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22-645: Anping District is a district of Tainan , Taiwan . In March 2012, it was named one of the Top 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan. It is home to 64,408 people according to the 2020 census. The older place name of Tayouan derives from the ethnonym of a nearby Taiwanese aboriginal tribe, and was written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously as Taiouwang , Tayowan , etc. In his translations of Dutch records, missionary William Campbell used

44-474: A county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of Qing dynasty . The first administrative divisions named "county" ( 縣 ) was first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With

66-622: A population of over two million can grant some extra privileges in local autonomy that was designed for special municipalities . This type of counties are often called quasi-municipalities ( 準直轄市 ). This term applied to New Taipei and Taoyuan before they became special municipalities . There are currently 13 counties: Under Article 9 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China , regulated by

88-436: A type of division exclusively under the five remaining provincial cities : Kaohsiung, Keelung, Taichung, Tainan, and Taipei. When Taipei was promoted to a special municipality by the central government in 1967, several townships surrounding the city were merged into Taipei City and reorganized as its districts. Afterwards, through another reorganization in 1990, the 12 current districts were formed. In addition, Kaohsiung,

110-635: The Anping Bridge in Quanzhou , Fujian . Soon after Qing rule was established in 1683, the name "Taiwan" ( 臺灣 ) was officially used to refer to the whole island with the establishment of Taiwan Prefecture . The history of Anping dates back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company occupied a "high sandy down" called Tayouan and built Fort Zeelandia . The Dutch moved their headquarters to Tayouan after leaving

132-644: The Japanese prefectural cities were reformed to provincial cities and are not a part of counties. Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. In late 1949, the government of the Republic of China lost the Chinese Civil War and was relocated to Taipei , Taiwan . In 1950,

154-772: The Pescadores in 1624. Due to silting, the islet has joined with mainland Taiwan. Koxinga 's army brought an end to the Dutch colonial period via the Siege of Fort Zeelandia . In the Japanese period , the history of trade between China and Japan unfolded at Anping. According to the 1904 census, the city's population was 5,972. The district consists of Jincheng, Yuguang, Jianping, Yiping, Huaping, Pingtong, Wenping, Guoping, Yuping, Yizai, Pingan, Tianfei and Wangcheng Village. District (Taiwan) Districts are administrative subdivisions of Taiwan's special municipalities of

176-578: The Republic of China (Taiwan) . Under the administrative structure of Taiwan, it is with the same level of a provincial city . The counties were formerly under the jurisdiction of provinces, but the provinces were streamlined and effectively downsized to non-self-governing bodies in 1998, in 2018 all provincial governmental organs were formally abolished. Counties along with former " provincial cities " which alternately designated as simply "Cities", are presently regarded as principal subdivisions directed by

198-539: The Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure — in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of

220-704: The central government of Taiwan. Hsien have existed since the Warring States period , and were set up nation-wide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when

242-466: The 1900s, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule . After World War II , nine out of eleven prefectural cities established by the Japanese government were reformed into provincial cities. These were Changhua , Chiayi , Hsinchu , Kaohsiung , Keelung , Pingtung , Taichung , Tainan , and Taipei . The wards ( 区 ku ) and towns ( 町 machi ) under those cities were merged into larger districts. At

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264-553: The counties in Taiwan were reorganized. Counties in populous western Taiwan were split into two to three counties. This pushed the number of counties up to 16. After the war, the government only controlled a few offshore islands of mainland China . Among them are two of the 67 counties of the original Fujian Province : Kinmen and Lienchiang . The number of counties under jurisdiction, 16 in Taiwan and 2 in Fujian, remained stable until

286-664: The early 1990s. Following the democratic reforms in the early 1990s, more proposals of administrative division reforms were widely discussed and ultimately caused some populous counties be reformed to special municipalities in the 2010 and 2014. These counties are: Currently, the counties are established according to the Local Government Act under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior . This act also endorses some special articles that grants counties with

308-540: The increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missions in China first romanized the term as hien . Taiwan was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895. The hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan under Japanese rule . By September 1945, Taiwan

330-465: The largest city in southern Taiwan, was promoted to a special municipality in 1979. Siaogang Township was merged into Siaogang District . In December 2010, four new special municipalities were established, namely Kaohsiung, New Taipei , Taichung, and Tainan. Subsequently, all the county-administered cities and townships in Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan, and Taipei counties were reformed as districts of

352-699: The mayors, with four years per term. On 4 February 2014, six districts were reclassified as "Special Municipal Mountain Indigenous District" ( Chinese : 直轄市山地原住民區 ; pinyin : Zhíxiáshì Shāndì Yuánzhùmín Qū , shortened as "Mountain Indigenous District" ( 山地原住民區 ; Shāndì Yuánzhùmín Qū )): Wulai in New Taipei, Fuxing in Taoyuan, Heping in Taichung, along with Namasia , Maolin , and Taoyuan in Kaohsiung. In Taiwan, districts are

374-415: The new Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan, and New Taipei cities, respectively. Their names, nevertheless, remained the same. The same thing was done to Taoyuan on 25 December 2014, with the addition of 13 new districts. These municipalities and provincial cities use "district administrative centers" to serve residents of these districts. The directors of these districts and administrative centers are appointed by

396-414: The only subdivisions of special municipalities and provincial cities . Currently, there are 164 districts and 6 mountain indigenous districts in the country. Colors indicate the common language status of Hakka and Formosan languages within each division. County (Taiwan) A county , constitutionally known as a hsien , is a de jure second-level administrative division unit in

418-569: The same time, the districts ( 郡 kun ) under prefectures were also reformed as county-controlled districts. In August 1950, another administrative division reform was undertaken, leading to a reduction in the size of counties and all townships becoming directly administered by counties. County-controlled districts were all made defunct in this reform. At the same time, provincial cities including Changhua, Chiayi, Hsinchu, and Pingtung were downgraded to county-administered cities , of which certain districts also became defunct. This made districts

440-522: The second level and provincial cities of the third level formerly under its provinces. There are two types of district in the administrative scheme: Ordinary districts are governed directly by the municipality/city government, with district administrators appointed by mayors to four-year terms. The mountain indigenous district is a local government body with elected district chiefs as well as district council serving four-year terms. The first administrative divisions entitled "districts" were established in

462-417: The variant Tayouan and wrote that Taoan and Taiwan also occur. As Dutch spelling varied greatly at the time (see: History of Dutch orthography ), other variants may be seen. The name was also transliterated into Chinese characters variously as 臺窩灣 , 大灣 , 臺員 , 大員 , 大圓 and 梯窩灣 . After the Dutch were ousted c.  1661 by Koxinga , Han immigrants renamed the area "Anping" after

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484-410: Was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ). After the retrocession to the China on 25 October 1945, the prefectures were reformed into eight counties ( 縣 ) with the same name under Taiwan Province of the Republic of China . Their roman spellings were also changed to reflect the official language shift from Japanese to Mandarin Chinese , but characters remained the same. Note that most of

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