Shilin

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**Shilin District**
士林
An alley at the edge of the Shilin Night Market.
Old name: Pattsiran (Ketagalan for "hot spring"; transliterated into Chinese as "八芝蘭" Bāzhīlán)
Region	Northern Taipei (postal code 111)
Director	unknown
Area	Ranked 1st of 12
Total	62.3682 km²
Population	Ranked 2nd of 12
Total	287,965
Density	4,617/km²
Villages (里 li):	51
Neighborhoods (鄰 lin):	985

Shilin District (Traditional Chinese: 士林區; Hanyu Pinyin: Shìlín Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Shìhlín Cyu; Wade-Giles: Shih-lin Ch'ü; Taiwanese: Sū-lîm-khu) is a district of Taipei. The name "Shilin" was derived from an idiom meaning "scholars as many as the trees in the woods" (士多如林).

Shilin is foremost a residential district and has several famous neighbourhoods, such as Waishuangxi (外雙溪) and Tianmu. Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-Shek lived in Shilin after he moved the Chinese nationalist government to Taiwan. A large foreign population lives in Shilin; both the Taipei American School and the Taipei Japanese School are located in this district. (Shilin even has a Mormon temple.)

Tourist attractions include the Yangmingshan National Park, the National Palace Museum, Chiang Kai-shek's residence (士林官邸), and the Shilin Night Market.

Shilin has three universities: Ming Chuan University, Soochow University, and the Chinese Culture University.

The central command of the R.O.C. Navy is in Shilin.