Tianliao District () is a suburban

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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 ...

History

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the

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in 1945, Tianliao was organized as a rural township of

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

of the

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Administrative divisions

The district consists of Lupu, Nanan, Datong, Tianliao, Qixing, Chongde, Xide, Sanhe, Guting and Xinxing Village.https://www.cec.gov.tw/pc/en/TV/nm64000002200000000.html

Tourist attractions

* Agongdian Reservoir * Chaoyuan Temple (朝元寺) * Danantian Fude Temple (大南天福德祠) * Lyu Family Ancient House * Mount Matou * Narrow Sky * Rihyue Temple (日月禪寺) * Shihmuru * Shihzueizai Pavilion * Tianliao Moon World

Notable natives

Su Jain-rong Su Jain-rong (; born 12 November 1961) is a Taiwanese politician. Education Su obtained his master's degree in economics from National Chung Hsing University and doctoral degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University in the United Sta ...

, Minister of

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