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Cihtong Township
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Cihtong Township or Citong Township is a rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan. It has a population total of 27,538 () and an area of 50.8502 square kilometres.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Cihtong Township
- Settlement.other_name
- Citong
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Rural township
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 647, Taiwan, 雲林縣莿桐鄉興桐村 - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Farm fields with cover crops in the winter in Cihtong
- Settlement.image_blank_emblem
- File:莿桐鄉_CIHTONG_TOWNSHIP.png
- Settlement.blank_emblem_type
- CIHTONG TOWNSHIP
- Settlement.image_map
- Cihtung.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Cihtong Township in Yunlin County
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Location
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Yunlin County, Taiwan
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 51
- Settlement.population_as_of
- February 2023
- Settlement.population_total
- 27538
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Chinese.title
- Citong Township
- Chinese.tp
- Cìhtóng Siang
- Chinese.p
- Cìtóng Xiāng
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- township of Taiwan
- Country
- Taiwan
- Located in
- Yunlin County
- Population
- 27286
- Area
- 51
- Elevation
- 43
- Time zone
- Taiwan time
- Shares border with
- Hsichou Township
- Households
- 10161
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- Commons category
- Cihtong Township, Yunlin County
- postal code
- 647
- external data available at URL
- photo.ardswc.gov.tw/wikidataset/Q710249
- male population
- 14100
- female population
- 13186
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name
- Geography
- Administrative divisions
- Economy
- References
- External links
Cihtong Township or Citong Township is a rural township in Yunlin County, Taiwan. It has a population total of 27,538 () and an area of 50.8502 square kilometres.
==Name== Cihtong was named after Cihtong Lane (). Before the Qing Dynasty era, Erythrina flowers () flourished in the then-unpopulated area. The first settlers chose a small lane there to establish a village, which had flowers spread throughout its length.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cihtong Township” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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