Cishan District (also spelled Qishan; ) is a suburban

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

in northeastern

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City (Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsi ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. It has a area of 94.61 square kilometers, or 36.53 square miles. The population of Cishan is 34,863 as of May 2022. It is the 19th most populous district in Kaohsiung.

History

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast ...

in 1945, Cishan was organized as an

urban township An urban township is a designation of a unit of local government in several countries. United States The term is called ''urban township'' Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio and urban town in Wisconsin. Generally, an urban township is afforded more loca ...

Kaohsiung County Kaohsiung County was a county in southern Taiwan between 1945 and 2010. The county seat was located in Fongshan City. History Kaohsiung County was established on 6 December 1945 on the territory of Takao Prefecture () shortly after the end of W ...

. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City and Cishan was upgraded to a

of the

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. In 2009, then Cishan Township was affected by

Typhoon Morakot Typhoon Morakot, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kiko, was the deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history. The eighth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Morakot wrought catastrophic damage in Taiwa ...

Geography

*Area: *Population: 34,863 (2022)

Administrative divisions

The district comprises 21 villages: *1 Dalin　　 *2 Zhongzheng *3 Yuanfu　　 *4 Tungping *5 Yonghe *6 Ruiji *7 Zhufeng　　 *8 Meizhou　　　　　　 *9 Taiping　　 *10 Dade　　　 *11 Sanxie　　 *12 Tungchang *13 Guangfu *14 Kunzhou　 *15 Shangzhou *16 Dashan　　　　 *17 Zhongzhou　 *18 Nanzhou　　 *19 Xinguang *20 Nansheng *21 Zhongliao　

Education

Fortune Institute of Technology Fortune Institute of Technology (FIT; ) is a private university in Daliao District and Cishan District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History FIT was founded on 5 July 1989 as Fortune Junior College of Industry in Cishan Township, Kaohsiung County. In ...

Tourist attractions

* Cishan Wude Hall * Qishan Living Cultural Park *

Qishan Station Qishan Station () is a former train station in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The station was originally built by the Japanese government in Taiwan in 1912 to transport sugar cane, rice, bananas and people along the . In the fo ...

* Cishan Tianhou Temple (旗山天后宮) * Cishan Old Street * Jhongshan Park * Mount Ciwei * Mount Jhongliao Leisure and Agriculture Area * Stone Arches Corridor * Wulong Fongsan Temple (五龍山鳳山寺)

Transportation

A railroad was operated by Taiwan Sugar Company for carrying sugarcanes, cargo, and passenger service from 1910 to 1978 . Trains took more than 100 minutes from Cishan to

Jiuqutang railway station Jiuqutang (), formerly spelled Jioucyutang, is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Pingtung line located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The station was opened on 1 October 1907. The current main station hall ...

, where passengers and goods could be transferred to trains operated by

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. The track was removed in 1982 and the station building at Cishan was preserved as a museum. Several major highways pass Cishan:

Provincial Highway 3: Neimen-Cishan-Ligang (Pingtung County)

Provincial Highway 22: Nanzhi-Yanchao-Cisan-Gaoshu (Pingtung County)

Provincial Highway 29: Jiaxian-Shanlin-Cishan-Dashu

National Freeway 10 links Cishan and Zuoying. It connects with

National Freeway 3 National Freeway 3 (), also known as Formosa Freeway (), is a freeway in Taiwan. It is the second north–south freeway in Taiwan, beginning in Keelung City at Jijin Interchange on the provincial highway 2 (Jijin Road) and ending in Linbian, Ping ...

and

National Freeway 1 National Freeway 1 (), also known as Sun Yat-sen Freeway (), is a freeway in Taiwan, the first freeway built in Taiwan. It begins in Keelung at the intersection of Xiao 2nd Road and Zhong 4th Road and ends in Kaohsiung at the intersection of Zh ...

at Yanchao Junction and Dinjing Junction (Zuoying) respectively.

Bus transportation was provided by Kaohsiung Transportation and EDA Bus.

Cishan Bus Station The Cishan Bus Station () is a bus station in Cishan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. This station is often referred as "the South Station" by local residents. The building was originally the Cishan South Bus Station of Kaohsiung Transportation ...

is the main transportation hub of Cishan.

Notable natives

Chen Chien-jen Chen Chien-jen (, born 6 June 1951) is a Taiwanese epidemiologist who served as the Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2020. He joined the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration in 2003 as leader of the Departmen ...

Vice President of the Republic of China The vice president of the Republic of China, commonly referred to as the vice president of Taiwan, is the second-highest constitutional office of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Powers Under Article 49 the Constitution of the Republic of Chin ...

(2016-2020) *

Lo Ching-lung Lo Ching-lung (; born 20 August 1985) is a Taiwanese baseball player who most recently played with the Uni-President Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. Career Lo was signed out of high school by the Colorado Rockies for $1.4 mil ...

, baseball player * Lu Li'an, English professor and

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

politician *

Ovid Tzeng Ovid Tzeng (; born 8 September 1944) is a Taiwanese politician. He was Minister of Education from 2000 to 2002 and Minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs The Ministry of Culture (MOC, ) is the ministry of the Republic of China (Taiwan ...

, Minister of

Council for Cultural Affairs The Ministry of Culture (MOC, ) is the ministry of the Republic of China (Taiwan) that promotes cultural and creative industries. The ministry also maintains thNational Repository of Cultural Heritage History Established in 1981 by Executive Y ...

(2011-2012) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-6550512-kizan-2115-i.jpg, Map of Cishan (labeled as KIZAN) area (1944) File:Txu-oclc-6557994-index-454.jpg, Map of the region including Cishan (labeled as CHʻI-SHAN (KIZAN) ) (1951)

References

External links

* {{Districts in Taiwan Districts of Kaohsiung