islet (虎井嶼; Hóo-tsínn-sū) Tongpan (桶盤里) centred on Tongpan Island (桶盤嶼; Tháng-puânn-sū) Penghu County Council National Penghu University of Science and Technology The city is powered by the Hujing Power Plant located on Table Island. Magong has a very warm humid subtropical climate under the Köppen system.

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