Township (Taiwan)
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Townships are the third-level administrative subdivisions of counties of Taiwan, along with county-controlled cities. After World War II, the townships were established from the following conversions on the Japanese administrative divisions:
- Towns (Japanese: 街 Hepburn: gai, Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ke) to urban townships (Chinese: 鎮; pinyin: zhèn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tìn)
- Villages (Japanese: 庄 Hepburn: jō, Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tsng) to rural townships (Chinese: 鄉; pinyin: xiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiong).
- additional 24 rural townships are classify as Mountain indigenous townships (Chinese: 山地鄉; pinyin: shāndì xiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soaⁿ-tē hiong).
Local laws do not enforce strict standards for classifying them, generally urban township has a larger population and more business and industry than rural township, but not to the extent of County-controlled city. Under townships, there is still village as the fourth or the basic level of administery.
Recently there are totally 186 townships in Taiwan, including 146 rural townships and 40 urban townships. Penghu County and Lienchiang County are the only two counties that do not have urban townships.
Names below are transliterated using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Note that the county names do not necessarily use Hanyu Pinyin.
List of Counties
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List of townships by county
Changhua CountyUrban TownshipsRural Townships |
Chiayi CountyUrban TownshipsRural Townships |
Hsinchu CountyUrban TownshipsRural TownshipsMountain Indigenous Townships |
Hualien CountyUrban TownshipsRural TownshipsMountain Indigenous Townships |
Miaoli CountyUrban TownshipsRural Townships
Mountain Indigenous Townships
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Nantou CountyUrban TownshipsRural TownshipsMountain Indigenous Townships |
Penghu CountyRural Townships |
Pingtung CountyUrban Townships
Rural Townships
Mountain Indigenous Townships |
Taitung CountyUrban TownshipsRural TownshipsMountain Indigenous Townships |
Yilan CountyUrban TownshipsRural TownshipsMountain Indigenous Townships |
Yunlin CountyUrban TownshipsRural Townships |
Kinmen CountyUrban TownshipsRural Townships |
Lienchiang CountyRural Townships | ||
Gallery
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Su-ao Township
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Jinhu Township
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Ren-ai Township
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Shuili Township
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Gaoshu Township
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