Gongliao

Gòngliáo (貢寮) is the easternmost district in both New Taipei and Taiwan. It extends to Cape Santiago (三貂角), by Spanish sailors in 1626. The nearby beach at Yánliáo (鹽寮) was the landing site for the Japanese invasion of Taiwan in 1895, now marked by a resistance monument repurposed from the base of a colonial era memorial to Prince Kitashirakawa.

The district is also home to Fúlóng (福隆), host of the annual Hohaiyan Rock Festival since 2000; the controversial Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant, completed but never brought online; and the Old Caoling Railway Tunnel, a decommissioned Japanese colonial era passage through the mountains now popular with cyclists.