Shanlin District () is a suburban

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Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City ( Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Ka ...

in southern

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is one of the major population centers in this area.

History

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the

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in 1945, Shanlin was organized as a rural township of

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. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City and Shanlin was upgraded to a

of the

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. In August 2019, some residents living in high-risk areas of Shanlin District were evacuated from their homes after heavy rain and flash flooding.

Quick facts

Area Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a region on the plane or on a curved 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 op ...

: 104.0036 km². *

Population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction usi ...

: 12,382 people (January 2016) * Divisions: 7 urban villages 142 Neighborhoods *

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: 846 *

Households A household consists of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is im ...

: 4,804

Administrative divisions

The district is divided into Shanlin, Muzi, Jilai, Xinzhuang, Shangping, Yuemei, Yuemei and Da-ai/Da'ai Village.

Education

High school

* Kaohsiung Municipal Shanlin National High School

Primary Schools

* Shanlin National Primary School * Yuemeimin Primary School * Xinzhuang National Primary School * Shangping National Primary School * Chilai National Elementary School * Kaohsiung City Bananhua Tribe Elementary School in Da'ai Village

Tourist attractions

* Baishueicyuan Waterfall * Gourd Sculpture Museum * Shanlin Confucius Temple（新庒孔聖廟） * Yuemei Leshan Temple (月眉樂善堂) * Yuemei Bridge

Transportation

A shuttle taxi system named '' Happy Taxi '' was introduced to both Yuemei Villages of the district on 27 May 2019, the first public transport in the district.

Notable natives

Lin Yu-fang Lin Yu-fang (; born 15 March 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. Lin was a Kuomintang legislator from 2008 to 2016 and the chairman of the Legislative Yuan's Diplomacy and National Defense Committee. Education Lin obtained his bachelor's and mast ...

, member of

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(2008-2016)

References

External links

* {{Districts in Taiwan Districts of Kaohsiung