Caotun Township

Also known as Caotun, Tsautuen, Ts'aot'un, Tsautwun, Chhau-tun, Tshau-tun

thumb|Downtown Caotun Caotun Township, formerly transliterated as Tsaotun Township, is an urban township in the northwest of Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the largest township in Taiwan by population.

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Settlement.official_name: Caotun Township草屯鎮
Settlement.settlement_type: Urban township
Settlement.image_skyline: TsaotunOldStreet1.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: The old town of Caotun
Settlement.image_map: Nt ct.png
Settlement.map_caption: Caotun Township in Nantou County
Settlement.subdivision_type: Location
Settlement.subdivision_name: Nantou County, Taiwan
Settlement.government_type: Urban township
Settlement.area_total_km2: 104
Settlement.population_as_of: February 2023
Settlement.population_total: 96838
Chinese.title: Caotun Township
Chinese.c: 草屯鎮
Chinese.hp: Cǎotún Zhèn
Chinese.w: Ts'ao3-t'un2 Chen4
Chinese.poj: Chháu-tūn-tìn
Chinese.phfs: Tshó-thùn-tsṳ́n

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Wikidata facts

Country: Taiwan
Located in: Taichung County
Population: 97445
Area: 104
Elevation: 231
Time zone: Taiwan time
Shares border with: Fenyuan Township
Image: CommercialDistrictOfTsaotun.JPG
Households: 37837

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Commons category: Caotun Township, Nantou
postal code: 542
external data available at URL: photo.ardswc.gov.tw/wikidataset/Q708408
male population: 48621
female population: 48824

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Notable natives
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thumb|Downtown Caotun Caotun Township, formerly transliterated as Tsaotun Township, is an urban township in the northwest of Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the largest township in Taiwan by population.

==History== The area was historically known as Chháu-ê-tun () with the present name adopted under Japanese rule in 1920.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caotun Township” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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