Longci District

22.9546°N 120.383323°E / 22.9546; 120.383323

Longci 龍崎區 Tatsuzaki
District
Longci District
The former Township Hall in Longci
龍崎區公所 Longci District Tainan City
Longci District in Tainan City
Location	Tainan, Taiwan
Area
• Total	64 km2 (25 sq mi)
Population  (May 2022)
• Total	3,634
• Density	57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Website	longci.tainan.gov.tw/en/

Longci District Office

Longci District^{[1][2][3][4][5]} (Chinese: 龍崎區; Hanyu Pinyin: Lóngqí Qū; Tongyong Pinyin: Lóngcí Cyu; Wade–Giles: Lung²-ch'i² Ch'ü¹; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liông-kiā-khu), alternatively spelled Longqi. is a rural district of about 3,634 residents in Tainan, Taiwan.

History

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Longci was organized as a rural township of Tainan County. On 25 December 2010, Tainan County was merged with Tainan City and Longci was upgraded to a district of the city.

Geography

Longci District borders Sinhua District and Zuojhen District to the north; Neimen District, Kaohsiung to the east; Guanmiao District to the west; and Tianliao District, Kaohsiung to the south.^[6]

Administrative divisions

The district consists of Qiding, Tuqi, Zhongkeng, Nankeng, Niupu, Daping, Longchuan and Shicao Village.^[7]

Tourist attractions

• Cingshuei Temple
• Husing Mountain Resort Park
• Nioupu Village
• Oolong Pond^[8]

References

1. "District Office". Tainan City Government Global Website. 2016-06-03. Retrieved 23 July 2019. Longci District Office
2. "Geography". Tainan City Longci District Office. Retrieved 23 July 2019. Located southeast of Tainan City on the hilly area of Alishan and occupying a total area of 62.322km2, Longci District neighbors Sinhua District and Zuojhen District to the north, borders Neimen District of Kaohsiung City to the east, links up with Guanmiao District to the west, and connects with Tianliao District of Kaohsiung City to the south.
3. Longci (Variant - V) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4. Cheng Hung-ta; Jake Chung (17 April 2018). "Taiwan could become hyper-aged within eight years". Taipei Times. New Taipei City's Pingsi District (平溪), Kaohsiung's Tianliao District (田寮), Tainan's Zuojhen District (左鎮), Miaoli County's Shihtan Township (獅潭) and Tainan's Longci District (龍崎) were the five cities and townships with the highest elderly populations, it said, adding that elderly people make up 28.57 percent of the population in Pingsi, 27.84 percent in Tianliao, 27.37 percent in Zuojhen, 26.47 percent in Shihtan and 25.97 percent in Longci.
5. 1.7-鄉鎮市區戶口數 [Population for Township and District]. Ministry of the Interior (in Chinese (Taiwan) and English). August 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020. 龍崎區 Longci District 64.0814 1,515 3,795 2,052 1,743 117.73 2.50 59
6. "Geography". Longci District Tainan City. 2018-06-25. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
7. "2018 Local Elections". Archived from the original on 2018-12-05. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
8. "Longci Township". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-09.

External links

• Official website