Provincial Highway 1 in Fangshan, Pingtung

Fangshan Township () is a coastal rural township in

Pingtung County Pingtung County is a county located in southern Taiwan. It has a warm tropical monsoon climate and is known for its agriculture and tourism. Kenting National Park, Taiwan's oldest national park, is located in the county. The county seat is Pin ...

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 northe ...

Geography

*Population: 5,749 (December 2014) *Area:

Administrative divisions

The township comprises the four villages of Fangshan, Fenggang, Jialu and Shanyu.

Economy

The township is famous for its Aiwen mangoes, which are exported to Asian countries.

Infrastructure

Submarine communication cables

Fangshan is one of the two

cable landing point A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be d ...

s of Taiwan island (the other one is Toucheng). Four submarine communication cables, including C2C and SEA-ME-WE 3, connect here.

Tourist attractions

Fangshan Post Office The Fangshan Post Office () is a post office in Fangshan Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. History The post office was opened on 14 October 2016 as the 41st branch of Pingtung post office. Architecture The post office was designed resembling ...

Transportation

The

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is served by

Neishi Station Neishi () is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration South-link line in Fangshan Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. In order to get to the platform from the train station, commuters would have to cross the railway track and t ...

and

Jialu Station Jialu () is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration South-link line located in Fangshan Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. History The station was opened on 5 October 1992. See also * List of railway stations in Taiwan There a ...

of the Taiwan Railways South-Link Line.

Notable natives

Tsai Ing-wen Tsai Ing-wen (; born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician serving as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2016. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Tsai is the first female president of Taiwan. She served a ...

, President of Taiwan

References

External links

Fangshan Government website
Townships in Pingtung County {{Taiwan-geo-stub