Tianzhong Township is an urban
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
located at eastern
Changhua County
Changhua County ( Mandarin Pinyin: ''Zhānghuà Xiàn''; Wade-Giles: ''Chang¹-hua⁴ Hsien⁴''; Hokkien POJ: ''Chiang-hòa-koān'' or ''Chiong-hòa-koān'') is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth small ...
,
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 ...
. Its former name () and current name () make reference to the origin of the town in the center of rice paddies.
Geography
![Looking_down_towards_Tianzhong](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Looking_down_towards_Tianzhong.jpg)
Tianzhong encompasses with a population of 42,133 as of January 2017. Most of the township is part of
Changhua Plain, with the
Bagua Mountain Range to the east.
Administrative divisions
The township comprises 22 villages: Beilu, Bifeng, Dalun, Dashe, Dingtan, Fuxing, Longtan, Meizhou, Nanlu, Pinghe, Sanan, Sanguang, Sanmin, Shalun, Tunglu, Tungyuan, Xiangshan, Xilu, Xinmin, Xinzhuang, Zhonglu and Zhongtan.
Festivals
* Clay Sculpture Festival
Transportation
Rail
![田中車站 Tianzhong Station - panoramio](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E8%BB%8A%E7%AB%99_Tianzhong_Station_-_panoramio.jpg)
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THSR
Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately along the west coast, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung. With construction and operations managed by a pri ...
Changhua Station
Changhua () is a railway station in Changhua City, Changhua County, Taiwan served by Taiwan Railways. It is located at the southern junction of the Taichung line and Coastal line, where the line continues onto the southern section of the West ...
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TRA Tianzhong Station
Bus
* Tianzhong Bus Station of Changhua Bus
* Tianzhong Bus Station of Yuanlin Bus
Notable natives
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Cho Po-yuan
Cho Po-yuan (; born 27 March 1965) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Changhua County from 20 December 2005 until 25 December 2014.
Education
Cho received his bachelor's and master's degrees in law from National Taiwan Universi ...
, Magistrate of Changhua County (2005-2014)
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Huang Jong-tsun
Huang Jong-tsun (; born 30 March 1947) is a Taiwanese politician and psychologist who serves as the current President of the Examination Yuan. Prior to assuming his current role, Huang had served as President of China Medical University from ...
, President of
Examination Yuan
The Examination Yuan is the civil service commission branch, in charge of validating the qualification of civil servants, of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It has a president, a vice president, and seven to nine members, al ...
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Richie Jen, actor and singer
References
External links
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Townships in Changhua County
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