Erlun Township is a rural township in

Yunlin County Yunlin County (Mandarin pinyin: ''Yúnlín Xiàn''; Taigi POJ: ''Hûn-lîm-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Yùn-lìm-yen'') is a county in western Taiwan. Yunlin County borders the Taiwan Strait to the west, Nantou County to the east, Changhua County t ...

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 population total of 25,183 (雲林縣西螺戶政事務所-人口統計-村里鄰人口數 Population for Township and District.
Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 6 March 2023.) and an area of 59.5625 square kilometres.

Name

The name ''Erlun'' came from the fact that the area consists of two connected hills.二崙開拓史
from the Erlun township website. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

History

Early residents of Erlun came from Jinjiang and

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, China.

Geography

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 18 villages: Dahua (), Datong (), Dayi (), Dazhuang (), Dingan (), Fuxing (), Ganghou (), Laihui (), Lundong (), Lunxi (), Nanzi (), Sanhe (), Tianwei (), Yangxian (), Yizhuang (), Yongding (), Youche () and Zhuangxi ().

Tourist attractions

Erlun Sports Park The Erlun Sports Park () is a park in Erlun Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan. See also * List of parks in Taiwan This is a list of parks in Taiwan, Republic of China. Taipei * 228 Peace Memorial Park * Bailing Sport Park * Ba ...

* Erlun Story House

References

Townships in Yunlin County {{Taiwan-geo-stub