Fangliao Township

Also known as Fangliao, Fangliau, Fanglyau

Fangliao Township is a rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Fangliao Township枋寮鄉
Settlement.settlement_type: Rural township
Settlement.image_skyline: Fangliao Harbor (263700117).jpeg
Settlement.image_caption: Harbor in Fangliao Township
Settlement.image_map: Fangliao PT.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Fangliao Township in Pingtung County
Settlement.subdivision_type: Location
Settlement.subdivision_name: Pingtung County, Taiwan
Settlement.area_total_km2: 58
Settlement.population_as_of: February 2024
Settlement.population_total: 22717
Settlement.population_density_km2

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Fangliao Township is a rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.

==History== In 1867, the village of Pangliau was located at the shore of a bay. American consul Charles Le Gendre, reporting on his 1867 visit to southern Formosa (see Formosa Expedition), wrote: "The products are rice and peanuts. Women pound the rice and till the fields, while the men are entirely taken up with fishing." The high mountains to the east were the "exclusive domain of the savage aborigines, who receive from the Chinese (or half-caste) population a certain share of their crops".