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Apart from the natural beauty of the city, Hualien also offers tourists many other attractions: the waterfront Seaside Park; Nanbin Park with its numerous marine sculptures, the "Hawaii of the East" Resort built in Polynesian style, reef walking and rock collection at Qixingtan, and the Buddhist Jingsi Temple. Hualien was called "chi-lai" in the ancient period. Owing to the Hualien River empties into the Pacific Ocean on the East Coast , where the surge and wave is turbulent, it is also called "huei-lan," similar sound with Hualien.

Hualien County, facing the immense Pacific Ocean in the east and leaning against the grand Central Mountain Range in the west, is famous for its beautiful scenery. The natural resources in Taroko National Park, East Coast National Scenic Area, East Rift Valley Scenic Area and Yushan National Park make Hualien one of the most beautiful place in Taiwan.

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花蓮─昔日名「哆囉滿」，明朝弘治年間，葡萄牙人航海經過台灣海峽，繞到台灣東海岸，發現砂金，就用葡萄牙產金河流「利澳特愛魯」（Rio Dnero）稱呼花蓮。在漢人移居之前，原住民取名也有因自然位置與地形、特殊產物或發生事故而命名的，祇是漢人開拓花蓮之後，更有因拓殖建置的初景、歷史的動機、日本移民懷鄉思而命其本國地名、或語言轉訛而來的地名。

花蓮市是東部第一大都市，若將中橫、蘇花、花東海岸與花東縱谷等公路比喻成繩子，那麼花蓮無疑是一個繩結頭。這個保有原始純樸風味的城市，除了秀麗山水令人心曠神怡外，臨海而建的「海濱公園」、立有許多海洋生物塑像的「南濱公園」、可踏浪撿石的「七星潭」海濱、仿照夏威夷玻里尼西亞文化中心設計的「東方夏威夷遊樂園」與寧靜莊嚴的道場「靜思精舍」（慈濟功德會發源地）等，均值得一遊，而大理石與花蓮薯則為花蓮的特產。