Mingjian Township
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mingjian, Mingchien, Mingjyan, Bêng-kan, Bîng-kan, Làm-á, Nama
Mingjian Township is a rural township in western Nantou County, Taiwan. It is the second smallest township in the county, after Jiji Township.
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Vinony's link graph records 193 inbound references to Mingjian Township, and connects out to pinyin, Taiwan and Chinese.
The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Townships in Nantou County.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
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
- Chinese.title
- Mingjian Township
- Chinese.c
- 名間鄉
- Chinese.hp
- Míngjiān Xiāng
- Chinese.tp
- Míngjiān Siang
- Chinese.w
- Ming2-chien1 Hsiang1
- Chinese.poj
- Bêng-kan-hiong
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- township of Taiwan
- Country
- Taiwan
- Located in
- Nantou County
- Population
- 34731
- Area
- 83
- Elevation
- 235
- Time zone
- Taiwan time
- Shares border with
- Erhshui Township
- Image
- StreetOfMingchien.JPG
- Households
- 13536
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- Commons category
- Mingjian Township, Nantou County
- postal code
- 551
- external data available at URL
- photo.ardswc.gov.tw/wikidataset/Q708728
- male population
- 18289
- female population
- 16442
- native label
- Bêng-kan
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mingjian Township” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations
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