Shanlin District (; Taiwanese: ''Sam-nâ-khu'' ), formerly known as Lâm-á-sian (楠梓仙) before 1901, later named Suannsamna (山杉林), is a suburban

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

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 ...

in southern

Taiwan 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 ...

. Shanlin borders

Jiasian District Jiasian District, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency () is a rural district in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Located far from the coast, the township is regarded as a gateway to Taiwan's Central Mountain Range. History Qing Dyna ...

to the north, Liougui District to the east, and is adjacent to

Meinong District Meinong District (WG: Meinung, Hakka: 瀰濃 Mî-nùng, ) is a Hakka district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Meinong is one of the four districts in Kaohsiung that is the central focus of Hakka cultural development, the others being Jiasian District, Sha ...

and

Cishan District Cishan District (also spelled Qishan; ) is a suburban district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 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 popul ...

to the south. It shares its western border with Neimen District and connects to

Nanhua District Nanhua District () is a rural district of about 8,209 residents in Tainan, Taiwan. It has two reservoirs, the larger one being the Nanhua Reservoir. It is the largest district in the city. History After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to th ...

Tainan City Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the " prefectural capital" for its over 260-year histo ...

to the northwest. The majority of the district's residents are Hakka people, constituting approximately 63% of the total population, with additional villages of

Hoklo The Hoklo people () are a Han Chinese subgroup who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, or trace their ancestry to southeastern Fujian in China, and known by various related terms such as Banlam people (), Minnan people, Fujianese people or ...

and indigenous Taivoan people.

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, Shanlin 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 ...

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

of the

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

. In August 2019, some residents living in high-risk areas of Shanlin District were evacuated from their homes after heavy rain and flash flooding.

Quick facts

Area Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...

: 104.0036 km². *

Population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...

: 10,961 people (October 2023) *

Divisions Division may refer to: Mathematics *Division (mathematics), the inverse of multiplication * Division algorithm, a method for computing the result of mathematical division Military *Division (military), a formation typically consisting of 10,000 t ...

: 7 urban villages 142 Neighborhoods *

Postal Code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or numerical digit, digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, inclu ...

: 846 *

Households A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is impo ...

: 4,717 (October 2023)

Administrative divisions

The district is divided into Shanlin, Muzi, Jilai, Xinzhuang, Shangping, Yuemei, Yuemei and Da-ai/Da'ai Village.

Education

High school

* Kaohsiung Municipal Shanlin National High School

Primary Schools

* Shanlin National Primary School * Yuemeimin Primary School * Xinzhuang National Primary School * Shangping National Primary School * Chilai National Elementary School * Kaohsiung City Bananhua Tribe Elementary School in Da'ai Village

Tourist attractions

* Baishueicyuan Waterfall *

Gourd Sculpture Museum Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly ''Cucurbita'' and ''Lagenaria''. The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. Many gourds have ...

Shanlin Confucius Temple The term shanlin () was frequently used to describe bandits in northeast China from the time of the Qing dynasty, because they knew the local wooded and mountainous terrain very well. Most operated in a fairly small district and took pains to main ...

(新庒孔聖廟) *

Sunlight Siaolin Sunlight is the portion of the electromagnetic radiation which is emitted by the Sun (i.e. solar radiation) and received by the Earth, in particular the visible light perceptible to the human eye as well as invisible infrared (typically perc ...

: A Taivoan community from

Siaolin Village Siaolin Village (), also spelled Xiaolin Village, is a village in Jiasian District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is mostly agricultural and home to one of the largest communities of the Taivoan people. In 2009, Typhoon Morakot brought unprecedented ra ...

in Jiasian District formerly, relocated after

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 ...

in 2009. It currently developed with a focus on indigenous tourism and agricultural products. * Yuemei Leshan Temple (月眉樂善堂) * Yuemei Bridge

Transportation

A shuttle taxi system named '' Happy Taxi '' was introduced to both Yuemei Villages of the district on 27 May 2019, the first public transport in the district.

Notable natives

Lin Yu-fang Lin Yu-fang (; born 15 March 1951) is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. Lin was a Kuomintang legislator from 2008 to 2016 and the chairman of the Legislative Yuan's Diplomacy and National Defense Committee. Education Lin obtained ...

, member of

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for four-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a ...

(2008-2016)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Districts of Kaohsiung