Pingtung County
Traditional Chinese	屏東縣
Simplified Chinese	屏东县
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Píngdōng Xiàn - Tongyong Pinyin Píngdong Siàn Min - Hokkien POJ Pîn-tong-kōan

Pingtung County 屏東縣 Abbreviation(s): Pingtung (屏東)
County seat	Pingtung City
Region	Southern Taiwan
County Magistrate	Tsao Chi-hung (曹啟鴻)
Cities	1
Townships	32
Area
- Total	2,775.6003 km² (5 of 25)
- % water	n/a %
Population
- Total	890,753(June 2007) (10 of 25)
- Density	320.92/km²
Symbols
- County flower	Hairy Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea brasiliensis)
- County tree	Coconut tree
- County bird	n/a
Official websites	[1]

Pingtung County is a county in Southern Taiwan. Pingtung County is officially administered as a county of Taiwan Province of the Republic of China.

Pingtung is famous for the beautiful sight of Kenting National Park. The Kenting National Park is the first National park established in 1984.

Contents 1 History 2 Administration 2.1 City 2.2 Townships 2.2.1 Urban townships 2.2.2 Rural townships 3 Higher Education 4 Railway Art 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] History

Modern-day Pingtung County and Kaohsiung County were part of Wan-nien Province (萬年州) during the Kingdom of Tungning and Fengshan Province in the Qing Dynasty. Pingtung County is a recently-developed county. Its largest city is Pingtung City.

At first, this area of Taiwan was where criminals were exiled to; only the settlements near the Checheng Township existed. In 1664, some soldiers, Cantonese and Hakka people came and farmed here under the farming system introduced by Zheng Jing.

Pingtung City, the biggest city in Pingtung County, also known as "the monkey" (阿猴), was where the Plain Aboriginals lived.

The name Pingtung refers to a former nearby mountain known as Half-Screen Mountain (半屏山). Pingtung means "East of Half-Screen Mountain."

Not until the 23rd year of Kangxi (1684) did any Han people establish villages near Pingtung and officially settle there. The first pioneers were the people of Fujian. In 1734 most of the Pingtung plain was cultivated, and in 1764 Pingtung was developed into a city of greater scale. In 1836, the government and locals worked together to build the four walls of the city (the North gate, the East gate, the West gate and the South gate), and the roads were also properly finished. (Translated from the website of Cultural Affairs Bureau of Pingtung County)

Pingtung was the site of an 7.1 magnitude earthquake on 26 December 2006. In 2009, Pingtung received rainfall in excess of 2,500 millimetres (98 in); breaking all rainfall records of any single place in Taiwan induced by a single typhoon.

[edit] Administration

[edit] City

1. Pingtung City (屏東市)

[edit] Townships

[edit] Urban townships

1. Chaozhou Township (潮州鎮)
2. Donggang Township (東港鎮)
3. Hengchun Township (恆春鎮)

[edit] Rural townships

1. Changzhi Township (長治鄉)
2. Checheng Township (車城鄉)
3. Chunri Township (春日鄉)
4. Fangliao Township (枋寮鄉)
5. Fangshan Township (枋山鄉)
6. Gaoshu Township (高樹鄉)
7. Jiadong Township (佳冬鄉)
8. Jiuru Township (九如鄉)
9. Kanding Township (崁頂鄉)
10. Laiyi Township (來義鄉)
11. Ligang Township (里港鄉)
12. Linbian Township (林邊鄉)
13. Linluo Township (麟洛鄉)
14. Liuqiu Township (琉球鄉)
15. Majia Township (瑪家鄉)
16. Manzhou Township (滿州鄉)
17. Mudan Township (牡丹鄉)
18. Nanzhou Township (南州鄉)
19. Neipu Township (內埔鄉)
20. Sandimen Township (三地門鄉)
21. Shizi Township (獅子鄉)
22. Taiwu Township (泰武鄉)
23. Wandan Township (萬丹鄉)
24. Wanluan Township (萬巒鄉)
25. Wutai Township (霧臺鄉)
26. Xinpi Township (新埤鄉)
27. Xinyuan Township (新園鄉)
28. Yanpu Township (鹽埔鄉)
29. Zhutian Township (竹田鄉)

[edit] Higher Education

• National Pingtung University of Education
• National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
• National Pingtung Institute of Commerce
• Tajen University
• Yung Ta Institute of Technology and Commerce
• Meiho Institute of Technology
• Kao Fong College

[edit] Railway Art

• F3 Art Venue in Fangliao

Located just a few minutes'walk from Fangliao train station,the art village stretches around 3,000 square meters which provides artists in residence plenty of room to work and live. Converted from old dormitories that once belonged to the Taiwan Railway Administration, the art village has been part of the Art Network of Railway Warehouses run by the Council for Cultural Affairs since 2002.^[1]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Art at the Crossroads: F3's Undetermined Future in Fangliao", by Eva Tang,12 February 2009,Taiwan Culture Portal http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1114&Itemid=157

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pingtung

• Pingtung County Government Website (Chinese)

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