Magong

Magong 馬公市
County-controlled city
View of Siying Rainbow Bridge and Penghu area in Magong
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Magong Location in the Republic of China
Coordinates: 23°34′N 119°35′E / 23.567°N 119.583°E / 23.567; 119.583Coordinates: 23°34′N 119°35′E / 23.567°N 119.583°E / 23.567; 119.583
Country	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Province	Taiwan Province (streamlined)
County	Penghu County
Area
• Total	33.9918 km2 (13.1243 sq mi)
Population (December 2014)
• Total	60,335
• Density	1,800/km2 (4,600/sq mi)
Website	www.mkcity.gov.tw

Magong, formerly romanized as Makung, is a "county-controlled" city on the western part of Penghu Island in the Pescadores (Penghu Islands) in the Taiwan Strait. It is the seat of Penghu County, administered by the Republic of China on Taiwan.

The settlement's temple honoring the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, the deified form of the medieval Fujianese shamaness Lin Moniang, is usually accounted the oldest in all of Taiwan and Penghu. The town was originally named Makeng (Chinese: ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má-keng; literally: "mother's palace") but was changed to Makō (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 Hanyu Pinyin in 2009, leading to the romanization Magong.