Fangliao
Rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan
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::summary Rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| official_name | Fangliao Township |
| 枋寮鄉 | |
| settlement_type | Rural township |
| image_skyline | Fangliao Harbor (263700117).jpeg |
| image_caption | Harbor in Fangliao Township |
| image_map | Fangliao PT.svg |
| map_caption | Fangliao Township in Pingtung County |
| subdivision_type | Location |
| subdivision_name | Pingtung County, Taiwan |
| area_total_km2 | 58 |
| population_as_of | February 2024 |
| population_total | 22717 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| :: |
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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".
In 1875, Imperial commissioner Shen Baozhen, who had been charged with making arrangements to prevent the Japanese from occupying Chinese districts, began introducing reforms in government. Pangliau was incorporated into Hengchun District, which was created from the portion of Fongshan District south of a river slightly north of Pangliau.
Pangliau, 25 mi south of Takow (Kaohsiung), was the site where Japanese forces landed and completed the encirclement of Tainan during the 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan.
Geography
- Area: 57.73 km2
- Population: 22,717 (February 2024)
Climate
Fangliao has a tropical savanna climate, with warm to hot weather year-round, precipitation mainly occur during the wet season from May to September, typical of the rest of the Pingtung Plain.
|location = Fangliao Township |metric first = y |single line = y |Jan high C = 24.6 |Feb high C = 25.7 |Mar high C = 27.6 |Apr high C = 29.7 |May high C = 31.2 |Jun high C = 31.7 |Jul high C = 32.2 |Aug high C = 31.9 |Sep high C = 31.3 |Oct high C = 30.0 |Nov high C = 27.9 |Dec high C = 25.3 |year high C =
|Jan mean C = 20.2 |Feb mean C = 21.0 |Mar mean C = 23.1 |Apr mean C = 25.5 |May mean C = 27.4 |Jun mean C = 28.4 |Jul mean C = 28.8 |Aug mean C = 28.5 |Sep mean C = 27.8 |Oct mean C = 26.5 |Nov mean C = 24.2 |Dec mean C = 21.2 |year mean C =
|Jan low C = 16.8 |Feb low C = 17.5 |Mar low C = 19.7 |Apr low C = 22.6 |May low C = 24.7 |Jun low C = 25.9 |Jul low C = 26.3 |Aug low C = 26.0 |Sep low C = 25.4 |Oct low C = 23.9 |Nov low C = 21.6 |Dec low C = 17.9 |year low C =
|source 1 = Central Weather Bureau |date=August 2010
Administrative divisions
The township comprises 15 villages: Anle, Baosheng, Dazhuang, Deli, Fangliao, Longshan, Neiliao, Renhe, Taiyuan, Tianshi, Tunghai, Xinkai, Xinlong, Yuquan and Zhongliao.
Transportation
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Fangliao_Railway_Station.jpg" caption="TRA [[Fangliao Station"] ::
The township is served by Fangliao Station and Donghai Station of Taiwan Railway.
Popular culture
It was also the location for the filming of the second season of the American show Wipeout.
References
Bibliography
References
- [http://placesearch.moi.gov.tw/translate/Admin1000616.pdf 臺灣地區鄉鎮市區級以上行政區域名稱中英對照表] {{webarchive. link. (2012-03-25 Glossary of Names for Administrative Divisions. {{in lang). zh Accessed at [http://placesearch.moi.gov.tw/index_2.php Taiwan Geographic Names Information System website] {{webarchive. link. (2013-08-16 {{in lang). en. Ministry of the Interior. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- "Climate". [[Central Weather Bureau]].
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