Wanhua
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Wanhua 萬 華 區 |
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 Location Wanhuas in Taipei |
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 Republic of China (Taiwan)
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| Coordinates : | 25 ° 2 ' N , 121 ° 29' E | ||
| Area : | 8.8522 km² | ||
| Residents : | 191,850 (Dec 2017) | ||
| Population density : | 21,673 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+886) (0) 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 116 | ||
| ISO 3166-2 : | TW-TPE | ||
| Community type : | Taipei City District | ||
| Structure : | 36 districts (里, Li ) 720 neighborhoods (鄰, Lín ) |
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Wanhua ( Chinese 萬 華 區 , Pinyin Wànhúa Qū , W.-G. Wan-hua Chü , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Báng-kah-khu ) is an old settlement in Taipei . The area is now incorporated and forms an independent urban district.
In addition to Wanhua, there were two other settlements in what is now Taipei before Taiwan's Japanese colonial era : Dalongdong and Dadaocheng .
Originally, the place was in Taiwanese name Báng-kah (also Monga; Chinese 艋舺 , Pinyin Měngjiǎ ), which means Kanu (see also. Tagalog and Indonesian bangka ). Canoe because the indigenous people and Han Chinese in Báng-kah on the Danshui River traded in their canoes. Báng-kah was written as 萬 華 during Japanese rule , which reads as “Banka” in Japanese. These Japanese Kanji are pronounced as Wanhua in standard Chinese .
Wanhua is the oldest settlement in Taipei. A common saying in Taiwan is "first Fu , second Lu , third Mengjia ". "Fu" is Tainan Fu , the first capital of Taiwan; "Lu" is Lugang , the major commercial port in central Taiwan; and "Mengjia" is a large trading port in northern Taiwan. From this idiom one can see how rich and important Mengjia once was.
The Mengjia Longshan Temple is in Wanhua . The district is the location of the 2010 Taiwanese gangster film Monga .
