Mingjian Township
Mingjian Township is a rural township in western Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the second smallest township in the county, after Jiji Township.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Mingjian Township名間鄉
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Rural township
- Settlement.image_skyline
- StreetOfMingchien.JPG
- Settlement.image_map
- Nt mj.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Mingjian Township in Nantou County
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Location
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Nantou County, Taiwan
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 83
- Settlement.population_as_of
- February 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 36127
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.other_name
- Nama
Article
6 sectionsContents
- Name and etymology
- History
- Administrative divisions
- Transportation
- Notable natives
- References
Mingjian Township is a rural township in western Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the second smallest township in the county, after Jiji Township.
==Name and etymology== The name Mingjian originates from a Japanese transliteration of the original Taiwanese Hokkien name, Làm-á (), with literal meaning "a very wet place". In 1920, during Japanese rule, the name was changed to which closely matched the Taiwanese pronunciation but with different kanji (Chinese characters) for the name. This written form was retained after the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945; the characters are pronounced Bêng-kan and Míngjiān in Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese, respectively.