Wufeng District () is a suburban

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in southern

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: '), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in central Taiwan. Taichung is Taiwan's second-largest city, with more than 2.85 million residents, making it the largest city in Ce ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

. It is the location of Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council. Wufeng is a mainly agricultural town. It was heavily damaged by the Jiji earthquake on 21 September 1999, which caused around 100 deaths in the town. The 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan, which commemorates the giant quake, is built at what was formerly Guangfu Junior High School, which was destroyed when part of the school was uplifted by the Chelungpu Fault during the quake. The two major geographical features of this town are the Wu Xi (Wu Stream), which forms the town's southern border, and Xiangbi Shan (Elephant Trunk Mountain), which lies in the eastern part of the township.

History

The name ''Wufeng'' was formerly called ''Atabu'' (), which was an Arikun tribe.

Administrative divisions

Tonglin, Jifeng, Jiayin, Benxiang, Zhongzheng, Jinrong, Laiyuan, Bentang, Beiliu, Nanliu, Side, Wufu, Dingtai, Beishi, Nanshi, Wanfeng, Jiuzheng, Kengkou, Fenggu Liugu Village.

Geography

Area Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...

: 98.08 km² *

Population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

: 64,094 people (February 2023)

Education

* Asia University * Chaoyang University of Technology

Government institutions

Bureau of Cultural Heritage The Bureau of Cultural Heritage (BOCH; ) is a unit of the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture (Taiwan), Ministry of Culture responsible for preserving and restoring historic buildings, sites, communities, relics and cultural landscapes, as well as cons ...

K-12 Education Administration The K-12 Education Administration (K12EA; ) is the agency of the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), Ministry of Education of Taiwan responsible for formulating, executing and supervising educational policies and systems for senior high school educa ...

* National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra

Tourist attractions

* 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan * Asia Museum of Modern Art * Assembly Affairs Museum, The Legislative Yuan * Democratic Times Museum * Lin Hsien-tang Residence Museum * National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra * Wufeng Lin Family Mansion and Garden * Jiujiu Feng (Ninety-nine peaks) * Memorial Park of the Taiwan Provincial Council *Tong-Lin Ecological Park * Taiwan Mushroom Museum

Transportation

Roads

Freeway

National Freeway No.3 Wufeng Interchange National Freeway No.6 Jiujeng Interchange

Provincial Way

Provincial Highway 3 Provincial Highway 63 (Zhongtou Highway)

Buses

17 50 (rides from 921 Earthquake Museum to

Beitun District Beitun District (; lit: northern camp) is a District (Taiwan), district in Taichung, Taiwan. Located in the northern part of the city, it is a half mountainous, half urban area. Though Beitun District used to be considered part of the countrysi ...

) 53 (rides to Wenxin Road, Nantun District) 59 107 (rides to Nantun District) Taichung Metropolitan night view from WuFeng District

108 (rides from

to Tsaotun, Nantou) 131 132 151 (rides to High Speed Rail Taichung Station) 201 (rides from Asia University to North District) 281 282

Notable natives

* Tang Yao-ming, Minister of National Defense (2002–2004) * Lin Jin-zhong, calligraphy artist (b. 1951)

References

External links

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霧峰Wufeng, Taichung阿罩霧Ataabu (Fan Page on Facebook)
Districts of Taichung Taiwan placenames originating from Formosan languages {{Taiwan-geo-stub