National Highway 5 (Taiwan)
National Highway No. 5 is a freeway, which begins in Taipei City at Nangang JCT. on National Highway No. 3 and ends in Su-ao, Yilan on Masai Road. Although it was called the Beiyi Freeway (Chinese abbreviation for Taipei to Yilan) prior to its final completion in June 2006, the official name is the Chiang Wei-shui Memorial Freeway, after the early twentieth century Taiwanese political activist and Yilan native Chiang Wei-shui (蔣渭水, Japanese: Sho Isui).
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