Sihu Township (, Wade–Giles: Szuhu) 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 ...

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Geography

As of February 2023, it has a population total of 21,458 and an area of 77.1189 km², including a section of coastline on the

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History

Sihu's coastal waters were traditionally used in

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, but in 1991 they were

zoned Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a si ...

for offshore industrial use.

Administrative divisions

The township comprises 21 villages: Botung, Bozi, Caicuo, Feisha, Feitung, Guanggou, Huliao, Huxi, Lincuo, Lintung, Luchang, Lunbei, Lunnan, Neihu, Sanxing, Shihu, Sihu, Xiangdiao, Xide, Xinzhuang and Xiwei.

Economy

The township produces

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es.

Notable natives

Chen Kuei-ru Chen Kuei-ru ( zh, 陳奎儒; also transliterated as Chen Kuei-ju; born 22 September 1993) is a Taiwanese athlete competing in the hurdling, sprint hurdles. He won a silver medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. His personal bests are 13.34 seco ...

, running athlete *

Kerris Tsai Kerris Tsai (; born 20 April 1967) is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese song (), is a popular music genre sung in Taiwanese Hokkien and produced ma ...

, pop singer *

Lee Chin-yung Lee Chin-yung (; born 1 August 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 1997, when he was elected Mayor of Keelung. Lee remained mayor until 2001. He served as acting Yunlin County magistrate in 200 ...

, Magistrate of

(2014–2018)

References

Townships in Yunlin County {{taiwan-geo-stub