Daan District () is a coastal suburban

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Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Ta ...

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 ...

, upgraded from Da-an Township. It lies between the Dajia river and the Da-an river. The district's economy is based on rice. The climate is

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History

In March 1842,Gordon, Leonard H. D. (2007). ''Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers''. Plymouth: Lexington Books. p. 10. . during the First Opium War, the brig ''Ann'' became shipwrecked near Daan harbour. It had 57 personnel, mostly Indian seacunnies and

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s. Survivors of the wreck, along with the survivors of the ''Nerbudda'' shipwreck in September 1841, were executed in Tainan in August 1842.

Administrative divisions

Nanpu, Nanzhuang, Zhongzhuang, Tong'an, Fuxing, Guike, Ding'an, Yong'an, Fuzhu, Haiqi, Xi'an and Songya Villages.

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