Taitung
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Taitung 臺 東 市 |
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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| County : | Taitung | ||
| Coordinates : | 22 ° 45 ' N , 121 ° 9' E | ||
| Area : | 109.7691 km² | ||
| Residents : | 106,018 (Oct 2017) | ||
| Population density : | 966 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time) | ||
| Postal code : | 950 | ||
| ISO 3166-2 : | TW-TTT | ||
| Community type : | City (市, shì ) | ||
| Structure : | 46 districts (里, li ) | ||
| Mayor : | Zhang Guozhou (張國洲) | ||
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Taitung ( Chinese 臺 東 市 / 台 東 市 , Pinyin Táidōng Shì , W.-G. T'ai-tung shih , Zhuyin ㄊ ㄞ ˊ ㄉ ㄨ ㄥ ㄕ ˋ , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Tâi-tang-chhī ) is the capital of Taitung County , Republic of China on Taiwan . It is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and had a population of around 106,000 in 2017.
The city is the political, economic and traffic center of the district of the same name named after it. About 45 percent of Taitung County residents live in Taitung City.
location
The city of Taitung is located on the southeastern coast of Taiwan in Taitung County, of which it is the capital. The Beinan River ( Beinanxi , 卑南溪) flows through the urban area and flows into the Pacific. The urban area extends predominantly south or southwest of the river. Only the two districts of Fufeng (富 豐) and Fugang (富 岡) are north and northeast of the river. Towards the hinterland, the city is bounded in the northwest by the southern foothills of the Haian Coast Mountains and in the southwest by the foothills of the Taiwan Central Mountains. The neighboring communities are Beinan in the north and west and Taimali in the south.
Population and languages
The population of the city of Taitung has stagnated since at least 1980 or is even tending to decline slightly. According to the statistics office in Taitung in 2010, the languages spoken at home were (people over 6 years of age): Standard Chinese 92.4%, Hokkien 75%, Formosa languages 11.1%, Hakka 4.2%, other languages 6, 7%. Most of the residents spoke more than one language.
Infrastructure
The city is connected to the Taiwanese rail network to the south via the southern connecting line (南 迴 線) and to the north via the Taitung line (台 東線). There are three train stations in the city: Kangle (康樂 車站), Zhiben (知本 車站) and Taitung (台 東 車站). Kangle and Zhiben are on the south link while Taitung Station forms the border between the south link and the Taitung line. Provincial highways 9 and 11 cross the urban area in a north-south direction. Taitung Domestic Airport is in the Fengnian (豐年 里) district . Taitung has a small fishing port with ferry services to the islands of Lan Yu and Lü Dao .
history
The original inhabitants of the Taitung Plain were the indigenous peoples of the Puyuma and the Yanks . In the Formosa languages of the Ami and the Puyuma, the place is called 'Pusung'. It was not until the late 19th century that Han Chinese settled here. The first Han Chinese settlement was Po Sang (寶 桑) - now a district in downtown Taitung - and was established during the Tongzhi Restoration period in the 1860s. After the end of Japanese rule over Taiwan (1895-1945), the new government of the Republic of China renamed the settlement “Taitung” (臺 東). In 1976 Taitung was raised from a township (鎮, zhèn ) to a town (市, shi ) after passing the 100,000-inhabitant mark .
Facilities and sights
Taitung National University is located in Taitung . Extensive prehistoric finds were made in the area of what is now the district of Beinan in July 1980 during the expansion work for the train station. After years of excavation, today's National Museum of Prehistoric Culture of Taiwan was opened in 2002 on the basis of these findings .
climate
Taitung has a subtropical monsoon climate. The rainiest months are May to October. The annual average temperature is 24.5 ° C.
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Climate data from the years 1981–2010
Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau
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Administrative division
The city of Taitung is divided into 46 districts (里, li ).
- Datong (大同)
- Wenhua (文化)
- Siwei (四維)
- Zhibi (知本)
- Nanrong (南 榮)
- Jianxing (建興)
- Fufeng (富 豐)
- Xinxing (新興)
- Fenggu (豐 谷)
- Tiehua (鐵花)
- Zhongxin (中心)
- Renai (仁愛)
- Yongle (永樂)
- Beinan (卑南)
- Jianhe (建和)
- Malan (馬蘭)
- Fuguo (復 國)
- Xingguo (興國)
- Fengyuan (豐原)
- Zhongshan (中山)
- Minsheng (民生)
- Chenggong (成功)
- Donghai (東海)
- Jianguo (建國)
- Qiangguo (強國)
- Fuxing (復興)
- Fengtian (豐田)
- Fengrong (豐 榮)
- Zhongzheng (中正)
- Minzu (民族)
- Guangming (光明)
- Yanwan (岩 灣)
- Jiannong (建 農)
- Kangle (康樂)
- Xinsheng (新生)
- Fengnian (豐年)
- Fengle (豐樂)
- Zhonghua (中華)
- Minquan (民權)
- Ziqiang (自強)
- Nanwang (南王)
- Jianye (建業)
- Fugang (富 岡)
- Xinyuan (新 園)
- Fengli (豐 里)
- Baosang (寶 桑)
sons and daughters of the town
- Yang Chuan-Kwang (1933–2007), Taiwanese athlete, decathlete, silver medalist at the 1960 Olympic Games
- Chin-Chao Lin (* 1987), conductor
Web links
- Official website (Chinese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Postal Code ZIP Code Taidong, Taiwan - GeoPostcodes. Retrieved July 30, 2018 .
- ↑ 市長 專欄 ("Section on the Mayor"). Retrieved December 1, 2017 (Chinese).
- ↑ 1.5- 現 住 人口 按 三 段 、 六歲 年齡 組分 (XLS) (ODF). Taiwan Ministry of the Interior, accessed on December 2, 2017 (Chinese, population statistics in tables, administrative units also in English).
- ↑ 表 ９ 臺東縣 ６ 歲 以上 本 國籍 常住 人口 在家 使用 語言 情形 (“Table 9: Languages spoken at home by people over 6 years of age in Taitung County”). (PDF) (No longer available online.) Taiwan Bureau of Statistics, archived from the original on December 4, 2017 ; Retrieved on December 2, 2017 (Chinese / English, the percentages add up to more than 100%, as a large part of the population is multilingual, the survey did not explicitly ask about the mother tongue, standard Chinese is used as the official language at least as a second language from Majority of the population spoken). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 歷史 沿革 ("Historical Development"). Taitung City Council, accessed December 1, 2017 (Chinese).
