Shoufeng Township
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Shoufeng Township is a rural Township in Hualien County, Taiwan. The township sits in the north segment of East Rift Valley between Taiwan's Central Range and Coastal Mountain Range near the Pacific Ocean. The Township is best known as home to National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), a national research university and famous tourist attraction in Eastern Taiwan, where is Taiwan's representative university town.
Key facts
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- Settlement.official_name
- Shoufeng Township壽豐鄉
- Settlement.other_name
- Kotobuki
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Rural township
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Taiwan 2009 HuaLien Rice Paddy at Foot of Mountain FRD 6130 Book Back Cover.jpg
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- Rice Paddy with the Coastal Mountain Range in the background
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- Shoufeng HL.svg
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- Shoufeng Township in Hualien County
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- Location
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- Hualien County, Taiwan
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 218
- Settlement.population_as_of
- March 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 17106
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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- Chinese.title
- Shoufeng Township
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- 壽豐鄉
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- Shòufēng Xiāng
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Indigenous Area
- Country
- Taiwan
- Located in
- Hualien County
- Population
- 16709
- Area
- 218
- Elevation
- 156
- Time zone
- Taiwan time
- Shares border with
- Fengbin Township
- Image
- Taiwan Railway Administration Shoufong Station view from the platform.jpg
- Households
- 7654
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- Commons category
- Shoufeng Township, Hualien County
- postal code
- 974
- external data available at URL
- photo.ardswc.gov.tw/wikidataset/Q707988
- male population
- 8815
- female population
- 7894
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Administrative divisions
- Demographics
- Education
- Higher education
- Mandarin education
- Tourist attractions
- Transportation
- References
- External links
Shoufeng Township is a rural Township in Hualien County, Taiwan. The township sits in the north segment of East Rift Valley between Taiwan's Central Range and Coastal Mountain Range near the Pacific Ocean. The Township is best known as home to National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), a national research university and famous tourist attraction in Eastern Taiwan, where is Taiwan's representative university town.
==Geography== left|thumb|Map of western Shoufeng area (1944) left|thumb|Map of southern Shoufeng area (1944) A large part of the township is located centered on the Huadong Valley north of where the Shoufeng River empties into the Hualien River. The township extends eastward over the Hai'an Range to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shoufeng Township” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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