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Pingtung City
Traditional Chinese	屏東市
Simplified Chinese	屏东市
Transliterations
Mandarin
- Hanyu Pinyin	Píngdōng shì
- Wade–Giles	P'ing-tung shih
Min
- Hokkien POJ	Pîn-tong-chhī

Pingtung
Pingtung; 屏東
	— County-controlled city —
Pingtung City · 屏東市; Ping (屏市)
	Nickname(s): Monkey City (阿猴城)
Country	Taiwan
Region	Southern Taiwan
Capital	North West Dist.(西北區)
	Government
- Mayor	Ye Shou-Shan (葉壽山)
	Area
- Total	60.067 km2 (23.2 sq mi)
	Population (May 2007)
- Total	215,975
- Density	3,595.6/km2 (9,312.5/sq mi)
Districts
Website	http://www.ptcg.gov.tw/

"Pingtung" redirects here; for the county of the same name see Pingtung County

Pingtung City is the capital of Pingtung County, Taiwan (Republic of China).

[edit] Geography

Pingtung is located in Pingtung County which is the southern most county in Taiwan. It is located East of Kaohsiung and Fengshan. The city is centered between the Western coast and the Eastern mountain range. It is humid and extremely hot in summer. It is fairly cool in winter. The local people consider that Pingtung is a small city with more than 210,000. Many people work in Kaoshiung and lots of them commute by train.

[edit] Railway

North: Liukuaicuo(六塊厝車站); Pingtung Station(屏東車站)[1]; South: Guilai(歸來車站)

28XX or 26XX is Local Train (區間車) (EMU500[2],600[3])
1XXX or 20XX is Tzu Chiang (自強號) or City Express Train. (E1000[4],EMU1200,DR2800~DR3100)
17x is Normal Train; 58XX is Local Express Train (區間快車) EMU700[5]
1XX is Fu Hsing Express (復興號); XX is Chu Kuang Express (莒光號)[6]

Heading North:

14_06:58 Songshan (松山) via Kaohsiung,Taipei; 1008_07:30 Suong-San; 1010_08:00 Suong-San
16_08:25 Songshan; 1012_09:02 Songshan; 20_09:30 Songshan; 34_10:50 Qidu (七堵) via Taipei
90_11:40 Kaohsiung; 1022_12:30 Songshan; 114_12:34 Keelung (基隆市) via Taipei
92_12:45 Fengyuan (豐原) via Taichung; 1028_13:36 Songshan; 2054_13:50 Kaohsiung
1030_14:20 Hualien (花蓮) via Taipei; 2_14:57 Taipei Tourist Tran; 94_16:36 Kaohsiung
1040_17:25 Songshan; 2056_18:18 Fengyuan; 2060_19:19 Kaohsiung; 1046_19:25 Songshan
82_19:47 Fengyuan; 23B_21:00 Kaohsiung; 1055_21:21 Kaohsiung; 1048_21:26 Kaohsiung

Heading South:

91_07:37 Taitung (台東); 2059_08:41 Hualien; 2051_09:32 Taitung
81_10:34 Taitung; 2053_12:14 Taitung; 1_13:01 Fangliao (枋寮) Tourist Tran
93_15:01 Taitung; 2055_17:02 Hualien; 95_19:17 Taitung
97_21:41 Zhiben (知本); 2061_22:41 Dawu (大武)

A detailed time table is available in this website.TRA

[edit] Airport/Bus

Pingtung Airport屏東機場
Bus station is nearby the train station.Pingtung County and city bus (屏東客運) Roadmap

003 Pingtung-Shepi (社皮)- Donggang (東港) 005 Pingtung-Wandan (萬丹)-Donggang-Hengchun (恆春)
102 Pingtung-Chaozhou (潮州) -Laiyi (來義) 104 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Jiangong (建功) 107 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Wutan (武潭)
109 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Beishi (北勢) -Donggang 206 Pingtung-Ligang (里港) -Maolin/Duona (茂林/多納) 208 Pingtung-Ligang-Meinong (美濃)
212 Pingtung-RoYang (洛陽) -Yanpu (鹽埔) 215 Pingtung-Yanpu-Gaoshu (高樹) 301 Pingtung-Zhenxing (振興) -Sandimen (三地門)
302 Pingtung-Sanhe Village (三和村)-Sandimen 305 Pingtung-Longchan (龍泉) -SanDiMen 308 Pingtung-Wutai (霧台)
310 Pingtung-Neipu (內埔)-Laiyi 314 Pingtung-Wanluan (萬巒) -Chaozhou 315 Pingtung-Chaozhou-Hengchun
501 Pingtung-Qishan (旗山) -Tainan (台南) 502 Pingtung-Tainan (freeway)

[edit] Education

國立屏東教育大學National PingTung University of Education
國立屏東商業技術學院National Pingtung Institute of Commerce
國立屏東高中National Pingtung Senior High School
國立屏東女中National Pingtung Girls' Senior High School
國立屏東高工National Pingtung Industrial Vocational Senior High School
縣立大同中學Pingtung County Da Tung Senior High School
私立屏榮高中 Private Ping-Rong High School
私立陸興中學 Private Lu-Shin High School
私立華洲工家職業學校 Private Hua-Chou Senior Industrial & Domestic Science Vocational School
私立民生家商職業學校 Private Minsheng Economics & Commercial Vocational High School