Yongkang (Tainan)

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Yongkang
永 康 區
Yúnkhông - Éngkhong - (Yongkang, Tainan City) .svg
Location of Yongkang in Tainan
State : TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Republic of China (Taiwan)
Coordinates : 23 ° 1 ′  N , 120 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 23 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 120 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 10  m
Area : 40.28  km²
 
Residents : 228.060 (August 2014)
Population density : 5,662 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time)
Telephone code : (+886) (0) 6
Postal code : 710
ISO 3166-2 : TW-TNN
 
Community type : Municipality of Tainan
Structure : 39 districts (里, Lǐ)
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Yongkang (Taiwan)
Yongkang
Yongkang

Yongkang ( Chinese  永 康 區 , Pinyin Yǒngkāng Qū , W.-G. Yung-k'ang Chü ) is the most populous district of the city of Tainan in the southwest of the Republic of China on Taiwan with about 215,000 inhabitants . Until 2010, Yongkang was an independent city in Tainan County .

location

Yongkang is located immediately east of the center of Tainan in the southern part of the Jianan Plain , the largest plain in Taiwan. Taiwan's major north-south thoroughfares, Highway 1 and the main Taiwanese railroad running through western Taiwan run through the district. The route of the Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail touches the eastern part of Yongkang, whose Tainan station is located in the southern neighboring district of Guiren .

history

The area of ​​today's district was already settled by Han Chinese towards the end of the Ming period . Yongkang belonged to the Kingdom of Tungning , founded by Koxinga in 1662 .

Benefiting from its convenient location and proximity to the metropolis of Tainan, the place developed into an important industrial and university location in the second half of the 20th century. From 1977 onwards, Yongkang was the largest city in Tainan County and the population continued to grow rapidly, from around 86,000 in 1983 to over 220,000 today. In 1993, when the population exceeded 150,000, Yongkang was given official city status ( Chinese  市 , Pinyin Shì ). On December 25, 2010, the entire Tainan County was incorporated into the city of Tainan, and Yongkang has had the status of a district ( 區 , Qū ) since then .

On February 6, 2016 local time, the 16-story Weiguan Jinlong Tower collapsed in Yongkang during the Kaohsiung earthquake, killing 114 people and injuring many others .

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