Cishan District (also spelled Qishan; ) is a suburban

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in northeastern

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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. It has an area of 94.61 square kilometers, or 36.53 square miles. The population of Cishan is 34,372 as of October 2023. It is the 19th most populous district in Kaohsiung.

History

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

in 1945, Cishan was organized as an urban 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 ...

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

of the

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. In 2009, then Cishan Township was affected by

Typhoon Morakot Typhoon Morakot, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kiko, was the wettest and deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history. The eighth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Morakot wrought catastrophic d ...

Geography

*Area: *Population: 34,372 (October 2023)

Administrative divisions

The district comprises 21 villages: *1 Dalin　　 *2 Zhongzheng *3 Yuanfu　　 *4 Tungping *5 Yonghe *6 Ruiji *7 Zhufeng　　 *8 Meizhou　　　　　　 *9 Taiping　　 *10 Dade　　　 *11 Sanxie　　 *12 Tungchang *13 Guangfu *14 Kunzhou　 *15 Shangzhou *16 Dashan　　　　 *17 Zhongzhou　 *18 Nanzhou　　 *19 Xinguang *20 Nansheng *21 Zhongliao　

Education

* Fortune Institute of Technology

Tourist attractions

* Cishan Wude Hall * Qishan Living Cultural Park * Qishan Station * Cishan Tianhou Temple (旗山天后宮) * Cishan Old Street * Jhongshan Park * Mount Ciwei * Mount Jhongliao Leisure and Agriculture Area * Stone Arches Corridor * Wulong Fongsan Temple (五龍山鳳山寺)

Transportation

A railroad was operated by Taiwan Sugar Company for carrying sugarcanes, cargo, and passenger service from 1910 to 1978 . Trains took more than 100 minutes from Cishan to Jiuqutang railway station, where passengers and goods could be transferred to trains operated by

Taiwan Railway Administration Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) was a governmental agency in Taiwan which operated Taiwan Railway from 1948 to 2023. It managed, maintained, and operated conventional passenger and freight railway services on of track. Passenger traffic ...

. The track was removed in 1982 and the station building at Cishan was preserved as a museum. Several major highways pass Cishan: * Provincial Highway 3: Neimen-Cishan-Ligang (Pingtung County) * Provincial Highway 22: Nanzhi-Yanchao-Cisan-Gaoshu (Pingtung County) * Provincial Highway 29: Jiaxian-Shanlin-Cishan-Dashu * National Freeway 10 links Cishan and Zuoying. It connects with National Freeway 3 and National Freeway 1 at Yanchao Junction and Dinjing Junction (Zuoying) respectively Bus transportation was provided by Kaohsiung Transportation and EDA Bus. Cishan Bus Station is the main transportation hub of Cishan.

Notable natives

Chen Chien-jen Chen Chien-jen (; born 6 June 1951) is a Taiwanese epidemiologist, geneticist, and politician who served as Vice President of Taiwan from 2016 to 2020 and Premier of Taiwan from 2023 to 2024 under President Tsai Ing-wen. After earning a d ...

Vice President of the Republic of China The vice president of the Republic of China, commonly referred to as the vice president of Taiwan, is the second-highest constitutional office of the government in Taiwan, after the president, and ranks first in the presidential line of success ...

(Taiwan) (2016–2020) * Lo Ching-lung, baseball player * Lu Li'an, English professor and

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

politician * Ovid Tzeng, Minister of Council for Cultural Affairs (2011–2012) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-6550512-kizan-2115-i.jpg, Map of Cishan (labeled as KIZAN) area (1944) File:Txu-oclc-6557994-index-454.jpg, Map of the region including Cishan (labeled as CHʻI-SHAN (KIZAN) ) (1951)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Districts of Kaohsiung