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Encyclopedia > Pingtung
Night Market, 2005. Photo by Michael Turton
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Night Market, 2005. Photo by Michael Turton

Pingtung City (Chinese: 屏東市; Pinyin: Píngdōngshì; Wade-Giles: P'ing-tung shih; Taiwanese: Pîn-tong-chhī) is the capital of Pingtung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Template:Dablick Taiwanese (Traditional Chinese: 台語, 台灣話; Pinyin: TáiyÇ”, Táiwānhuà; Taiwanese Pe̍h-oÄ“-jÄ«: Tâi-gí or Tâi-oân-oÄ“) is a dialect of Min Nan spoken by about 70% of the Taiwanese population. ... Pingtung County (屏東縣, pinyin: Píngdōng Xiàn) is a county in Southern Taiwan. ... Taiwan Province can refer to an existing administrative division under the government of the Republic of China or the claimed 23rd province of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Motto: None Anthem: National Anthem of the ROC Capital Taipei City (de facto) Nanjing (de jure) 1 Largest city Taipei City Official language(s) Mandarin (Guoyü) Government • President • Vice President • Premier Multiparty democracy Chen Shui-bian Annette Lu Su Tseng-chang Establishment • Xinhai Revolution Declared  October 10, 1911 Established  January...


Geography

Pingtung is located in Pingtung County which is the southern most county in Taiwan. It is located East of Kaohsiung and Fengshan. The city is centered between the Western coast and the Eastern mountain range. Summers tend to be scorchingly hot and the winters are fairly cool, it never snows. The local Taiwanese consider Pingtung a suburb although it is very developed and dense by Western standards. Abbreviation: Kaohsiung (高雄) City nickname: The Harbor City Capital District Linya Dist. ... Fongshan City (鳳山市) is located in southern Kaohsiung County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. ...


External link

  • Government Website

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Pingtung County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (337 words)
Pingtung County (Traditional Chinese: 屏東縣; Hanyu Pinyin: Píngdōng Xiàn; Tongyong Pinyin: Píngdong Siàn; Wade-Giles: P'ing-tung Hsien; POJ: Pîn-tang-kōan) is a county in Southern Taiwan.
Pingtung is famous for the beautiful sight of Kenting National Park.
Pingtung City, the biggest city in Pingtung County, also known as "the monkey" (阿猴), was where the the Plain Aboriginals lived.
Pingtung English Fellowship - Pingtung,Taiwan, R.O.C. (0 words)
Pingtung English Fellowship was established in March of 1993 by veteren SBC missionaries Jerry & Sandy Cole and Steve & Linda Moorhouse.
Their vision was to provide Pingtung's foreign, English-speaking community a venue for worshiping in English while at the same time use the English service as an "outreach" tool to the English-speaking and "English-learning" Chinese community.
Pingtung English Fellowship formally began on March 14, 1993.
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