Caoya () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the southern of

Cianjhen District Cianjhen District () is a District (Taiwan), district in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. It covers an area of and is subdivided into 59 villages. The district has a population is 180,097, as of October 2023. It is the fifth-most populated district in ...

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsiung City has a population of approximately 2.73 million p ...

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. The name "Caoya", which originally means a draft government building of Zheng Chenggong in

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, now consists of more than 12,000 people. Caoya is also the nearest town to one of the largest fish-market (Qianzhen Fishing Port).

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Geography of Kaohsiung Villages in Taiwan {{taiwan-geo-stub