Niaosong District () is a rural
district
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of
Kaohsiung City
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 ...
,
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 no ...
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History
After the
handover of Taiwan from Japan to the
Republic of China
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in 1945, Niaosong was organized as a
rural township of
Kaohsiung County
Kaohsiung County was a county in southern Taiwan between 1945 and 2010. The county seat was located in Fongshan City.
History
Kaohsiung County was established on 6 December 1945 on the territory of Takao Prefecture () shortly after the end of ...
. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City and Niaosong was upgraded to a
district
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of the
city
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.
Geography
It has 43,937 inhabitants in 2016.
Administrative divisions
The district consists of Diaosong, Mengli, Dahua, Dipu, Renmei, Dazhu and Huamei Village.
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Government institutions
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Radiation Monitoring Center
Education
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Cheng Shiu University
Cheng Shiu University (CSU; ) is a private university located in Niaosong District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
History
Established in 1965, it was founded by three friends, Lee Cheng-Sheng (李金盛), Gong Junke, and Zheng Junyuan. It was initially n ...
Tourist attractions
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Chengcing Lake
Chengcing Lake (), also known as the Cheng Ching Lake, Dabei Lake (大貝湖), or Toapi Lake () in Taiwanese, is an artificial lake located in Niaosong, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The lake is not far from downtown Kaohsiung and the major suburban dist ...
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Chengcing Lake Baseball Stadium
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Dharma Drum Mountain
Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM; ) is an international Buddhist spiritual, cultural, and educational foundation founded by late Chan master Sheng-yen (1931 – 2009). The center focuses on educating the public in Buddhism with the goal of improving th ...
Zi Yun Temple (法鼓山紫云寺)
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Kaohsiung Grand Hotel
The Kaohsiung Grand Hotel () is a hotel located in Niaosong District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The hotel is located next to the Chengcing Lake. The Grand Hotel is a sister hotel of the main Grand Hotel in Taipei City, the Taipei Grand Hotel
The ...
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Niaosong Wetland Park
Notable natives
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Huang Shihui, writer
See also
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District (Taiwan)
Districts are administrative subdivisions of the Republic of China (Taiwan)'s special municipalities of the second level and provincial cities of the third level formerly under its provinces. There are two types of district in the administrativ ...
References
External links
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{{Districts in Taiwan
Districts of Kaohsiung