Taishan (New Taipei)
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Taishan 泰山 區 |
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 Location of Taishan's in New Taipei |
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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| Coordinates : | 25 ° 3 ' N , 121 ° 16' E | ||
| Area : | 19.1603 km² | ||
| Residents : | 77,900 (November 2013) | ||
| Population density : | 4,066 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+886) (0) 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 243 | ||
| ISO 3166-2 : | TW-NWT | ||
| Community type : | New Taipei City District | ||
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Taishan ( Chinese 泰山 區 , Pinyin Tàishān Qū , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Thài-san ) is a district of the city of New Taipei in the north of the island of Taiwan , Republic of China .
location
Taishan borders in the north on the neighboring districts Linkou and Wugu , in the east and south on Xinzhuang and in the west on the city of Taoyuan . The district is connected to Taipei's subway network and is home to the Ming Chi University of Technology and the Lee Ming Institute of Technology .
history
About two thirds of the hilly area was settled by Chinese immigrants in the 18th and 19th centuries and was initially called Suaⁿ-kha , ( Min Nan : "At the foot of the mountain"). In 1763, the Mingzhi Academy was established here, a teaching institution where students from wealthy families could prepare for participation in official exams. It was the first of its kind in northern Taiwan.
With the industrialization of Taiwan and the rise of Taipei to a major city, the area of today's Taishan increasingly took on the character of a suburb. In the course of the conversion of the place to a municipality of the district Taipei (today: City of New Taipei) the name was changed in 1950 in reference to the two local main temples, the "Upper" and the "Lower Taishan Temple", in Taishan .
Taishan night market
The Mingzhi Academy
